June 09, 2008
Whitewashing Chante Mallard
Maybe you remember the story. If you don't, political correctness is to blame.
The mainstream media simply didn't give this racially-charged horror story the attention it deserved because the races of perpetrator and victim were inconvenient to the usual Jim Crow America narrative.
In 2001, just weeks after the 9/11 attacks--which the media told us would unite Americans of all colors against a common Islamist enemy--Chante Jawan Mallard murdered a homeless man in Texas.
Mallard, a young Black woman in her twenties, embodied everything wrong with the sleazy hip-hop, gangsta lifestyle--especially its inhumanity and insensitivity to the value of all human life. She was high on gin and Ecstasy--not Snoop Dogg's proverbial "Gin & Juice," but close enough--while driving home in the middle of the night after partying a club. Gregory Biggs, the homeless man she hit and ultimately murdered, was White.
Mallard drove home with Biggs' body stuck half through her windshield. He was alive, but injured and bleeding to death from the injuries and shattered glass sticking into his body. Mallard, a nurse's aide, knew how to administer first aid, and she certainly knew--like the rest of us without that training--how to drive to a hospital.
But she did neither.
Instead, Chante Mallard drove her car, with Bigg's body writhing in agony and dripping blood, into her garage and shut the door behind her. Despite a promise to Biggs to call for help--the first of several such empty promises--she went inside her house and had sex with her boyfriend, while Biggs lay suffering and dying. Biggs returned to the garage several times to check on Biggs, each time promising help . . . and each time doing nothing. Finally, Biggs died.
After Biggs' death, Mallard called two friends of hers, also Black, to help her dispose of Biggs' body in a park. Mallard got away with it, until months later she bragged at a party, "I killed a White man," and repeatedly laughed about it. Uh-huh, that's "hilarious." Yes, the life of a cracker or honky simply wasn't worth that much to Chante Jawan Mallard. Neither was the fact that he suffered and died a slow, painful, bloody death at her hands.
And Mallard would have gotten away with it. But an enemy of hers was at the party and informed police. In 2003, a guilty verdict resulted in Texas v. Mallard, and she was sentenced to 50-years in prison for second degree murder. She stood to do life, but now she will be eligible for parole 25 years after she began serving her sentence. While Mallard's victim, Gregory Biggs, died a cruel, cold-hearted death at her hands, she could be out of jail in her mid-50s.
But now a second injustice has been done. It's "Stuck," a major motion picture just released in theaters. It is almost 7 years after the murder. Yet, 7 years later, Hollywood still cannot face facts when the race narrative is not the one they want it to be. If the evil White man convention doesn't fit, we must acquit, er . . . lie in the script?
While the movie is almost completely faithful to the story, Chante Jawan Mallard--a racist Black murderer--is now Brandi Boski, a White chick played by the fair-skinned Mena Suvari. There is no racism in the on-screen story, no comments about "I killed a cracker. Hahahahaha." But most other things are the same, from the nurse's aide job of the perpetrator to the Ecstasy pills to the lengthy sex scene, while a homeless man is dying in her garage. Even the look of the house on set is virtually identical to Mallard's.
Ironically, the few who object to the racial make-over sound like they are on the same Ecstasy pills Mallard was on the night of the murder. An idiotic, uber-liberal White reviewer writes that he is upset that make-up artists styled the obviously White Suvari with cornrows and made her look and sound "African-American," which he found "insulting and completely racist." Um . . . Hello? Several Black bloggers lamented that "yet another Black role goes to a White woman." From White, guilt-ridden liberals to Blacks lamenting they don't get to play murderers, these card-carrying members of DENSA would be hilarious . . . if they weren't so sad.
Yes, there are a few other differences in this well-done horror thriller. But they are minor in comparison to the Mallard White-wash and help bring the story along.
Gregory Biggs is now Tom Pardo, a 50-something homeless man who has the day from hell, which begins with being thrown out of his dumpy flophouse efficiency to being given the runaround by government employment agency bureaucrats, and being roused from sleep on a park bench by police, to the horror of being hit and left to suffer by the newly-White version of Chante Mallard.
One appropriate embellishment is the scene in which an illegal alien mother and son find the dying man in the garage and endeavor to save him. But when they reach their home, the husband tells them to ignore him and let him die because, "it's not our business. Beside that, do you want to be deported?" While it's not the intended sympathetic-to-aliens sentiment, so much for the public image of illegal aliens as "loyal citizens" who just want to "do the work Americans won't do."
And the ending to the Hollywood version of this movie is far more satisfying than the sad, real-life ending to Biggs' life, making it worth seeing.
But while "Stuck" is a great--though depraved--movie, and well done from almost every standpoint of suspense, misery, and just revenge, one giant injustice rings through:
Bleaching the perpetrator of this horrible murder doesn't just bleach the truth. It adds insult to injury of the memory of murder victim, Gregory Biggs. If he were a Black man, his life might have been worth more to his racist Black murderess.
May he rest in peace, instead of turning over in his grave.
Posted by Debbie at June 9, 2008 05:28 AM
Comments
Unfortunately this will be another movie that I will not be going to see just because hollywierd twisted the story to not offend blacks. When they put together a movie that is more accurate like maybe Mississippi Burning, Jungle Fever, Do The Right Thing, I am likewise going to avoid it. I am also way past tired of white guilt movies.
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at June 9, 2008 09:03 AM
Thanks for highlighting this important issue, Debbie.
The "disproportion" of black on white crime in this country is startling. Blacks assault, rob, rape, and murder whites at much higher rates than whites commit crimes against blacks. (And their preachers and professors and artists tell them it is justified to hate whitey.)
You can be sure that if the statistics were the opposite, there would be a deafening outcry among liberals (and misguided moderates) in government, the media, and academia. So why do so many whites just sit back and take it?
The depths of undeserved white racial guilt in this country and the desire of so many whites to postrate themselves before blacks (see everyone's favorite politician, Barack Obama, and everyone's favorite movie god, Morgan Freeman) is utterly contemptible.
Posted by: RepublicanPatriot at June 9, 2008 10:02 AM
Why even make this movie? Instead of making a movie to entertain the viewing public, they point out how savage society has become. We have all of hollywood's favorite things wrapped up in one: sex, murder, drug use and I am sure more profanity than a reasonable person can stand. Is there no originality left in hollywood at all? They go on a tear of remaking movies. When that gets old, they take a tv series or comic strip and turn it into a movie. After they have exhausted this vein, they make a movie about some criminal who is on drugs and bangs everything that moves. Somehow they make this find upstanding citizen into a tragic hero. If all else fails, they can attack the government or people with initiative, while turning tratiors or lazy people into victims.
Posted by: Ford Jones at June 9, 2008 10:16 AM
No,Spike,Jamie,Denzel,etc,etc, Hollywood is systematically racist against WHITES.
Posted by: OldSchoolW at June 9, 2008 11:41 AM
Wait until we're no longer 90% of the population as we were 40 years ago, or 2/3 as we are today, but 40%, 30%, 20%...it's going to be a laugh a minute for us White boys. Then we'll see how much the media, the government, and non-Whites really care about "minorities".
Posted by: John Harper at June 9, 2008 12:25 PM
I think the take-away point regarding the appearance of the illegal aliens would not have been to show that illegals are bad people. More like were it not for our harsh & restrictive immigration laws, these illegals would have been able to report the incident & therefore, the man's life could have been saved. But since the illegals are forced underground by our society, our society ultimately killed this man. See how all you mean & nasty, anti-immigrant types kill innocent homeless people with your silly laws?
This is precisely why I avoid all movies & most all of TV. (But enjoy your reviews anyhow....even better when they confirm that I'm not missing much.)
Posted by: Cheesestick at June 9, 2008 01:09 PM
I hope Clint Eastwood reads this site. Spike will shut his face on this one for sure.
Posted by: Robert S. Trojan at June 9, 2008 04:50 PM
What bothers me about this is not race, it's just that we have just become so callous as to not care about another human being. Humanity is losing value. That is why stories of MOH recipients like Monsoor, Murphy etc.. cheer me up. Those men held life as so precious, they would rather lose their own that see their buddies die. And that is priceless.
Posted by: mindy1 at June 9, 2008 08:29 PM
If Obama is elected we will see these issues come to a head. Many of Obama's followers have a real sense of entitlement and will be demanding money for past wrongs etc. If that doesn't happen they will hit the streets.
What you all have to remember is that a lot of Blacks have followed the Wright line for years, and the mainstream has ignored the thoughts ignored the words, and the deeds done.
All of these previously ignored issues will come to the fore.
Posted by: taffy at June 10, 2008 07:42 AM
The hate whitey crowd has been out there a long time and many of them are working in jobs right next to you. I went to the er at St. Joe's in Ann Arbor and heard a black Dr. talking to an inmate he was working on that Farrahkan says a lot of good things etc, etc. I let him talk because it was a LITTLE surprising to hear this s--t come out of a doctors mouth. Kind of like reading about the docs in the u.k. having terror ties and sympathies. I'm sure they are like that in our country too. Our msm is just too pc to bring it up.
Posted by: samurai at June 10, 2008 10:26 AM
Hollywood: land of fantasy justification and rewriting history.
Law & Order did this story already when a wealthy, jet setting woman with the same makeup job as Suvari's killed a homeless man with her Aston Martin. But the guy was going to die anyway 'cause another homeless man hours earlier gave the victim a skull fracture for not sharing an orange. She was not charged with murder.
Now this movie. Another attempt to justify an outright murder through fact sanitizing and hollywood racism.
So what's next - a movie to justify the Texas raid on the FLDS? A movie to justify an attack on Texas by the FLDS for the raid? A movie to justify Hollywood for making movies that stink?
Posted by: bhparkman at June 11, 2008 12:58 PM
what is next??? the Whitewashing of Crystal Gail Mangum?? for those who have forgotten, she is the black stripper who falsely accused the six Duke LaCrosse players of rape. Now to be honest, she could not have arranged this accusation to go anywhere without the willing help of Mike Nifong, the local district attorney who willingly falsely accused thesse innocent players so he could obtain the black vote to get reelected. there is a lot to whitewash here, not the least of which is how the DA, Nifong tried to railroad six innocent people. Also, in the 'needing whitewashed' department is the Duke faculty who declared the players guilty well before Nifong even started his investigation. So tell me, how long must we live under this stupid notion of 'white guilt' and its ok for blacks to reverse discriminate because of history?? Now that i think about it, there will be one other item to white wash in this story, the lack of black disrimination stories during this sordid time. Apparently, the left thinks only whites discriminate. Apparently, there was no reverse discrimination perpetrated against the six white boys of the Duke LaCrosse team.
Posted by: agarwaen at June 11, 2008 01:38 PM
Wow, finally some people with common sense. Of course it doesn't matter what the color of skin is or the ethnic background. This woman and her "friends" are true garbage. She basically tortured an innocent man. I understand why it didn't get coverage but it should have been one of the biggest news story of the past 50 years. It is the most heartless, soul-less thing I have ever heard about - right up there with that monster O.J.!!
Posted by: ssb at July 3, 2008 07:03 PM
I don't care about color but coming from the area and city of the accident I feel like alot of guilt is on her because she panic.That dont excuss what she did matters her profession and it amazing how diffrent the movie is from South East Ft.Worth all do it was a good movie with maybe 5 percent of the truth. Why is she eligible for paroll? What make it so wrong is not what happen but trying to get away with and dumping the dead body in our neighborhood in the park were my kids play so she aint as innocent as some make it.
Posted by: wc at September 7, 2008 11:54 PM
these people make this a black and white thing ,but it wasn't nor was a hip hop thing.The media mad that up along with texas law down here things are worded differently between crimes Black commit and whites commit Far as punishments she deseve what she got but if she was white she will be about out with maybe two or three years of paroll some of these bloggers need to know what that are talking about before thay show how truly prejuduce white America really is all do you all try to hide in public but on the computer
about 70% feel like this country is for white only.
Posted by: wc at September 8, 2008 12:20 AM
All human beings are outraged when anyone commits an act so obviously senseless and evil. I don't think she should get out in twenty-five years. Oh and by the way, I happen to be Black.
Posted by: jent at October 15, 2008 05:20 PM
Yes, had to thank you for this blog, because I was beginning to think of myself a racist. As I watched the flick I could not shake the feeling that the girl who hit the man was black. Of coarse the corn rows had something to do with that, but it made me feel guilty all the same. When I came across your blog it was wonderful to find out I was not so crazy. It is a shame about the ignorant political correctness!
Posted by: fhp57 at October 18, 2008 08:08 PM
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