Rubin "Hurricane" Carter dead at 76...

[SidDithers]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/04/20/rubin_hurricane_carter_dead_at_76.html

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the former boxer imprisoned nearly 20 years for three murders before the convictions were overturned, has died at his home in Toronto.

Sid

[lostincalifornia]

1. Very sad. Had very little time out of jail for a crime he didn't committ

[DreamGypsy]

2. Rubin Carter lives on...

...in the music that commemorates the grave injustice he suffered.

In his own life, Carter said he “lived in hell for the first 49 years, and have been in heaven for the past 28 years.

“To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that would be heaven enough for us all.”

Dylan, from the classic album Desire, the opening cut, Hurricane, with Scarlett Rivera on violin.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlf05o_bob-dylan-hurricane-1975-live_music

All of Rubin’s cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance
The judge made Rubin’s witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
And though they could not produce the gun
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed

Rubin Carter was falsely tried
The crime was murder one, guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell
That’s the story of the Hurricane
But it won’t be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he’s done
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world

R.I.P. Rubin Carter.

[panader0]

3. Oh shit--

RIP Mr Carter. Kudos to John Artis, who was arrested in the same set-up, for the comfort he brought Rubin toward the end.