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May 24th 2006 at 4:59 pm in Today, Sean Coon’s Lyricist Wednesday-post featured an OMD song, called ‘88 seconds in Greensboro‘, referring to the Greensboro Massacre. I had nothing better to do, so today I got my ignorant ass to actually read up on the story and check the Greensboro’s Child documentary trailer and excerpt.
Before today, I didn’t know anything about this event and it surely pisses me off how, seemingly (well, ‘obviously’ in my humble opinion), the police is purposely absent so those damn KKKrackers can go down on the protesters. And I really mean go down: it’s all caught on tape.
It pisses me off more how afterwards, the guy that right away makes a load fuss about the police’s lack of presence being coincidental — he’s getting his ass hauled away by them.
The adrenaline surely boils to hear that those KKKrackers were found innocent by an all-white jury.
To top it all off it’s surely distressing to read about the injustice that happened to Kwame Cannon, some 7 years later.
Two major instances where the ‘justice’ system once again got abused (raped) as it has done in so many other cases.
Pretty sickening stuff, to severely understate it.
Greetings from Greensboro. I suspect that one reason you never heard much about it is that it happened at almost exactly the same time the Iranians took over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and took everybody there hostage. If you weren’t in N.C., that pretty much pushed everything else off the front page for a long, long time.