Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:
>A national tragedy is that such a country as ours, founded in the deepest statements
of equality and justice for all, have such LAWS on the books that
allow such events
not only to happen but to go tragically--sic---unpunished,
uninvestigated, unaccountable
to 'the moral law within and the stars above". So far.

actually Florida doesn't always just take their word for it
this was a local foulup even under stand your ground

>Literary thoughts? I think of Cormac McCarthy most as a writer who has given us self->styled, self-justifying 'street' violence as evil everywhere...
>My literary callousness---and I know it is---is to remember Eudora Welty's story about >Emmet Till's murderer and to wish that someone would add to the massive righteous >outrage over Trayvon Martin's murder with a story trying to put down on the page >Zimmerman's head full of hate. (That's what Welty's story tried to do. )
>Talk about a Candlebrow wish....

never read that, so far...probably worth a read
-- hey, btw, Ishmael Reed's got a new novel out thru Dalkey Archive!

>
> Michael, I wish I could have gone--made the sacrifice to go-- to the protest and visited you as well.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

my niece went.    I saw part of it on tv and cried like a fountain.
Doubt that makes any difference to the family, but it did to me.

(long passage from Joyce might not be balm for everybody either, but
what's in there is really great, and bound up with the uncreated
conscience and very relevant imho)


hey if you do get to town let me know.

actually, any p-lister coming to Orlando interested in meeting up,
I'll buy you a coke somewhere if it's humanly possible...maybe even a
beer...