# Decatur Illinois Untold Story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 4, 1999, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decatur-illinois-untold-story/323 "1999-12-04T19:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![See\_Dee\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@See\_Dee\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/See_Dee_Truth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decatur-illinois-untold-story/323/1 "1999-12-04T19:28:00Z")
Decatur Illinois once the home of Black Liberation Radio, wants to act as if now that Jessie Jackson is gone they will start to repair race relations. Wait just a dam minute! Long before Jessie Jackson put Decatur Illinois in the news. Napoleon Williams and Mildred Jones were being persecuted by a system that is as racist as 1900 Mississippi, no one wants to mention this couple or their children, who some call the Real Dream Team of Decatur Illinois. No one will admit that Napoleon and Mildred have both been jailed on bogus charges. No one is willing to admit that the couples two little girls have been wrongfully taken and placed in foster care. As a matter of fact Decatur Illinois would love for us all to act as if Black Liberation Radio never existed. Look at the Decatur Herald Review website browse around and read the stories about how they are ready to repair the damage they say Jessie Jackson and other outsiders caused. Then take a minute to read a article wrote November 1st 1998 concerning race relations that ends like this   “And how do we involve more blacks? The answer may lie in a question some put to me at a Herald & Review Community Agenda forum: Until the courts return custody of two children to their father, Black Liberation Radio operator Napoleon Williams, how can we resolve anything else? ‘‘That hurts me to know that,’’ a white woman in our study circle said with tears in her eyes and a hand to her heart, ‘‘That hurts right here.’’ How do we stop the pain? We, not ‘‘they,’’ must find a way.” You can find the story at [http://www.herald-review.com/0/tc1](http://www.herald-review.com/0/tc1) 101-8.html We must not let Decatur move on until the taken of these two little girls is investigated and they are back with their family. We must not let Decatur Illinois move on until justice is given to this family. Who for years have called for people to join them in demanding a investigation of what they have been put through. The Time Is Now. You might ask “What can I do?” Anything is better than doing nothing. Write the editors of the Decatur Herald review, let them know that you know about this and you intend to tell others. Contact Rainbow-Push and ask why Jessie and their people in Decatur will not call for a investigation of this case. Contact media people and tell them there is a story here. How can we as a people not hear a family saying “This is happening because we can’t get any help”? This family is pleading for an investigation. They are saying if we are bad parents, if we are criminals it will come out at the end of the investigation. I agree and I find it odd that a town that wants to say Not In Our Town are acting as if it’s better to forget the story of Black Liberation Radio. Well I say to that town NOT IN MY TIME…, Will you join the struggle? Sites to see; The Decatur Herald- Review [http://www.herald-review.com](http://www.herald-review.com) Black Liberation Radio 99.7fm Decatur Illinois [http://expage.com/page/blr997fm](http://expage.com/page/blr997fm) or [http://burn.ucsd.edu/~blr](http://burn.ucsd.edu/~blr) * * * See Dee Truth 2 b Free ---
**Author:** ![SINsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SINsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SINsApple)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decatur-illinois-untold-story/323/2 "1999-12-04T21:57:00Z")
Is this really the place for this? I think maybe this is something you want to email to people or post on a more applicable site as opposed to posting it on a completely unrelated site. But maybe I am wrong. * * * “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” --Whitman ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decatur-illinois-untold-story/323/3 "1999-12-05T01:27:00Z")
Okay, I’m stumped. Which SD column is this thread commenting on? * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. “I get along well with everybody.” --I.M.F. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decatur-illinois-untold-story/323/4 "1999-12-05T21:59:00Z")
I agree that this post is misplaced. Doesn’t seem to be a comment on one of Cecil’s columns and there isn’t a question there, either. Unfortunately I’m out of town on someone else’s computer, so don’t have moderating powers at the moment to move it. I’ve passed this on, though. Jill ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decatur-illinois-untold-story/323/5 "1999-12-05T23:04:00Z")
Okay, I’m stumped, it’s going to MPSIMS. your humble TubaDiva