The MS-13 Massacre Corey Booker Does Not Want Black America to Remember
When Illegal Immigrants Kill Black People, The Media Look Away
Hearing a weepy Sen. Corey Booker ask America to “think about” the “American mother and American child” whose deported father/ husband may or may not have been an MS-13 member, one has to wonder what the mothers of Dashon Harvey, Terrence Aeriel, Natasha Aeriel, and Iofemi Hightower were thinking.
Booker knows who these women are. He was mayor of Newark, NJ, when their children were sexually assaulted and/or murdered in a Newark playground by a gang of illegal aliens. I know about these murders only because I grew up in Newark and follow current events.
Although the largest city in one of America’s most populous and affluent states, Newark makes the news only when the gatekeepers of New York’s newsrooms decide it should make the news. And on the night of August 4, 2007, no one wanted to green light the story coming out of Newark.
On that steamy evening, Jose Carranza, 28 at the time, and five of his buddies were drinking and smoking marijuana in a Newark schoolyard. There they spied four young black students, two of them female, talking and playing music and judged them easy prey.
This was not a rival gang, nothing like it. Dashon Harvey, 20, was entering his junior year at Delaware State University. Terrence Aeriel, 18, was to begin at Delaware State the following month. Natasha Aeriel, then 19, also attended Delaware State. Iofemi Hightower, 20, was holding down two jobs while she saved to attend college.
“Itz tym 2 go,” an anxious Terrance Aeriel texted his sister Natasha from his perch on top of the monkey bars. He could see something they could not. Although he did not know that the older of the six men walking towards him were affiliated with the violent Central American gang MS-13, he sensed trouble.
Terrance and his three friends promptly headed to Natasha’s car, but it was too late. The men surrounded them before they could drive away and at gunpoint forced them to the ground.
They separated Natasha from the others and began to molest her sexually. “All I could keep doing was saying, 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,’” Natasha would later testify. “It probably was a little too loud because somebody told me to shut the fuck up.''
One of the gang members put his knee in Natasha’s back and tickled her throat with a machete. It was then that Natasha heard Carranza and his crew kill the three others execution style with gunshots to the back of the head. Upon seeing her own blood, Natasha summoned the will to push off her attacker who shot her and left her for dead. She survived to finger the attackers.
Booker knows this story well. Iofemi Hightower’s mother insisted that her daughter’s casket remain open to show the visible machete scars inflicted by her killers. She had hoped Iofemi’s open casket would galvanize America the way Emmett Till's did in 1955, but that never happened.
The media gatekeepers succeeded in keeping this story out of the national news for the simple reason it served no useful political purpose. Corey Booker had been elected mayor of Newark just a year earlier, and he had national potential. The business-friendly young mayor promised a rejuvenated Newark. This incident flew in the face of that promise.
Six months before the playground massacre, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president. He launched his campaign in the shadow of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, where, said Obama, “Lincoln once called on a divided house to stand together.” Like Obama, Lincoln promised to bridge racial divides, and the last thing the media wanted to provoke was a rift in his base between blacks and Hispanics.
Most dangerously, Jose Carranza had the potential to be the next Willie Horton for whichever candidate ended up owning the policies that had left him free to kill. At the time of the murders, Carranza was out on bail. He was awaiting trial in two separate cases, one the sexual assault of a five-year-old girl.
This would have been troubling enough had Carranza been a citizen or a legal resident, but he was neither. Newark authorities knew he was in the country illegally, but they chose not to notify immigration officials of either arrest. They never did. Newark gloried in its unofficial status as a sanctuary city. Still does.
“No one shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of the law,” said the comically disingenuous Booker in regards to the MS-13 gangsters shipped off to El Salvador. Tell that to the moms, Spartacus.
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Excellent work once again Jack but we should put the violent pictures together for Booker since he is up for reelection
What can I say, Jack? You’ve done it again! Another article worthy of the Pulitzer Prize! I had no idea the Newark Massacre ever took place! The mainstream media wanted it that way because it was a story that made their preferred party the Democrats look bad so they did a blackout of the story ensuring no one would ever know it took place. Then Newark Mayor and future Senator Cory Booker was aware criminals like Jose Carranza and his gang could be among those hiding in his sanctuary city but he couldn’t have cared less and made no attempt to remove them. It was no skin off his nose and hey it doesn’t effect his political career after all. So that made it all the more tragically ironic when he got up in front of the country and shed (no doubt fake) tears.
He lamented that innocent people were being deported and families were being separated. I agree we should care about that and any legitimate instance where that happened should be corrected immediately. But it gets one to thinking: where were these tears for the four innocent black teenagers who Carranza and his hoods slaughtered in broad daylight in the city he used to run? Why didn’t he cry for them? So your telling me illegal immigrants including MS-13 gang members matter more than the lives of native-born black Americans murdered by four sadistic killers?
Dashon Harvey, Terrence Aerial and Iofemi Hightower were slaughtered like animals by
these killers while Natasha Aerial was brutally raped. Three black teens were massacred on the streets of Newark and one was raped but no one cared. Barack Obama didn’t come to pay his respects to the family, the NAACP and other pc pressure groups didn’t descend on the city and the national media basically yawned at the story and never covered it. Let’s say that instead of MS-13 gang members these three kids had been murdered by the KKK or Neo-Nazis as was the case with the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing or the 1979 Greensboro Massacre.
Would the Democrats and the press have reacted differently? You bet your life they would have! There would’ve been wall to wall coverage, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would’ve been in Newark lickity split, Cory Booker would’ve been screaming at the top of his lungs, and the NAACP would’ve declared it another “chapter in the long history of racism in this country!” But since the perpetrators were Hispanic and illegal aliens they avoided the story because it made them look bad and didn’t fit with their narrative.
RIP Dashon Harvey, Terrence Aerial and Iofemi Hightower! May their memory be a blessing! 🇺🇸❤️🌸🌺💐🕯️🕊️