Murder of racist leader takes a turn into weird country

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White supremacist Richard Barrett enthusiastically denigrated gays and blacks.

In 1994, he led an anti-gay rally in Boston after a St. Patrick’s Day parade was cancelled in response to a court order that forbade the exclusion of homosexual marchers. Six years earlier, he signed “The Forsyth County Covenant,” which asserted that “all efforts to make us a bilingual, bisexual or biracial society must be defeated.”

But Barrett, who died after allegedly propositioning a black man, may also have been gay. Rankin (Miss.) County Undersheriff Bryan Bailey testified in court today that Vincent McGee, who is accused of murdering Barrett last month, told investigators that the 67-year-old lawyer made sexual advances toward him, according to The Associated Press. Bailey said at McGee’s arraignment that McGee gave multiple statements about why he went to Barrett’s house in Pearl, Miss. The 22-year-old neighbor said both that he’d gone to Barrett’s home to use the computer so he could access his Facebook account and that he’d gone there to complain that Barrett owed him money for yard work he’d done. In one statement, McGee claimed he beat and stabbed Barrett after “Barrett dropped his pants and asked him to perform a sexual act,” the AP reported.

Prosecutors announced at the arraignment that McGee could face the death penalty if convicted of Barrett’s murder. The charges against him were upgraded to capital murder — murder while committing another crime — because Barrett allegedly stole a wallet and gun from Barrett’s home. Firefighters found Barrett’s body in his home on April 22 after neighbors reported a fire there. McGee, who told the AP he didn’t know about Barrett’s racist activism, also faces arson charges in connection with the killing. Three people have been charged as accessories after the fact.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/04/murdered-racist-leader-may-have-propositioned-killer/

One man's gay panic and another man's fear of his own inadequacies led him to a life of racism and homophobia that ended in death for one and either a life in prison or execution for the other. Crazy.

[MadMaddie]

1. Why did I always think there was more to this story?

Why am I not surprised? Both mens actions are sad, the kid could have just said no and walked out but instead he killed the racist.

The racist is gay himself and promoted hate against other gays...

Sad and fucked up!