DSB: Have there been any noticeable changes in the mood of the city since Paris, Texas gained nationwide attention? BC: OhhhYes. It has made a lot of those in the African-American community hopeful. It has angered many in the white community and some people are on the attack. There is an ever increasing siege mentality, fostered by the newspaper and those few radio stations in town. They have shifted the responsibility, avoided and denied complicity in their being the cause of the problem in the first place. The victim ShaQuanda and her mother has, instead, become the perpetrator of a greater “crime” of degrading of the city and its people, by not shutting up. So the misinformation and lies surrounding her conviction are now being multiplied and justified with more new lies and slander about her and her mother. And these are accepted as being ‘true’ without one question ever being raised. They should have just accepted the injustice and moved on with their lives or so goes the popular thinking. And now, because others did not come forth and tell their story, other families are now coming under attack in the same way, but with ...
