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Helen Andrews

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Jan 18

I'm glad @edwest wrote about the Stephen Lawrence case, because it's baffling to me that Britain's most famous racist incident, which supposedly proved their police "institutionally racist," was probably not a hate crime and involved no police misconduct. edwest.co.uk/p/britain-is-i…

Stephen Lawrence, the son of Jamaican immigrants, was killed in an unprovoked stabbing in 1993 while walking home late at night with a friend. A gang of white suspects were accused but the courts failed to convict due to lack of evidence. Excerpts from this book follow:

The same gang had stabbed a white boy unprovoked just a few weeks earlier. “Neil said to Mattie something like ‘Did you call me a wanker?’ When Mattie said he hadn’t, Norris pulled out ‘what looked like a miniature sword with about a nine-inch blade’ … Stacey asked what was going on. Dave replied ‘Shut up you cunt,’ stabbed him and ran off.”

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Helen Andrews

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Aug 8, 2024

Amazing used bookstore find: an oral history of the U.S.S. Indianapolis disaster (made famous by the Jaws monologue) as told by survivors.

“On the fourth day, a boy from Oklahoma saw the sharks eat his best friend, and I suppose that was more than his brain could stand. He took his knife, which was about 12 inches long, placed it in his mouth (like Tarzan in the movies), and started chasing sharks. They would stay just far enough ahead of him that he couldn’t touch them. He would go under for long periods at a time, making us wonder whether he would come up. I don’t know how long this went on, but sooner or later, I noticed that he wasn’t around.” —Sherman C. Booth

“While we were in the raft, I looked at the sailor next to me. He was dark from all the black oil and we didn’t recognize each other. He turned out to be my best friend from Hurley High School, Charles Bruneau, gunners mate, third class, Fourth Division. We had joined the navy together. He was in bad shape and did not say a word. I put my arm around him to hold him up. He stopped moving. I called Dr. Haynes. He said, ‘Charles is dead.’ We had to put him overboard. I never had the heart to tell his parents he almost made it. I told them I did not see him.” —Lloyd Barto

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Jan 20, 2024

Interesting piece on the lawyer for the Scottsboro Boys, who, apparently, in his earlier career as a New York defense attorney, won acquittals for many clearly guilty people including Al Capone. But the article repeats some common misconceptions about the Scottsboro case itself.

https://twitter.com/tabletmag/status/1748413924678967702

It is usually said the Alabama jury convicted the nine solely on the word of Victoria Price, who claimed she was hoboing on a freight train with Ruby Bates when a dozen black boys climbed in from another train car, threw some white boys out of the moving gondola, and raped them.

But the prosecution had more than that. Multiple eyewitnesses along the train route saw the fight in the gondola car. One farmer saw the ejected white boys walking down the track, faces bloody. Another saw into the gondola for a second just as a black figure threw a woman down.

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Jan 16, 2024

Not many people know that if Congress had not passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chief Justice Earl Warren was prepared to step in with a Supreme Court decision that would have accomplished much the same thing. A thread from Boomers. 1/7

The cases Bell v. Maryland and Barr v. City of Columbia involved sit-in protests at private lunch counters and hinged on whether the owners’ actions in removing the protesters were unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment as they would have been if it had been gov't property./2

Chief Justice Warren thought so. He believed the public/private distinction collapsed the moment the owner called the police. “To say that the policy is merely ‘private’ ignores the fact that without the State it could not survive,” he wrote in an unreleased draft opinion./3

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Dec 19, 2023

We had an amazing 2023 at @amconmag. As an editor, I'm always looking for pieces that couldn't be published anywhere else. TAC has a unique mission and a special contribution to make. Lots of articles this year hit the mark—here are a few examples: /THREAD

10. @JuliusKrein's review of Sam Gregg genuinely advanced the debate over “market fundamentalism” and the New Right. The last third of the piece is a sweeping retelling of a century of economic history, which made a lot of pieces fall into place for me: theamericanconservative.com/the-last-gasp-…

@JuliusKrein 9. BLM and antifa took over a slice of Seattle and declared it an “autonomous zone” called CHAZ. Within days a teenager was murdered. Nobody cared. Jonathan Ireland wrote this indignant essay about it: theamericanconservative.com/a-murder-in-ch…

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Dec 17, 2023

My takeaway from this book, Animal Welfare in China, is that the stereotype ("If it has four legs and is not a chair…") is basically true, and Americans who oppose animal cruelty should realize what a big cultural gulf exists here. amazon.com/Animal-Welfare…

"Dogs and cats are often victimised out of sheer malice. A college student microwaved a live puppy following an argument with his girlfriend. A man in Weihai, Shandong drove for miles dragging his dog behind his car… A Changsha policeman beat a golden retriever to death in broad daylight on the last day of 2017."

Dogs are stolen off the street to be eaten, because raising dogs for meat is not cost-effective.

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