It's a Dawg Eat Dawg World

I know I promised the dead sea salt story next...and it's still coming...but I felt a need to share a story about a very bizarre incident from a few years ago.

I was perusing my favorite message board (theboreds.com) and came across a link to an article about a man from Tyler, Texas. His name is Christopher Lee McCuin.

First of all, notice the deliberate use of the middle name. The media includes all three names when reporting stories on such nefariously macabre individuals, so as to spare the other three Chris McCuin's in Tyler from being confused with the Christoper Lee McCuin. The last thing these hypothetically hard-working, God-fearing family men need is to be mistaken for America's Most Wanted next time they use a credit card at 7-11.

You would expect to hear about a story like this coming out of either Germany or Florida, but the fact that this originates from Texas adds a new wrinkle to the unique fabric of the situation. Another queer tidbit is the name itself. McCuin is what? Irish maybe? It just sort of sounds like a guy who's best friend is named Gordon Wellington. And finally, the nature of his crime falls in the arena of whitey, almost exclusively.

McCuin was arrested after police found him possibly preparing to eat the body parts of his dead girlfriend, Jana Shearer aged 21. He was also charged with stabbing his ex-wife's boyfriend, William Veasley, 42.

According to reports, Shearer's mother was told by McCuin to "look in the garage" where she discovered the mutilated body of her daughter. She then flagged down a police officer on the road.

McCuin called 911 after the mother left the house. According to reports, he told the dispatcher that he was boiling Shearer's body parts and preparing to eat them. When police got to his home, they discovered one of Shearer's ears boiling in a pot, and an unnamed piece of her flesh on the kitchen table, with silverware placed beside it. The rest of her body had several "chunks" missing from it... (Wikipedia.)

I don't really wanna comment on the crime itself. That's a discussion that I might get into when I decide to do a 6-part blog miniseries. I'm still getting my feet wet here. I will say this. The most important issue in this entire situation is that this guy is black.

I have to admit, I am impressed with the strides in equality made by our modern culture. Where sexually repressed/physically abused white males previously held a corner in the market, this brother is shattering through the glass ceiling of ghoulishly violent crime. I say bravo. Dr. King is probably looking down and smiling as a single tear wells up out his eye.

This in the same year as the United States elects the first African American president, Oprah is the highest paid person on television, Will Smith is one of the top-grossing men in Hollywood, Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete in the world, and 9 our of 10 Billboard's top songs of 2008 are performed by African American artists. And racism is still a problem in our society?

The next time Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton gets behind a podium during black history month and waxes on about how far the black man has come, but how much further they have to go in order to overcome their disadvantages through history...somebody please just stand up and throw a fucking rotten tomato right in their grill, and boo them off stage.

love,
Bobby

(P.S. I personally think the triple entendre in this blurb title is quite clever.)