Posted by
Rogue Historian on Friday, March 09, 2007 6:07:01 PM
A trio of Denver teens have been charged in the gruesome murder of one of their mothers. The victim, who was allowing her daughter's seventeen year old boyfriend, Bryan Grove, to live in her home, purportedly prompted her own multiple stabbing by uttering a racial slur during an argument with Mr. Grove. Ms. Damm's prior actions notwithstanding, Grove took umbrage, plunging one knife through his landlady's neck and then retrieving a larger knife to complete the job. It is troubling to consider Mr. Grove's motivation on two levels. First, if Ms. Damm did indeed commit the verbal offense, did it in any way justify her murder; second, and more importantly, if Grove invented the slight to diminish his culpability, what does that say about the younger generation's perception of "equal and opposite force?"
According to Grove's own testimony, as reported in the Denver Post,
"The fight escalated until Grove said Damm shouted that she wished her daughter had never been born because then she wouldn't have "this black guy hanging all over me," according to the affidavit.
Enraged, Grove said, he choked Damm to unconsciousness, then grabbed a small knife and thrust it into her neck so deeply that he couldn't pull it back out, the document says.
Grove said he then went to get a large kitchen knife and stabbed her several more times in the neck, twisting the knife each time, until she stopped breathing, the affidavit states. "
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5379949
Grove's "defense" reflects a logical extension of media-fueled hysteria, whereby all blacks in America are subject to systemmic racism and all white people potential targets of retribution. It isn't likely that a woman who allowed a young black man to live in her home entertained deeply racist ideas, so Grove either invented the slight or allowed it to trump the obvious. Either way, America may finally be reaping the rewards of Rodney King and O.J.