This is true. I have been wanting to mention this for some time but had not looked up the article or recording that I remember hearing/reading this to back me up. Patterson has talked about this though. It is about a black man who was shot and killed in Athens. That is what the Ruth St. line is referring to.LBRod wrote:That first verse was not written about Michael Brown. Everyone assumed it was,
and I think Patterson changed the line to stave off pedantic dicks.
Here is one article I found: http://flagpole.com/news/in-the-loop/he ... and-killed
I still have not found the article/recording of Patterson talking directly about this Wright incident though, but there is one. Someone please help me dig this up so I/we can be certain it was the Wright incident he was talking about. The Wright incident is definitely the highest profile case of police killing and unarmed black man in Athens that i can find.
Still though, this will not end the argument. The flagpole article lays out the details of the Wright shooting. Wright was not shot in the back.
However still, there are videos of black men running away from police and being shot readily available on the internet to see. There is no debating whether or not black men are targeted by police and handled very differently from their white counterparts. They are. There are also plenty of videos of white men, ARMED white men, not being shot after pointing a gun at an officer or being combative. I don't have time to go in to all of this and I do not care to. Those who do not understand the BLM movement or condemn it altogether...their minds are made up and can not be changed. Police are too quick to discharge their weapon. There are plenty of videos of European police resolving situations with armed and combative citizens without the use of deadly force. Our police need new training and a better understanding of the Constitution regarding our rights and their rights. We live in a police state. We are signing away our rights every day out of fear and have been since 9/11.