Having dissed an excerpt from Lydia Howell's article in Pulse on the August 22 riot/mellee, I really wish people would read the whole thing:
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=123&mode=nested&order=0 She quotes a number of Powell family members and people in the neighborhood who witnessed the shooting. Not unbiased sources, some of you will say, but they are are an enormously important part of the picture. Remember that this was the whole "Media portray us as animals" quote: “Media portray us as animals,” states Tracey Williams, president of Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorder, a 68-year-old African-American newspaper. “They rarely have us as eyewitnesses. When we’re allowed a voice, they pick the most upset person—to discredit us.” When the mainstream press doesn't interview eyewitnesses, a big part of the story is being given only by the alternative papers. And alternative papers are going to have the political point of view that brought them into being in the first place. People who don't like that might ask why the mainstream papers largely leave out eyewitness accounts of events such as the shooting of Julius Powell or the shooting of a 19-year-old man the week before. The Spokesman-Recorder also has an article on the August 22 conflict (which seems pretty balanced to me): http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=14844&sID=4 (go to http://www.spokesman-recorder.com and click on "Media 'outsiders' take brunt of Northside hostilities") Rosalind Nelson Bancroft _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
