[Ernie C. Salgado Jr. at The Indian Reporter] Hello. Don't recognize me? That's okay. I understand.My name was Antonio West. I was the 13-month-old baby who was shot in the face at point blank range by two black teens who were attempting to rob my mother. They also shot her.
I think my murder and my mommy's wounding made the news for maybe a day, and then disappeared.
A grand jury of my mommy's peers from Brunswick, Georgia ruled the teens who murdered me will not face the death penalty... too bad it was me who got the death sentence from my killers instead, because Mommy didn't have the money they demanded at gunpoint.
"He said, 'I'm gonna kill you if you don't give me your money,' and I said, 'I swear, I don't have any,'" West said. "I put my arms over my baby and he shoves me and he shot my baby right in the head."You see, my family made the mistake of being white in a 73-percent, non-white neighborhood, but my murder wasn't ruled a hate crime.
Oh, and President Obama didn't take a single moment to publicly acknowledge my murder. After all, he couldn't have any children who could possibly look like me - so why should he care?