“Hundreds of tearful mourners gathered Wednesday to remember an Ecuadoran immigrant beaten to death by a hate-spewing gang in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The funeral for real estate broker Jose Sucuzhañay was punctuated with calls for justice and faith after the murder that shocked the city. … Sucuzhañay’s mother, her face contorted with grief, struggled to walk down the aisle of the packed church, supported by Jose’s brother Diego. … Jose Sucuzhañay’s body will be flown back to his hometown in the Andes mountains for burial. Ecuadoran community leaders called him a martyr for immigrants from the South American nation. … ‘He made a tremendous sacrifice,’ said Walter Sinche of the Alianza Ecuadoriana. ‘We come here to make this country stronger and don’t need to end up this way.’
“Jose Sucuzhañay, 31, a father of two, was walking arm in arm with his brother, Romel, near his home in Bushwick on Dec. 7 when a car full of thugs started shouting anti-gay and anti-Latino epithets. The men in the SUV chased down the brothers, clubbing Romel with a beer bottle and hitting Jose with a bat. He died a few days later. Cops are still hunting for the attackers.” [NYDN, photo]
chuck
Welcome to Amerika…land of the homophobic. A man walking arm in arm with his brother, as is the custom in South American countries, has to die because some dumb fucks in Brooklyn and who probably lived on toity-toid and foist Avenuh, think that “looks” queer. As a born American, I am so saddened and embarrassed by my fellow Americans behavior. This is the image we send out to the rest of the world? Land of the free and the brave?
Yeah, real brave when it takes a car full of thugs to beat up on two unarmed men. The two brothers didn’t even have a fair, fighting chance. But then, thugs and the Church never play fair, do they?
Your local Church dollars at work, proselytizing bigotry, hatred and homophobia.
Kids aren’t born that way. They have to be carefully trained. And that ‘training” starts from the moment the priest sprinkles that “holy” water on your forehead.
When we have organized religion, who needs Nazi youths in brown shirts and Swastikas?
chuck
The crowd called for justice and faith???
Faith in what? That sooner or later, someone will dash your brains out with a baseball bat because they were taught by the teachers of faith to hate your ass and threaten you will going straight to hell if you’re queer?
Where is the “justice” of that?
A man is dead here, for Christ’s sake. Why are people looking for consolation from the very people who were the cause of his young man’s murder?
Just how long will it take this country, and the world as well, to see the obvious? Does anyone see and take notice of the fact, that the bigotry and hatred that is preached and taught in religion also causes the death of people who aren’t even gay?
Why isn’t the heterosexual community up in arms about this?
If they are not outraged, they are not paying attention.