I've made no attempts to be topical here, so I don't feel a need to comment on specific news stories when they come around. (Editorial Explanations is my spot for politics, anyway, and even there the point is to illuminate the slant rather than the truth.)
But the story of that unlucky, murdered young man Trayvon Martin keeps coming up, and it keeps reminding me -- reminding all of us, I hope -- that we're not as post-racial and tolerant and balanced and upright as we like to think we are. Sure, it's never fair to extrapolate from one story, but this one is so reminiscent of so many other stories.
And what it keeps reminding me of, is this quintessentially sad song by Sinead O'Connor, about another dead black boy -- under completely different circumstances, of course, except for being pursued by men convinced that a black man couldn't possibly be as innocent as he actually was -- and how there's always another death to remind us that things don't really change:
Blog Archive
-
▼
2012
(395)
-
▼
March
(17)
- Read in March
- Enkätsvar ute och cyklar
- Wonderland by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew
- Incoming Books: March 23rd
- I Have the Greatest Wife in the World
- Yet Another Neat Thing My Forward-Looking Employer...
- This Year's Playlist for Thing One's Birthday Trip
- There's Any Such Thing As Grieving
- Reviewing the Mail: Week of 3/24
- Paper Aeroplanes nya singel
- Do You Know How Geeky I Am?
- Incoming Books: March 17th
- Anna Ternheim - en äkta juvel
- Massvis med nya höjdarlåtar...
- The man who hated mornings...
- Krigsindustri utan hjärna och hjärta
- Ännu en dröm uppfylld
-
▼
March
(17)
Popular Posts
-
NoiseTrade offers a lot of free music -- usually samplers or live EPs -- but occasionally there's a full album up there. Now is one of t...
-
Just nu hinner jag knappt med livets vardagliga nödvändigheter, men snart kommer oktober och då lättar det. Och det kommer en massa spännand...
-
Haruki Murakami Bingo , from the inimitable Incidental Comics . This is only one square -- clickthrough for the entire thing.
-
And via James Nicoll : I Am A: True Neutral Human Bard (5th Level) Ability Scores: Strength- 12 Dexterity- 12 Constitution- 14 Intelligence...
-
Det kan man ju inte tro... Lucinda Williams fyller 60 i dag! Jag tror att det var Emmylou Harris som en gång sa något i stil med: "Jag ...
-
There are no value judgements stated or implied here; I'm mostly trying to keep track of this myself, so I can refer back to this post i...
-
The kinds of nonfiction that hit major bestseller lists run to a type: serious but friendly explanations about how the whole world is expla...
-
Elliott Murphy, Blidösund, Stockholm, 2013-07-17 För ett år sedan såg jag Elliott Murphy för första gången och jag anade inte att det skull...
-
But I am stealing it anyway, because it is awesome: (It also reminds me of some psuedo-Impressionist watercolors -- also with tasteful A.A. ...
-
Joshua Bilmes is wise about the Hugo ceremony: If you don't think the Hugo Awards should go on for three hours, and they most certain...