For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history.
Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life.
But it's not over.
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For 5 decades, police officer Roger Golubski sexually assaulted Black women and forced to give false testimony that he used to send Black men to prison while he ran a sex trafficking and drug cartel in Kansas City Kansas
While this may seem like an end... There are still too many unanswered questions, including:
What about the KCK officers who used "Golubski's Girls" to imprison Black men like Lamonte McIntyre and WATCHED Golubski sexually assault a woman AT THE POLICE STATION
What happens to Terra Moorehead, the District Attorney who teamed up with Golubski?
After serving as DA, she became a federal prosecutor in the justice department.
What happens to Niko Quinn, who was forced to choose between testifying against that an innocent man killed her family member or losing her children?
What happens to the woman who testified under oath that Golubski came to her house "once a week or once every two weeks" to sexually assault her after putting BOTH OF HER SONS IN PRISON.
*TRIGGER WARNING
We know what happened to Golubski's partner, the cop who allegedly sat in the car while Golubski committed his weekly sexual assault:
Terry Ziegler became chief of police
What happens to the GOOD COPS, like the special agent who warned his superiors that Golubski was a racist and a sexual abuser
What happened to the girls Golubski imprisoned at the apartment complex used for sex trafficking that was owned by the drug dealer he protected?
And there is one other part that every one knows but no one seems to want to talk about.
Roger Golubski is probably a serial killer.
For years, there has been a string of unsolved homicides of Black women in Kansas City.
Many of them were last seen with Roger Golubski
Many of these women's bodies were dumped in the QUindaro Park neighborhood Golubski patrolled
I've actually mapped the route while walking it with the survivors
I am in constant contact with the survivors.
But no one wants to tell their stories.
I know. For 4 years, I've met with your favorite networks and streaming services. I've talked to TV executives and news outlets. They DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS STORY
To them, it's just another story about a corrupt cop. They told me they aren't interested in "social justice" stories after "The George Floyd era."
To me, this is a story about the cops, prosecutors, judges and the SYSTEM that allowed it to happen.
It's about the Black women who WOULD NOT STOP until Golubski was brought to justice.
But no one wants to tell that story.
Even if they did, now that Golubski is dead, the story is over to them.
So I'm going to tell it myself.
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I’m sure you think I’m gonna mention Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Black fur trader who is known as the first non-indigenous resident of Chicago.
But du Sable was not enslaved when he moved to the mouth of the Chicago river in 1790.
So who TF was buying furs?
Well, remember all that was French territory. In 1719 French entrepreneur Philippe François Renault hopped in a boat in the South of France, stopped in Haiti to purchase 200-500 humans beings & headed to “Upper Louisiana”
By 1760, 900 ppl were enslaved in “Illinois Country”
By now, it has become apparent that this man is much dumber than people initially thought, but here is why this specific act of ignorance is so common.
"Slavery was standard practice throughout earth..."
Let's start here.
While MOST societies (not all) had forms of involuntary subjugation, people who don't know things use their ignorance and privilege to flatten the idea of slavery.
I always found it funny that ppl who say "slavery existed in every society," also LOVE to differentiate between indentured servants and enslaved people.
Whitewashing the uncomfortable parts of the past doesn't just affect Black stories. For example, you can't fully appreciate how a peanut farmer from Plains, GA became a beloved president unless you know TRUE Black History.
The unwhitewashed history of Jimmy Carter:
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Jimmy Carter was a simple peanut farmer who grew up in Plains, GA when the deep South was defined by racism. His family taught him not to see color. Instead of asking for handouts, they focused on God, education and...
OK, none of that happened.
First of all, to understand where Jimmy Carter comes from, you have to go back a few generations. Because you probably already know a few of his cousins.
In fact, he might not even be the most famous person in his family. But I'll let you decide.
There's a very interesting connection between Mark Zuckerberg's right-wing turn and the guy who might be the most powerful person in American media. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, so...
A thread.
First of all, let's be clear. Mark Zuckerberg's didn't just announce changes to Meta's content moderation policy. He didn't even announce that Meta's content policy will change.
He announced that his company is willing to help kill people.
How?
First of all, replacing fact-checking with community notes doesn't just mean misinformation and hate will spread, it means people will die because of it.
For instance , Facebook removed MILLIONS of posts containing COVID misinformation.
Brett Favre is a descendant of Simon Favre, a famous“interpreter” who could speak multiple native languages.
Simon entered the family business at a young age and owned dozens of slaves and 100s of acres
But that wasn’t the family business.
The Favres stole land
The scam worked like this:
The Favres would move near a native tribe, earn their trust and convince native Americans that giving up their land & assimilating was in their best interest.
In exchange, they could keep some of the stolen land