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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The N Word / News New York State Sen. Hiram Monserrate is dead wrong
Posted By Nsenga Burton on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:35 PM
On Monday, New York State Sen. Hiram Monserrate was indicted on charges of slashing his girlfriend's face with a broken glass in a fight in his Queens apartment building.
According to the New York Daily News, the grand jury charged Monserrate with three counts of felony assault on his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo and three counts of misdemeanor assault. The former Democratic city council member is to be arraigned this week. He faces up to seven years in prison, if convicted.
Why are we just hearing about this? While the entire world has been focused on the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident, a state senator allegedly slashes his girlfriend's face and there has been very little about it outside of the state of New York. Why is this not national news?
While I am certainly not in support of Chris Brown, I find it interesting whom the media decides to put on
blast and whom they decide to protect. By the way, he still has not resigned. Just wrong. Dead wrong.
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The reason he hasn't resigned is because he's disputing the charges. His girlfriend is disputing them as well. A resignation would be an admission of guilt. It is hard to tell what happened given the media coverage - in either of these cases. And I'd say that a young and very popular African American hip-hop singer is going to be a lot more newsworthy than a Latino State Senator from Queens. Tha might be why you haven't heard much about it.
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Judging from Nsenga's work, I think the point she's getting at is that the media made a huge deal about a black guy who allegedly beat up his girlfriend, but said nothing about a latino guy who did the same. I'm sure she's making it a racial thing like always.
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