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== What was McCall in prison for? =='ve come to this article randomly, so don't have any background knowledge, but I would assume that if McCall spent three years in prison, the crime he committed must have been fairly serious. As such, and assuming it can be properly sourced (from his books, maybe?) shouldn't it be mentioned here? It looks incomplete at best and evasive at worst to leave out this information. Loganberry (Talk) 02:34, 25 May 2010 (UTC) I don't know the specifics, however, I do know he has admitted to taking part in a gang rape of young black teenaged girls. He admits this in his books. VirginiaBoy (talk) 04:46, 19 October 2010 (UTC)VirginiaBoy I MICHAEL E mCCAIN IS A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF MR N MCCALL AND THE OFFENCE WAS NOT ALL THAT ,YET A TORT. M. E. McCain .P -Town Friend Get hold of me on face book East St Louis Illinois ,those are the facts.[reply]

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WHEN LAST WE HEARD from Nathan McCall, he was joyfully beating an innocent white kid to a pulp.

"We all took off after him," he wrote on the first page of his 1994 memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

Stomped him and kicked him . . . kicked him in the head and face and watched the blood gush from his mouth . . . kicked him in the stomach and nuts, where I knew it would hurt. . . . Every time I drove my foot into his balls, I felt better. . . . We bloodied him so badly. . . . We walked away, laughing, boasting. . . . Fucking up white boys like that made us feel good inside.

From that chest-thumping start, McCall went on to describe a youth brimming with violent crime. By his own (mostly unrepentant) reckoning, he is guilty of repeated acts of assault and battery, breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, and attempted murder.

And rape -- lots of rapes. Especially gang rapes. Especially of very young girls. In fearsome detail, McCall recounted the first "train" he took part in -- a mass-raping of a frightened 13-year-old virgin named Vanessa. "After that first train," he bragged, "we perfected the art of luring babes into those kinds of traps. We ran a train at my house when my parents were away. We ran many at Bimbo's crib because both his parents worked. And we set one up at Lep's place and even let his little brother get in on it. He couldn't have been more than eight or nine." McCall's elaborate criminal history notwithstanding, he spent very little time behind bars: He did a total of eight days for shooting a man in the chest at point-blank range and served less than three years of a 12-year sentence for holding up a McDonald's. There was no punishment for all the homes he broke into, for all the victims he mugged, for all the people he shot, for all the girls he raped. Instead, McCall went from prison to a state university, and from there to a career in journalism that eventually landed him on the Metro desk of the Washington Post.