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Ernest Crim III talks about his video of a woman using racial slurs

Oct 19, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

On Tuesday, Jessica Sanders joined the John and Ray Show to speak her peace and apologize for the situation. Wednesday, Ernest Crim III joined the John Howell and Ray Stevens Morning Show to discuss his side of an altercation.

John Dempsey reports…

The African-American man who is pursuing hate crime allegations against a suburban woman who called him the n-word, tells WLS he does not intend to drop the case. Ernest Crim told “The Big John and Ray Show” on WLS , that the altercation with 26-year old Jessica Sanders of Alsip last summer at Chicago’s South Shore Cultural Center, profoundly impacted him.
“The fact remains that what she did that day has changed my life forever whether you know it or not or whether she knows it or not,” Crim told John and Ray.  “Even if I drop this case for some reason, I still have to deal with it. My wife was still assaulted, she was still spit on, and we still have to deal with the stress that comes along with that. Being an African-American person in America, I’ve dealt with situations like this overtly and covertly for my entire life.”
Cook County prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against Sanders after Crim recorded her on his phone repeatedly calling him the n-word, and then spitting at Crim’s wife during “Margarita Fest” at the Cultural Center on July 31st.
After the recording went viral, authorities charged Sanders with battery, and two felony counts of a hate crime. On Tuesday Sanders told Big John and Ray she is sorry. “I would apologize to him, because it was wrong of me to say that specific word. I should have called him ignorant I should have said something else, but either way I mean, he’s not going to accept it but it is out there. I would have said it before I got charged. I mean, it was wrong of me.”
Sanders says the argument stemmed from a dispute over a bean bag toss game. She says she is not a racist, and to her the n-word is synonymous with someone being an ignorant person. “Caucasian, Asian, purple, pink, it doesn’t matter what color you are”, Sanders said, “If you’re being ignorant, you’re being ignorant. We were in the middle of a game. I respectfully went up to her. I don’t understand how it go so blown out of proportion that it needed to get this far. I have nieces and nephews of African-American descent. I have plenty of friends. I have a very diverse group of friends. I’ve been like that. I make friends wherever I go. I have friends of every race, every ethnicity, everything.”
However, Crim told WLS he is not interested in accepting Sanders apology. “The only reason she wants to apologize now is because she got arrested and she didn’t think that was going to happen.”
Crim, who is a Joliet High School teacher, also says by pursuing this, he hopes to send a message to his students.
“I just really want to use this to also inspire kids to let them know that you don’t always have to react violently. You can you know, hopefully, trust the justice system and do things the way you are supposed to.”

 

Woman charged after using N-word

Oct 18, 2016 | WLS-AM Staff

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) Cook County prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a 26 year old woman from southwest suburban Alsip, after an online video recording emerged of her using the n-word against an African-American man and his wife on Chicago’s south side this past summer.

Jessica Sanders was attending an event at the South Shore Cultural center when she got into an argument with Ernest Crim, who is black.    Crim began recording the encounter on his phone and recorded Sanders repeatedly calling him the n-word, and then spitting at Crim’s wife.

After the recording went viral, authorities charged Sanders with battery, and two felony counts of  a hate crime.    Sanders told “The Big John and Ray Show” on WLS that she is sorry.    “I would apologize to him, because it was wrong of me to say that specific word.  I should have called him ignorant I should have said something else, but either way I mean,  he’s not going to accept it but it is out there.  I would have said it before I got charged.  I mean, it was wrong of me.”

LISTEN to Jessica Sanders’ on with Big John and Ray, Tuesday morning on WLS-AM 890.

Sanders says the argument stemmed from a dispute over a bean bag toss game.    She says she is not a racist, and to her the n-word is synonymous with someone being an ignorant person. “Caucasian, Asian, purple, pink,  it doesn’t matter what color you are”, Sanders said, “If you’re being ignorant, you’re being ignorant.   We were in the middle of a game.   I respectfully went up to her.  I don’t understand how it go so blown out of proportion that it needed to get this far.    I have nieces and nephews of African-American descent.  I have plenty of friends.   I have a very diverse group of friends.  I’ve been like that.   I make friends wherever I go.   I have friends of every race, every ethnicity, everything.”

Crim tells the Chicago Sun Times he will not accept Sanders apology, because he does not think it would be sincere.   He said the next time he sees Sanders, it will be in court, and he wants to see the hate crime charges stick.

“I feel that if you do the crime, then you should do the time,” Crim said. “You used that word, probably 30 times before I even hit record, and then you spit on my wife? I think that’s hate.”

@ 2016 WLS-AM News

 

 

Jessica Sanders joined John and Ray to talk about the ‘N’-Word Viral Video that has changed her life

Oct 18, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

Ignorance is defined by the lack of knowledge or information. Ironically, Jessica Sanders of Alsip said recently that the “N-word” to her means “an ignorant person.”

The front page of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a picture of Jessica Sanders, a woman who has been charged with two federal hate crimes after an altercation over a bean-bag toss game during a summer festival.

Sanders was recorded via a cell phone hurling racial epithets, including the N-word.

Telling the Sun-Times, Sanders said, “It was wrong of me to use the word. To me it means ‘ignorant person.’ If they were Caucasian, I would have said the same thing. Latino, black. [Race] has nothing to do with it.”

She has also been charged battery for swatting the phone out of the victim’s hand.

Thus far, the YouTube video has garnered over 700,000 views and continues to be spread across social media.

Speaking exclusively to WLS AM’s John Howell and Ray Stevens, Sanders continued to be both apologetic, saddened and fearful of possible retribution, refusing to return to her home in Alsip.

A 26-year-old south suburban woman is facing charges after a video surfaced of her using the n-word at a South Side margarita fest.

Sanders told John and Ray that even before the public interviews that she was willing to apologize, but that Mr. Crim has publicly stated multiple times that he will not accept any apology.

“Do you think the culture that you are immersed in that the ‘N-word’ is used too freely,” John Howell asked. “[In my world] That word doesn’t even exist!”

Ray Stevens added that the “N-word” in his perception is on the “Mount Rushmore of bad words.”

 

Original Source: Bean-bag video woman says using n-word ‘wrong,’ but no hate crime | Chicago Sun-Times

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