At long last, someone has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Tamika Huston, missing since May 2004. The man is someone she knew, of course, a 25-year-old convicted felon. From USAToday:
Hampton was not incarcerated when Huston disappeared in May 2004. At that time, Spartanburg Director of Public Safety Tony Fisher said Friday, Hampton was living in an apartment where a significant amount of Huston’s blood was later found.
Huston is presumed dead because of the large amount of blood discovered in the apartment. Fisher said “forensic evidence” has given his department what it needs to charge Hampton with murder, but he would not comment further during a news conference in Spartanburg.
Violent crimes against young women are perpetrated, typically, by someone they know. In an age where families are scattered, societal mores are loosened, and black women in particular tend to grow up without fathers around to teach them how women should be treated, what kind of men to avoid, etc., navigating the dating world can be treacherous and sometimes fatal.
Let this be a lesson for you single ladies out there. Yes, people can change for the better, turn their lives around and become productive, law-abiding citizens. But as a rule of thumb, don’t date convicted felons, ex or otherwise.
Other sources:
- Cry for Help in the Disappearance of Tamika Huston
- Have you seen her?
- Spotlight skips cases of missing minorities
- Cable Can’t Get Beyond the Pale
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Addendum: No matter how desperate you are, NEVER date Mike Tyson.
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>> “No matter how desperate you are, NEVER date Mike Tyson”
I’ll bear that in mind!
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co-sign! a mistake is one thing. a felony is quite different.
and take a karate class while you’re at it. never know when a good HAI-YA! will come in handy
La Shawn:
My wife has a cousin who divorced her daughter’s father, and married a CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER.
Predictably, she accused him of raping her, and now is in foster care.
This beautiful young lady is 19 and going to college, and my wife has kept in touch with her and encouraged her, and went to her high school graduation. Her own mother didn’t show up.
Hopefully, she will be more careful who she hangs around with.
Tamika Huston made some really bad decisions, and she paid the price.
I believe something good will come from the publicity about Huston – a few young women, somewhere, will think twice and tell these losers to “get lost”.
It’s about time they found this scum….
I’ve prayed for Tamika’s family, and will continue to do so…They’ve had quite a struggle on their hands. Now…if only MSM will report on other missing black (and other minority) women…
Dan
We’ll run stories about her being missing and help your people find her as soon as we find this missing blonde blue eye WHITE girl, Natalee Holloway.
Sorry, but that is our policy. White girls first.
Good luck and God Bless.
Sincerely,
FOX News
Fox news because… Fox is right wing and therefore racist?
That would explain why CNN and MSNBC have stayed away from that story.
Oh, they haven’t? Hmmm. Maybe they focus on the White girl because America, sadly, really does find more sex appeal there and that’s all that drives ratings.
You had a good criticism (good, though repeated ad nauseum) but I just wanted to add that FOX news isn’t the problem.
It’s the national audience (and it’s not even the USA’s populace fault, as we are hardly racist compared to the rest of the world).
Just a sad point about the human condition.
-The Iron One
Fox News is right wing? Didn’t know that. They normally do a great job by reporting the news in a fair and balanced manner to me. Their editorials skew a little right of center. Hardly right wing.
Then again anything right of left is right wing to a liberal even if it is still left.
Raymond,
I agree with that.
Being a white(y? hehehe), I STILL find it reprehensible that the MSM doesn’t report on missing minority women (and men and children) as much (if at all!) white women. It’s appalling. PEOPLE are important, not their color or if people find them visually appealing.
Dan
Fox is “right wing?” But they are the network that broke the story about President Bush’s DUI which nearly cost him the presidency. Why would a “right wing” network do that?
I am glad they found the guy. I have so much fear for my daughters as they grow up in this world. Sigh. Life.
This media coverage is not about discrimination. This is about a family who makes it a media issue. Natelle Holloways mother makes media events, she went to the suspects workplace, she hired investigators, ect. The same with John walsh, the others (oh wait his son was a white boy so it doesnt coutn) You all should stop looking at everything with race. These are parents who make it an issue and want to find their children.
#11. Shari:
What about Latoyia Figueroa? Her father has made some heartwrenching pleas on Fox, but he doesn’t get nearly the airtime that Holloway’s mother does. Why not?
#13 Say it again Uppity Monkey!!!
I need Shari to wake up and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
Please know, that blogs like yours (from non liberal sites) helped in this and other cases like it.
Keep up the good work!
I know I don’t agree with you on many occasions but I do enjoy your point of view.
Thank you for your work,
Monika
** young lady doesn’t come home from work/school
** young lady is classified a missing person
** young lady is found dead/raped/wounded
** attacker is found – boyfriend, respected realtive or preacher
** family/community paralyzed by shock that this could ever happen to this innocent girl
** family/community paralyzed by shock that this man could ever do something like this!
I am so sick of seeing this sequence of events. I wonder how many more times it has to happen. Perhaps one day our governments will actually turn their attention away from income redistribution and brokering real estate deals with eminent domain abouse, and toward their constitutional obligation to protect the people!
It’s not about the cable channels being racist, its about ratings. Sadly, the ‘all Natalie all the time’ Greta show is getting great ratings, shows that are more balanced get lower rating.
Same thing happened during the ‘all Shiavo all the time’ news earlier this year.
IMHO, it’s not the government’s job to protect young women from triffling men. The people who raise you are supposed to instill enough of a sense of pride and dignity that a young woman would not tolerate certain behaviors.
I’ve noticed since high school that many women seem to date the same dude over and over again…only the name changes. Whatever the women put out, any shiftless, triffling, non-job-having male will zero in on them. I always found it interesting that those men would be breaking their necks to get to the weakest link while not even attempting to speak to others in the group.
I used to think that I must have “Triffling men need not apply” tattooed across my forehead because of the drama I have NOT encountered.
Basic rules: no felonies, full-time legitimate employment, no abandoned children, no drugs, no interaction with another male’s genitalia…ever (prison counts…another reason for the ‘no felonies’ criteria).
PurpleMD
Raymond: It is true: Tamika Houston — well, that’s only Those People killing each other. Natalee Holloway — An innocent[?] White girl goes to a tropical island, an place with so many of Them, don’t forget; and winds up missing.. what a scoop!
Interesting whenever the media does any kind of profile of bigotry, immediately the South is mentioned. Well, the Main-Stream Media is run by Eastern leftist intellectuals, not Southerners, and it is they who are responsible for this disparity.
As for Miss Holloway herself, she has in all likelyhood left this mortal coil. I do offer my condolances to her survivors. Very sad.
Mrs. Holloway reminds me of another parent who lost his child in a very tragic setting: Tom Mauser who lost his son, Daniel, in the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999.
Mr. Mauser has now taken the grief he has for the loss of his son and made a name for himself promoting a host of leftist causes, notably restrictions on firearms ownership, and has become quite a pill.
I cannot keep my thoughts still on this occasion…
Reflecting upon all this, I must confess that I feel sorry for Black women in the singles scene. Seems like slim pickins.
… *There you go again, Mark, you bigot, you* Not at all. I do know many Black men who are good and respectable citizens. They are nearly all, however, happily married.
It is tight on the sisters in the singles game. Fortunately for many of us, we are starting to realize that there are men of all colors who appreciate us..therefore keep your options open!
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