Submitted by: Lady E
LETTER FROM ANTONIO SANTIAGO TO AMERICA
You won't
recognize me. My name was Antonio Santiago and I was the 13-month old child who
was shot at point blank range by two teens who were attempting to rob my mother,
who was also shot. A Grand Jury of my mommy's peers from Brunswick GA
determined the teens who murdered me will not face the death penalty...too bad I
was given a death sentence for being innocent and defenseless.
My family
made the mistake of being white in a 73% non-white neighborhood, but my murder
was not ruled a Hate Crime. (This is only relevant because the make-up of the
Sanford FL community, which was misrepresented as being 78% White. The actual
demographics are 50% white, 30% Black in Sanford, not quite what was represented
by the media.) Nor did President Obama take so much as a single moment to
acknowledge my murder.
I am one of the youngest murder victims in our
great Nation's history, but the media doesn't care to cover the story of my
tragic demise, President Obama has no children who could possibly look like me -
so he doesn't care and the media doesn't care because my story is not
interesting enough to bring them ratings so they can sell commercial time
slots.