Julia Hudson Finally Sets her MySpace Profile to Private

I wonder why it took her so long?

Story Debunks Severed Hand Rumor For Julian King

Since not many of the major papers have reported on or debunked the rumor, I found only one site that debunks it. Here's the story.

Better Julia Hudson Press Conference

I'll Let it Speak for Itself. Julia Press Conference

Why wasn't Julia a "real" mother to her own son. Another black child being raised by a grandparent.

William Balfour MySpace Page

He was arrested on 10/25/08 and yet someone logged onto his page the next day.

Balfour MySpace Page

I hope the police are checking that out.

Hudson Funeral To Be Private, But Should It Be?

I have no idea what its like to have three family members brutally murdered. Of all the victims of that violence, I know that Julian King was the most innocent.

I wish Jennifer had the courage of Mamie Till. When her son was brutally murdered in Mississippi, Mamie didn't hide his battered and bruised body. Instead she wanted the world to see what racism could do to a child.

I wished Jennifer and her family had the same sort of strength to allow the funerals of her relatives to be public so that the entire world can see what crime in the black community can do to child.

I cannot imagine the anguish that Julian King had to go through before someone took a gun and SHOT A 7-YR-OLD-CHILD in the head multiple times. What sort of animal was running our streets that can do that to a child?. Mamie Till didn't have celebrity status to highlight the violence that was imposed upon her son. It's nice that Jennifer Hudson has established ANOTHER fund, but in my opinion, what the black community needs is an IN YOUR FACE REALITY CHECK!

Yes, Jennifer and Julia Hudson have the right to privacy. But what happened to their family has made it public. They right now have the type of publicity and center stage that money cannot buy. Just like Mamie Till showed the world and screamed the loudest, "LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO MY SON", Jennifer has the opportunity to point at Julian's casket and shout, 'LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO A CHLD"!

And until the black community has an up front in your face opportunity to really see what violence does, we will shed a few tears, get a bunch of stuffed animals for a so-called memorial and yet days later we will return to doing what we've been doing because in order to change, we need a shock moment to embed itself forever in our memory to say and mean, "enough is enough"!

Profiting off of the Hudson Murders

There appears to be two entities working on getting "donations" in regards to the victims in the Hudson murder case.

First off, I am no longer a spring chicken so my thought processes go along with my middle age. But even with that, I was preplexed as to the request made by a "friend" of the Hudson family to get Tommie Harris to donate a jersey for a memorial for Jason Hudson. Huh????? I mean its not as if Jason was a future linebacker or died in a tragedy related to football. That jersey may just end up on the back of someone else. Here's that story.

There also seems to be some competing "memorial" funds being set up. The first is the Hudson-King Domestic Violence Protection Fund


Now I'm seeing a second fund being set up as Hudson-King Fund.



With the police now stating that Julian was killed in his uncle's SUV, what could have prompted him to go outside in his sleeping attire (due to his size it makes sense for him to sleep in basketball type shorts and a t-shirt as pajamas)? What would have cause him not to scream and holler as soon as he was outside to attract some sort of attention? Was there someone who was very familiar to him in the car already????

Don't Foget the State's Attorney Race

Everyone is aware that next Tuesday, Nov. 4, is the date to vote for president of the United States. And many of us will be taking that time to vote for Senator Barack Obama for president. But there is another election as important to those of us living in Cook County as the vote for President-and that is the vote for Cook County state's attorney.

According to the website of the current state's attorney, this is the description of the job: "The State's Attorney of Cook County is responsible for prosecuting all individuals charged with violating Illinois' criminal laws within the county. The State's Attorney ... may appoint assistant state's attorneys as his legal representatives. ... Under Illinois law, the State's Attorney is granted the exclusive authority to represent crime victims. ... The duty of a prosecutor is to seek justice, not merely to convict. ... In addition to his responsibilities for criminal prosecution, the State's Attorney is charged with enforcing many civil laws that protect abused children, the elderly, the disabled, and consumers as well as laws that promote the public interest in the environment and the provision of utility services. The State's Attorney also acts as legal counsel on civil law matters on behalf of Cook County government agencies and the county's elected officials."

When a person is arrested and charged with a crime, it is up to the State's Attorney's Office to prosecute. When the office is held by someone who doesn't give a hoot, then suspects can be tortured and made to give false confessions, like what we are currently seeing with the people who were tortured by those under the command of Jon Burge and when Richard J. Daley, the current mayor of Chicago, was state's attorney for Cook County. When people are arrested and held at Cook County Jail for years, it has a lot to do with the lack of creativity coming out of the State's Attorney's Office. We as a county are spending millions to house prisoners whose minor crime is that they can't come up with bail money. When the state's attorney takes years to finally bring someone to trial, what we have is a major waste of taxpayers dollars and continuous overcrowding at Cook County Jail.

Of the three candidates who are running, two are already members of the State's Attorney Office, Anita Alvarez and Thomas O'Brien. Neither of them has put forth a campaign that says their tenure in the office would be anything other than more of the same.

The third candidate is Tony Peraica. We all got to meet the feisty Mr. Peraica when he ran for Cook County board president. Say what you will about him, he is an energetic character with an in-your-face feistiness that says his term as state's attorney would be a change from the past. After watching the debates that aired between the three candidates, Mr. Peraica gets my vote.

Remember, vote on Nov. 4 and make sure you continue down the ballot to vote on the retention of judges. For a list of judges, who have been recommended for "yes" votes, visit my blog.