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Article: A sad and ironic legacy for Logan County: ; Racial overtones of a crime color a complex history
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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A contributor to a local Internet bulletin board, not known for
his bleeding-heart liberal views, felt the way many of us did when
we read of the atrocity in Logan County, where a young black woman
was tortured for a week, allegedly at the hands of six white people.
He said he first heard the story while he was traveling as part
of his job in Virginia.
"It made me embarrassed to think that I live in a state where
this happens," he wrote. But he went on to write something more
troubling.
The man does computer work for a company that has branches in
West Virginia and elsewhere.
"I have two guys that work for me that are from Africa, and they
refuse to go to the southern part of the state for ...