RIP Chuck Berry

[Jemmy Bloocher]

I'm with Jesse on this one.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I don’t really see what her being a prostitute has to do with it.  She
> could be a cannibal who fights dogs when she isn’t busy burning churches,
> and she would still be a child.  If a man sleeps with a prostitute and it
> happens to be a child, or if he has sex with a child and it is used against
> him by an inherently racist system, he is still having sex with a child.
> It’s not unfair that he went to jail for it, it’s unfair that others should
> have and didn’t because they didn’t share his status or skin color.
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> *From: *Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Monday, March 20, 2017 at 3:46 PM
> *To: *Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com>
> *Subject: *Re: RIP Chuck Berry
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> The 14 year old girl was a prostitute. After the first mistrial she was
> arrested in another city for prostitution. Who knows what really happened
> 50 years ago, but the charge of bringing a minor across state lines to have
> sex was brought to show an uppity Chuck Berry where he stood in society,
> not to protect the morals of the girl.
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> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Did he not have sex with that girl?  Seems like there are several other
> articles that said he did.  I read a few before posting anything about it
> to make sure I wasn’t misremembering something.  I don’t doubt for a second
> that the prosecution was aided by him being a black man, if it had it been
> Elvis, there would have been no jail time.  Jerry Lee Lewis caught a lot of
> flack, but never actually went to jail for his child-bride either.  Doesn’t
> mean he wasn’t having sex with that girl though.
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> *From: *Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Monday, March 20, 2017 at 8:44 AM
> *To: *Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com>
> *Subject: *Re: RIP Chuck Berry
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> The only reason he went to jail for violating the Mann act was that he was
> black:
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> http://heavy.com/entertainment/2017/03/chuck-berry-why-did-go-to-prison-
> jail-sentence-in-1960s-violate-mann-act-prostitution-tax-evasion/
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> And the bathroom videotaping was a stupid thing to do but hardly rises to
> the charge of pedophilia.
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> He was a great creative artist in the 1950s. He was not a great human
> being. But not a reprehensible villain.
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> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I was in prison with some child molesters that could paint beautiful
> paintings, but they were pedophiles, not artists. I don’t disagree that
> Chuck Berry was a great musician.  He was incredibly talented and
> influential, but I feel like taping women while they shit in his
> restaurant, and having sex with 14-year-old girls, negates most of what a
> person does.
> I’m weird like that.
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> On 3/20/17, 1:47 AM, "owner-pynchon-l at waste.org on behalf of Thomas
> Eckhardt" <owner-pynchon-l at waste.org on behalf of
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>     Am 20.03.2017 um 03:33 schrieb Jesse Gooch:
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>     > Yeah, and after doing all of that travelling he got wealthy enough
> to secretly videotape women going to the bathroom.  Kind of a scumbag.
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>     Yes. Also a great artist.
>     -
>     Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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