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Racially Motivated Attack in Courtenay, BC

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 08. Jul, 2009 in breaking news, race and racism, video

I came across this chilling report via Kulpreet on Twitter: The original YouTube video of the racist scumbags attacking the Black man, Jay Phillips, is here. I am glad to find the CBC reporting that the attackers have been charged: Three men have now been charged with assault in an attack on Vancouver Island that [...]

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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'

Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues

as recorded 6.15.39

L. Hughes/J.P. Johnson