It’s remarkable to what lengths the media will go to bury the lead these days when immigration is involved:
Tedla and Schlecht were reportedly going through divorce proceedings and were due in court just hours before the gruesome slayings. Schlecht’s brother contacted the authorities that evening, asking to check on his sister after failing to reach her by phone. Kenneth Schlecht, Jennifer’s father, tells the Daily News that the last time he spoke to his daughter was last Sunday and she was in tears.
‘She said her husband had indicated that if she served him with divorce papers he would ruin her or take them all out, which was apparently what he did,’ he said.
Jennifer and Yonathan Tedla, an immigrant from Ethiopia, met in the early aughts at Columbia University, where she was attending graduate school and he was working as an IT technician.
They didn’t mention that the murderer was an Ethiopian immigrant until paragraph 16. Now, the level of domestic violence that black men commit when paired with white women is already off the charts, as interracial domestic violence rates are even higher than black domestic violence, which has by far the highest rate of the intraracial pairings.
Now throw in an entitled individual from a notoriously violent culture and a bad outcome is likely, if not necessarily assured. It’s really rather astonishing that a young woman will be warned repeatedly about the statistically significant dangers of smoking and trans fats and not wearing seatbelts, but never once told about the higher risk of marrying a foreigner who may cut her head off and murder her children.
At the very least, it would be a good idea to see how female-initiated divorce is accepted in a man’s foreign culture before seriously contemplating any form of relationship with him.