Monday, October 11, 2010

"All of those killed would not have been hoodlums or murderers--many would have been victims of mob psychology or innocent bystanders. If a shoot-to-kill policy was right, my judgment was wrong."

Found an old phone number and felt compelled to dial it.  Her last name was Jackson and she looked something like Michael Jackson circa the Black or White video.  I always wondered why, for a video about racial and gender equality someone decided it would be exciting to have him leap atop a brand new Lincoln and to smash its windows with a tire iron.  Or did he break them by screaming?  I’m not sure.  Either way, I think a tiger entered just after that from around a dark corner along a bright red brick wall.  At the end of the video was a montage of people shirtless from the shoulders up, each shown individually like a mug shot, before metamorphosis into the next person.  It went from a black man to a white woman to an Asian man to a black woman to a white man and so on in that fashion. 

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