Word: jasper
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Most heinous, in the course of the parade one man jumped behind the truck, clung to the bumper and was slowly dragged down the street--a cruel reference to the dragging death of James Byrd earlier this year in Jasper, Texas, by three white...
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That said, the moral atmosphere of the country is a brave new world compared with the one I grew up in. The murder in Jasper, Texas, of a black man who was dragged to his death by three white subhumans: 40 years ago, that town of 8,000--30% black--would have rallied round the subhumans. Today the mayor declared that the established bond between black and white would hold. And the dead man's family told opportunist politicians that he was not a national symbol...
...macabre throwback to the '60s, a small southern town on Saturday becomes a flash point for America's unfinished conversation on race. The Ku Klux Klan is staging a rally outside the courthouse in Jasper, Texas, but the Klansmen face the unfamiliar experience of having their activities monitored by shotgun-wielding members of the New Black Panther Party, who plan to protect the town's black citizens. The Klan event is ostensibly intended to condemn the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. for which three men with white supremacist links have been charged...
...asking everybody to please don't come to Jasper Saturday," said County Sheriff Billy Rowles. "Let us handle it." He has good reason to be worried. Wednesday's autopsy report on Byrd's killing will have done little to cool passions in the town: It confirmed that Byrd's head had been ripped from his body after he was dragged behind a vehicle, which had also broken his back, legs, arms and collarbone and ground his elbows, kneecaps, lower back and both heels to the bone...