The Journal covers for dysfunction in the black community, again. UPDATED VERSION

By Donna Cole

The following is a tragic story from the Milwaukee Journal, "Officials identify girl in fatal crash." The story details an auto crash that claimed the life of a 10 year old girl. The car was driven by the child's mother. As many MediaPolitical readers know, I also micro blog on MediaPolitical's Facebook page. At approximately 10 pm on Dec. 27th, I blogged about another angle of this tragic story. Here is that entire Facebook post;

This is a tragic story and I am not trying to be flip at all, but I do have questions. This is a quote from the story;

"Brianna A. Johnson, 10, was restrained with a seat belt while her 22-year-old mother was driving a silver Pontiac Grand Am at high speed south on W. Atkinson Ave. around 2 a.m. The girl's 5-year-old sister in the back seat distracted the mother, asking about a toy she received ...for Christmas."

Do you notice anything ? I did. The mother is 22 and the daughter was 10. This child was conceived when was the mother was either 11 or 12.

While I have no personal knowledge of this case beyond media reports, I would be willing to bet my lucky nickel that the "father" was not 11 or 12 at the time of conception and I would also bet this "man" was never prosecuted for child sexual abuse or statutory rape.

I would also be willing to bet these "fathers" contribute nothing beyond the act of conception to these children. When I say contribute, leave aside money, I mean being an actual father.

This is another huge part of the dysfunction in areas of Milwaukee County that is never talked about. These young women do not become pregnant alone and the "fathers" are never prosecuted here, in what would be an open and shut case, one I could easily prosecute.

I think in most other parts of Wisconsin when a 12 year old girl delivers a baby, that some authorities might have a few questions as to who the father is. But, in Milwaukee County these rapes, which is what they are, are overlooked.

I would ask why the media doesn't ask these questions, but we all know why they don't.

Teen pregnancy rates in the county prove that teaching 5th graders to put a condom on a banana has not worked, perhaps putting these "men" who are the "fathers", and sex offenders, in prison for a long time might.

Of course, If I raised these questions, I would be told it is a "community" issue and that I do not understand the "community" so keep my nose out of it and shut my mouth. Which is what the Milwaukee County D.A. and the local media do on a daily basis.

I know, I am being too judgmental.

 At the end of this post, I linked to the Journal story.

 This morning, I was going to use this post as basis to expand on this subject of the mother's age and the age which she conceived the child. But then, something funny happened. I returned to the Journal story and I noticed that by 10 AM, Dec. 28th the age of the mother had been removed. Here is the side by side comparison of the original verses the edited paragraph.

"Brianna A. Johnson, 10, was restrained with a seat belt while her 22-year-old mother was driving a silver Pontiac Grand Am at high speed south on W. Atkinson Ave. around 2 a.m. The girl's 5-year-old sister in the back seat distracted the mother, asking about a toy she received ...for Christmas."

 Now, the re-edited version;

"Brianna A. Johnson, 10, was restrained with a seat belt while her mother was driving a silver Pontiac Grand Am at high speed south on W. Atkinson Ave. around 2 a.m. The girl's 5-year-old sister in the back seat distracted the mother, asking about a toy she received for Christmas."

 I know why the Journal did this, but I thought I would ask them their reason before I explain it. So, I sent the following email, at 11:36 AM, to Milwaukee Journal editor George Stanley, subject: Questions about your story editing;

Mr.Stanley, last night JSonline had a story by Gitte Laasby titled "Officials identify girl in fatal north side crash." This story stated that the mother's age was 22. This morning the mother's age was edited out. My question is simple, why ?
I am blogging on this subject and would appreciate the reason or I can speculate. I do have the original story copied.

Donna Cole @MediaPolitical

At 5:07 PM, I received this response from Mr. Stanley;

Took me a while to track this down.

An early version of the story was posted online. When the story was moved for the print edition, the news editor in charge at night questioned whether we were reporting the mother's name  accurately  because  the child was 10 years old. The copy desk checked and saw that the mother's age had been recorded as 22 in the police report. The news editor still was suspicious about whether the age had been recorded correctly, as reports can contain inaccurate data since everyone makes mistakes. He took it out, thinking there was a good chance it was a mistake and it wasn't essential to reporting how she drove into the truck and the accident killed the little girl.

 I am not buying the night editor's excuse or Mr. Stanley's stumbling answer either. I think her age is very important to the story and who reads a police report then doesn't believe it ? The last time I checked, the Milwaukee Police Department is open 24 hours a day, does the night editor not have a telephone to verify the age ? And please, don't tell me a night duty officer cannot verify this in a minute or two.


 I originally posted this blog at 4:50 PM, without having a response from Mr. Stanley. I did not expect to get one. Then Mr. Stanley conveniently wrote me less than 20 minutes later, with an answer that seems rather scripted to debunk this blog post. According to my source URL codes, between the time I posted this blog and I received his response, someone found this post by Google searching the little girl's name. I cannot prove it, but I have a pretty good idea who it was.



 I believe that the news editor removed the age on purpose and I base this on the Journal's own prior history. So, if not this silly excuse then why ? To cover up the woman's age to avoid the very thing I originally questioned about this story. Why did a 22 years old woman have a 10 year old child ?



 The Journal does not want white Milwaukee to ask this question of the black community. The Journal or at least the editors are in denial of the amount of dysfunction in the black community in Milwaukee. They cannot admit that 50 years of liberal social polices, social polices they support and champion, have created this dysfunction. In their minds, they are being compassionate.



 It is the same compassion they show when a bank is robbed or a person beat up on a county bus. No compassion for the victim, but God forbid they reveal the race of the criminal, if he or she is black. If a white man is sought in a robbery, the Journal will say," white man sought". If it is a black man, the paper will say, " a man is sought". It is a running joke that they do this, but to cover up this mother's age is despicable.



 These attempts by the Journal to hide these things out of their supposed compassion does nothing to help the problem or shed light on it, which is exactly the mission of the newspaper. The editors at the Journal may not want to admit it, but this woman was sexually abused as a child and they know it. Just like thousands of other young black girls are in Milwaukee every year.



 The Journal says nothing, the district attorney says nothing, black politicians say nothing and the black community at large says nothing. Just because they are all silent, that does not make this morally or legally right. The father of this child should be in prison, like many other so-called fathers in this community. Hiding these things only makes the problem worse, just as all the other liberal compassion continues to destroy the black community.



 If liberals really cared about trying to help this dysfunctional black community, they would be shouting the things I have written about here to high heaven. But that would mean that they would have to admit their policies and ideas have failed, so the lack of real compassion for young black girls, like this mother once was, will continue. And so will the rape and sexual abuse of young black girls in Milwaukee, all covered up by the city's own newspaper.




*NOTE* I want to make it clear that this is in no way an attack on the mother of this little girl. This was terrible accident and my heart goes out to her and her family. I offer my deepest sympathy to the mother. However, I cannot in good faith allow examples like this slide or look the other way due to cultural or racial differences. A sex crime against a child is a still a sex crime regardless of race.

 I am sorry that I had to use a tragedy like this to make a larger point, but it is a point that needs to made, over and over until people get it. There are girls this age pregnant around Milwaukee today, probably dozens. The men who raped them walk the streets without fear of prosecution or any care for the children they created. If no one else wants to say this is wrong, then I will.