Richard Barrett, White Supremacist Lawyer, Found Stabbed to Death, Neighbor Vincent McGee Charged with Murder

White supremacist lawyer Richard Barrett found stabbed to death in a burning house in Jackson, MS. Neighbor, Vincent McGee, who is black, arrested and charged with murder.

Richard Barrett, a White supremacist lawyer was found stabbed to death in a burning house on Thursday in Jackson, Miss. Authorities later arrested a neighbor, Vincent McGee, 22, and charged him with murder in the case. According to the Houston Chronicle, Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said additional charges, including arson, could be forthcoming. McGee, who is black, had done yard work for Barrett in the past, Pennington said. This almost sounds like a copy-cat case of the recent bludgeoning death of South African white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche on his farm.

Barrett, a New York City native and Vietnam War veteran, moved to Mississippi in 1966. Soon after, he began traveling the country to promote anti-black and anti-immigrant views and founded a supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement. One expert on hate groups said Barrett was well known for his news conferences and protests in places having racial strife, but that he had mustered little real clout in the white power movement.

Barrett attracted about 50 supporters to his 2008 rally in protest of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the Louisiana town of Jena, where six black teenagers were charged with beating a white classmate. Years earlier, he sued over a ban on Confederate flags at University of Mississippi football games.  Barrett operated the Nationalist Movement from an office in the small rural town of Learned, Miss., about 20 miles southwest of Jackson, where he also ran a school for skinheads. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barrett told AP he believed there would be a revolution in the United States if Barack Obama were elected as the first black president. Source: Houston Chronicle

No matter how you hate what this man stood for, he didn't deserve to be murdered. Some say you live by the sword, you die by the sword, but it isn't right for others to believe they have the right to take the life of another. In one instance I want to say good riddance, but murder isn't the way to solve problems.