(from Kenyon Farrow’s blog)
People: November 2008 Archives
Stew (who won both Tony and Obie awards earlier this year for his rock musical Passing Strange) said in this week’s cover story of the Village Voice:
“People who grew up thinking race relations in this country were no more problematic than an episode of The Real World are going to get a dose of reality that will make television look like fiction again.”
I can already think of three of those doses. You’ve probably already heard of the assassination attempts. They (coincidentally, of course) seem to only target one candidate, who also happens to be the Black frontrunner in this election. (And there will probably be more to come after he’s elected.) You’ve probably also heard about that ‘crazy’ girl who, as an active supporter of his opponent, scratched her face and lied to police (and media) to make it seem as if someone who resembles and/or supports the Black frontrunner beat her up.
However, you probably have not heard of this: Brandon McClelland was a 24 year old Black man who was hit by two white men in a truck on September 16, 2008. His body was dragged underneath their truck and pieces of his body were found along that highway. Were the local (white) police who investigated the case either as effective or as responsive as they could have been with the obvious forensic evidence? Take a wild guess.
