Tag Archives: chicago

Shock Treatment, Suspicious Blacks and Oscar Grant

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 17. Jul, 2010 in california, civil rights, dee moore case, mississippi, race and racism, southwest ms

I have been trying to wrap my mind around BART police officer Johannes Mehserle’s defense in the shooting death of 22-year-old black man Oscar Grant. Mehserle’s supposed weapon confusion is at the heart of why he was not convicted of voluntary manslaughter, let alone of second degree murder. The underlying logic of the defense seems to [...]

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What Gives?

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 25. Jun, 2009 in breaking news, from my tumblr, race and racism

FBI agents have arrested white supremacist spewer of death threats Hal Turner. But why?

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Election Night in Chicago

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 09. Nov, 2008 in election, friends

By Rebecca Thal We were way back in the crowd, on a patch of the lawn where it was possible to see the jumbotron only from tiptoe, and completely impossible to see the stage. So, when my flexed toes finally gave out, while Barack Obama’s words resonated around us, I kept myself occupied by looking [...]

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MLK in Chicago (1966)

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 20. Jan, 2008 in civil rights movement, race and racism

The SCLC campaign in Chicago was a failure but still revealed a great deal about racism in the North. There is much of interest here on Dr. King, the local Civil Rights Movement in Chicago, the climate in the US in the mid-60s and more. This is a playlist, with five videos, approx. 30 mins [...]

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