So, according to the AP, the mayor of Jena Louisiana is incensed over a new song John Mellencamp has released in front of his upcoming album. In multiple stories we’ve heard that Mayor Murphy R. McMillin is angry about what he has repeatedly referred to Jena’s unfair treatment at the hands of media and activists (I’m surprised we haven’t been subjected to hearing about “activist media” in the wake of this case!)
But this time, apparently, someone has gone too far, Mellencamp. Or as McMillin put it to the AP:
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Huh. I totally remember this proposal. At the end of some big and victorious game over Oklahoma, Boise State football player Ian Johnson, who is black, got down on his knee and proposed to Chrissy Popadics, who is white.I remember that I was sitting in the living room at my father’s house; we all had something to say:
I posted a little bit on this on Cypher&Syllable last week, but it’s time to listen more closely. The original 911 recording and some transcription are after the jump.
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Last weekend, on the bucolic Quad at Harvard University–typically, the site of a casual game of Ultimate, or perhaps an afternoon reading of some Shakespearean sonnets before English class-an unusual and, to some, frightening scene was played out. There were people throwing things! And running! And jumping! And most scary of all, every single one of them was black. So the Harvard students watching from their dormitory windows, growing increasingly agitated at the sights below, did what any normal, white Harvard student would do when they saw a large, seemingly unruly group of black people: They called the cops!
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