Echoes of hate
The 20th anniversary this week of the beating death of Ethiopian student Mulugeta Seraw at the hands of racist skinheads on Southeast 31st Avenue in Portland is prompting some remembrances of that event and the sensational legal actions that followed. Meanwhile, Morris Dees, one of the key lawyers in the case, is busy trying a similar one in Kentucky. Alas, there's a guy with job security.
Comments (4)
Props to Eldon Rosenthal, the Seraw family's local counsel. He has continued a stellar career in civil rights over the years, most recently as counsel for FBI target Brandon Mayfield.
Posted by none | November 14, 2008 9:53 AM
I lived in an apartment overlooking the street where the murder occurred, ten years ago. By the time we awoke on the tenth anniversary, racists had painted a huge swastika and a hateful message in the middle of the intersection--and someone else had already come and covered it entirely with black paint.
I chose to take it as evidence for the good in humanity.
Posted by tom | November 14, 2008 11:06 AM
The local-yokel 'Echo Chamber of Hate' -- that would be LIARS mouth -- has roasted you, Jack, you been grilled and fricasséed baby, charred and tarred and har-de-har-har'ed kiddo, spit on and kicked in today's mush head programming ... how can you live with yourself?, and your opinion?, standing here in opposition to LIARS slavish rod-rub goo-goo shmooze with every cop who kills civilians, and the Right(-wing wacKKK o'ness) of cops and foam-lipped LIARS to shoot in their power-maniac path anyone who blocks it.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | November 14, 2008 11:56 AM
Tensk
Did you partake in any experimental drug trials as a kid? :-)
Posted by mp97303 | November 14, 2008 12:02 PM