Child murder victim Autumn Pasquale hasn't even had her funeral and hate groups are targeting her and the two teens accused of killing her. A well-known hate group known as the National Black Foot Soldier Network blasted the girl's case recently and claimed that the innocent 12-year-old girl deserved to be strangled for nothing more than bike parts. Sparking rage online, this group is in support of Justin and Dante Robinson -- who not only allegedly murdered the girl, but callously showed up at her vigil shortly disposing of her.
This is absolutely horrendous, and it's certainly not the first time the National Black Foot Soldier Network has come to headlines for their trollish display of racism and hatred toward white female murder victims. It's something they are known for, quite like the Westboro Baptist Church in their troll displays against victims of tragedies.
It should be made clear that racism played no known part in this murder. Neither of these boys are accused of killing Autumn Pasquale because she's white, nor has that been made a possible motive. In fact, it seems preposterous and the reasoning used to turn this into a racial issue is null.
The fact of the matter is that the alleged killers are accused of stealing her bike for parts -- which is something they were very well known for in their neighborhood. Autumn fell victim to her love of BMX bikes and trustworthy nature -- and who wouldn't trust two of her neighbors who were in her age group? Not only did they allegedly strangle and beat the 12-year-old girl to death and dispose of her in a dumpster, they later attended the vigil held for the girl when she was still missing, callously hiding their little secret.
Photo: Screenshot/Black Foot Soldier Network
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Identifying the 'Foot Soldiers'
The late David Mills, a popular blogger whose online handle was "Undercover Black Man," identified the pattern of unique terms referenced by the NBFSN blogs and concluded they were a hoax perpetrated by someone trying to provoke whites into hating blacks. Mills, a former newspaper reporter and Emmy-winning writer for HBO's "The Wire," devoted substantial effort to exposing them, and several times exchanged angry words online with various members of the network, who were especially enraged when they learned that he was black.
After Mills died from an aneurism in 2010, a post on one network blog implied that Mills, though black, was essentially white and had earned his early demise. "David Mills' soul got blue eyes," it said.
The NBFSN also has been much discussed on white nationalist hate sites. Members of Stormfront, the Web's largest white racist forum, seem to agree with Mills' theory, while posters on the racist and anti-Semitic Vanguard News Network believe the blogs are created by Jews as a way to foment tension between blacks and whites.
These theories seem dubious at best. Far more likely, judging from the scant evidence available on their websites, the people who make up the NBFSN are drawn from the world of racist black nationalism.
In fact, it seems very likely that they include many of the hundreds of Nuwaubians who largely disappeared from view after their leader's imprisonment. They also may well include former followers of Yahweh ben Yahweh, a terrifying cult leader who was convicted of conspiracy to murder white people as an initiation rite at his Florida-based Nation of Yahweh, which reportedly once owned properties around the country valued at $100 million. Since his death in 2007, hundreds of his followers in the U.S. and Canada have dropped out of sight as well.
Whether they are active Nuwaubians, people drawn from other black supremacist cults like the Nation of Yahweh, or freelancers who have created an entirely new concept, the National Black Foot Soldiers Network has brought Dwight York's apocalyptic hatred of whites into the 21st century. York, whose release isn't scheduled until the 22nd century, would be proud.