The Willie Horton ad was not racist and he should not have been released on furlough. Willie Horton was the kind of man people would cross the street to avoid. The kind of man that made people cringe and shiver whenever they saw him. He was not a man anyone would want to be around.
William R. Horton committed a crime on October 26, 1974 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Horton and two accomplices robbed a gas station and stabbed the 17-year-old cashier, Joseph Fournier, 19 times after he handed over all the money in the cash register. Horton and his accomplices placed the body into a trashcan and left him to die of blood loss. On June 6th, 1986 Horton was released for a weekend furlough program but did not return. Eight months later in Oxon Hill,
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“I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” he says. William Horton is currently inmate #189-182 at Jessup Correctional Institute. Jessup Correctional Institute is a maximum-security prison South of Baltimore. He is 63 years old now and will serve the rest of his life in prison. Even though Horton says he didn’t commit any crimes there is evidence that he did, in fact, commit these crimes. The definition of racism is that all members of each race possesses characteristics or abilities specific to that race. Not all whites believe that the Dukakis on Crime and the Revolving Door ads were not racist and not all blacks believe that they were. It was the liberals like Michael Dukakis who believed it was racist. Whites are not looking at Horton and saying, “This is what all blacks are like.” Not most white people look at the picture of Willie and believe that. They believe that is what Willie Horton is like. They believe he is a murderer and a rapist because that is simply the truth. If you murder someone, you are going to be labeled as a murderer. If you rape someone, you are going to be labeled a rapist just as if you steal something from a store you are going to be labeled as a thief. Willie Horton is a murderer and a rapist, not all black males. Racism has nothing to do with the fact that William Horton raped a woman twice, tortured her husband and murdered a boy at the age of 19. If it was a white male who raped and murdered innocent people, racism would have never even been mentioned. If people saw a picture of a “scary” white male who raped and murdered someone they would not assume all white males are rapists and murderers so why would they assume this with a black male? The liberals like Michael Dukakis just needed something bad to say about Bush so Dukakis could have a chance at winning the 1988 presidential election. He clearly had no chance at