Posted on 04/20/2014 8:01:56 AM PDT by SMGFan
Rubin Hurricane Carter, the boxer who infamously served 19 years in jail after he was wrongly convicted for a triple murder, passed away Sunday in Toronto at the age of 76. Immortalized in a Bob Dylan song and a 1999 feature film, Carter was jailed in 1966 for a fatal shooting at a bar in New Jersey. Although he and his acquaintance John Artis passed a lie detector test and professed their innocence, the all-white jury convicted them. After multiple legal efforts, in 1985 a federal judge ruled that the convictions of Carter and Artis were based "upon an appeal to racism rather than reason and concealment rather than disclosure. Once freed, Carter began a new life in Canada and devoted himself to helping others who were wrongly convicted.
That's nothing, twice convicted murdered "Leadbelly" got released on testimony by folklorist Lomax that he was a vital singer and "songwriter" (Lomax attributed ownership to him for some public domain songs so he'd get some royalties to live on).
That was the time of "radical chic" (about the time of "porno chic") when wealthy liberals would throw house parties and fundraise for known seditious and terrorist groups.
Violent Hurricane caused by global warming, no doubt!
Yeah, the Tom Wolfe book. I never did read that book, but it was talked a lot about in the day. Even some lefty sources made fun of Leonard Bernstein. I can see why Wolfe became persona non grata with many lefties though. He made fun of their rituals and skewered them for allying with anti-American radicals. Now, many left coast and east coast mainstream lib celebrities are anti-American radicals.
You can paraphrase about Carter, the very same words Mary McCarthy said about the Leftist idol,playwrite-writer,Lillian Hellman:
“Every word out of his mouth was a lie, including every ‘and’ and ‘the’.”
And I mean EVERY SINGLE WORD. But the Left simply will, never believe that one of their icons would lie about every single thing, every single day of that icon’s life. Then again, if they are convinced, Leftisdts will excuse it with:”Well, he HAAAAAD to, he was BLAAAAACK.Blacks have been treated so horribly by....” followed by the usual river of anti-White, Lefty-verbal-diarrhea.
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