Yeah - Wikipedia has a good article on it too. The real guy, Zantzinger, has gotten into loads of trouble in recent years and is serving more time now then he did when he killed her...but it seems like Mr. Z is so hated just for being mean cause some reports say he didn't hit her & others say if he did it wasn't near hard enough to kill the lady...that she was literally scared to death by him & died of a heart condition.
i love the juxtaposition of this song with Percy's song on biograph, even though bobby probably wasn't responsible for that
@CoryGreenwell Good call on the back-to-back placement of Hattie Carroll and Percy’s song, two meditations on the American “justice” system.
@CoryGreenwell Good call on the back-to-back placement of Hattie Carroll and Percy’s song, two meditations on the American “justice” system.
He doesn’t shove it down our throats but it’s clear that if someone is rich and/or white, they’re probably going to receive leniency while the opposite will probably happen to someone without the ways-and-means is more likely to be locked up and forgotten about.
He doesn’t shove it down our throats but it’s clear that if someone is rich and/or white, they’re probably going to receive leniency while the opposite will probably happen to someone without the ways-and-means is more likely to be locked up and forgotten about.
Yeah - Wikipedia has a good article on it too. The real guy, Zantzinger, has gotten into loads of trouble in recent years and is serving more time now then he did when he killed her...but it seems like Mr. Z is so hated just for being mean cause some reports say he didn't hit her & others say if he did it wasn't near hard enough to kill the lady...that she was literally scared to death by him & died of a heart condition.
i love the juxtaposition of this song with Percy's song on biograph, even though bobby probably wasn't responsible for that
@CoryGreenwell Good call on the back-to-back placement of Hattie Carroll and Percy’s song, two meditations on the American “justice” system.
@CoryGreenwell Good call on the back-to-back placement of Hattie Carroll and Percy’s song, two meditations on the American “justice” system.
He doesn’t shove it down our throats but it’s clear that if someone is rich and/or white, they’re probably going to receive leniency while the opposite will probably happen to someone without the ways-and-means is more likely to be locked up and forgotten about.
He doesn’t shove it down our throats but it’s clear that if someone is rich and/or white, they’re probably going to receive leniency while the opposite will probably happen to someone without the ways-and-means is more likely to be locked up and forgotten about.