Rev. Peterson: "Where's Al Sharpton on this Hate Crime?"

LOS ANGELES -- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, today released a statement supporting the decision by The Brooklyn Corporation Counsel's Office in New York to charge a group of black teens with a hate crime in the alleged racially motivated beating of six 15-year-old white Catholic school girls last month. According to reports, 20-30 black girls unleashed a vicious beating on the girls while shouting "black power," "white crackers," and even "Martin Luther King." The attack occurred over a dispute about the use of a basketball court in Marine Park.

One victim was quoted in The New York Post as saying, "I thought I was going to die." The victims were taken to a local hospital and suffered various injuries including a broken nose and black eyes as well as head injuries.

Rev. Peterson said: "I'm glad that these thugs are being charged. This is obviously a racially motivated hate crime that has received little media attention. We want to see the perpetrators prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Where's the protest and outrage from New York's own Al ‘the Riot King' Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the NAACP? Had this been a white-on-black crime these people would be inciting a riot."

Rev. Peterson concluded: "We're seeing the manifestation of the hatred taught to black children by racist black parents and racist leaders."

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the founder and president of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny) a nationally recognized nonprofit organization whose purpose is "Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man." He is also the author of the widely acclaimed book SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America. For more information visit www.bondinfo.org