🦋 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
I found an article describing the historical record of the murder of Hattie Carroll, as well as some further legal trouble Billy Zantzinger found himself in in 1991: The True Story of William Zantzinger -- you will need to scroll down to the middle of the page. The site is in Italian but the story is in English. NPR had a show about Zantzinger in 1991: All Things Considered, November 17 1991, first hour of program, reporter Alex Chadwick: "Zantzinger Exploited Blacks on Property". I am going to buy a transcript of the program and will post it here if it is legal to do so.
 An article from Mother Jones about Zantzinger's life. A transcript of the NPR show. Update from January 2009: Zantzinger has died. The Baltimore Sun's obituary has his life story, and some quotes from a number of people involved in the trial. Plus a photo of Zantzinger being led away from the hotel by Baltimore police. The Washington Post obituary has another photo, captionless but I think it is from '91. Reactions from Bryan Waterman and from Peter Eisenstadt.
posted morning of Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
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That Marcus article was interesting...although primarily in its rawness, its sense of being the human equivalent of a dog whose tail has just been stepped on. In his efforts to argue 9/11 outside precedent, as a new event, Marcus seems also to want to argue it outside precedent and causality - as if any attempt to explain it, any attempt to trace back its planning, is tantamount to explaining it away, to excusing it. And yes, some of the left responses early on did seem unseemly in their haste to fit that day's events into what was, after all, a pre-existing pet political framework for many of them...yet it's also certainly true that 9/11 was not random, arbitrary, or just someone "hating our freedoms" (else, as someone pointed out, why not attack Sweden?). This is maybe clearest when Marcus talks about the attack being "without speech." Yet Bin Laden had attacked the US before, had attacked its interests and clients, and had specifically warned of another attack. So 9/11 was not "without speech"; it was only perhaps that "we" weren't listening - for our various reasons. I should not have to add that pointing out that someone had a reason to perform a murderous act is by no means the same as attempting to justify such an act - but even now, it seems, there are those who think that way, who refuse to accept that others think differently, violently, with hatred, and that to deny that they do - because we do not think that way - is perilous. But subtlety, nuance, thinking through another's position in order to figure out how best to protect one's own interests - diplomacy, in a word, and effective political thinking, in a few others - has quite obviously been beyond the Bush administration's power. Thank god that's ending.
posted evening of January 10th, 2009 by 2fs
Sure, I remember being put off by some leftists' responses to the attacks. I don't have any insight into Marcus' politics though (outside this essay, which makes him sound like a neoconservative).
posted morning of January 12th, 2009 by Jeremy
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