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Article: Gasps and tears in Logan County, An atrocity stains a more complex,: multicolored history
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- September 14, 2007
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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 ...