Saturday, October 25, 2008
Black Bodies Politic in Paris, Texas
Texas Dragging Death May Mave Been a Racially Motivated Crime
Associated Press
In a gruesome case with powerful echoes of the dragging death of James Byrd a decade ago, a black man was killed underneath a pickup truck in East Texas and two white men have been charged with murder. Paris is the same Texas town in which a black girl was sentenced to up to seven years in a juvenile prison for shoving a teacher's aide at school. That same judge sentenced a white girl to probation for burning down her parents' house.