Bob Dylan
"How many roads must a man walk down before he can be called 'man' how many cannon balls fly before they must be discarded forever? how much time some people must live before you are allowed to be free, how many times must a man lift his head before he can see the sky? " ( Blowing in the Wind , Bob Dylan)
The song keeps intact the power and freshness at birth was back in 1963. The author himself used to introduce it in other words, no less emphatic, every time I began to sing:
"I believe that among the large number of criminals there, you can tell those who return face when they see and know evil is evil. I have no more than twenty-one and I know they are already too many wars, You who have more, you should know even better. Now, the best way to respond to questions from the song is exposing. "
Dylan's influence on music, values, styles and dynamics that revolutionized life on this planet since the early sixties, has been extensively addressed by thousands chronicles, reports, analysis, documentaries, and has been studied by sociologists and prolifically regarding art and culture.
Very rarely, what are appeals outburst of youthful expression have been charged so great clarity, sharpness and have been so shocking as to shake the company globally human. From the simplicity with which the author outlines his ideas, just armed with a mellow voice and a guitar, comes to reproached his generation, and the world that then happens, immoral and exhausted all effective in certain ways. Racism, violence, impunity, irrationality are shelled in common songs, always placing its referent, distracted man in front of the most obvious and catastrophic traces of its own self-degradation.
With the boxing theme, Dylan takes his sharp knife to the bone of two controversial issues. The racism that cuts across the history of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter , medium between 1961-1966, who beat Emile Griffith (KO1), and Jimmy Ellis among others and was jailed for nearly twenty years, accused of a triple homicide allegedly committed in 1966 and that in 1988, the same prosecutors in New Jersey ended by withdrawing the charges. The song "Hurricane" (The Hurricane) dates from 1975 but Dylan, with Muhammad Ali, have been leading the public denunciation of the racist nature of that sentence long before.
The remaining work of Dylan "Who Killed Davey Moore?" uses boxing as the center of a reflection on the nature and aberrant schizophrenic which involves the holding of shows merely distracting where "play" with the lives of human beings. The reference plane is here the infamous fight held in Los Angeles, in 1963 for the WBC featherweight title and the WBA champion from that moment, the American Davey Moore (no relation to namesake chronic anterior the fight with Roberto Duran), and the No. 1 ranking and undefeated Cuban living in Mexico Ultiminio Zaqueira Ramos (a) Sugar Ramos. The fight ended in victory for Ramos for giving up the champion who did not come out to dispute the eleventh assault. Despite walking out of the ring on his own, and even giving interviews to reporters for another 40 minutes, Davey Moore, "The Little Giant" of Springfield, Ohio, desvanesció later and was admitted to a hospital where he remained unconscious for 4 days , eventually dying because of a fractured skull base. Neurologists determined that the location of the lesion, this could never be caused by a blow to Ramos. Subsequently concluded that the first fall, when the champion fell back, the accidental blow to the bottom rope was as a kind of karate chop, applied precisely and so strangely that would have been difficult repeat. As occurred after other tragedies in boxing, regulatory changes made it more attractive as the obligatory quilting every corner ropes and rope and add one quarter to reduce the incidence of such injuries occasional falls.
artistic coherence of this operator is not directed against the values \u200b\u200bof the sport of boxing, which is usual Dylan follower and practitioner, but against "the business" of irresponsible fun and hilarious and against sad folly of man, when the practice of any activity claims to have taken a wrong as "the intimate way of being," without having previously reviewed the degree of responsibility assumed by a change in the rate of distraction in which leaves and relaxes his conduct.
How much has improved the world from Bob Dylan? That could be the bold question unanswered, we always remains Floating in the Wind
"The Hurricane"
by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy
is
heard gun shots on the night of bar,
Patty Valentine from the upper floor.
Go to the waiter pulled into a bloodbath, exclaims
crying "God they killed them all!"
And there begins the story of The Hurricane,
the man the authorities came to blame
of something he never did.
They threw in jail, although I could ever
have been the world champion.
Patty sees bodies lying there are three and
man named Bello lurking mysteriously.
"I did not," he says, and raises his hands
"I was only robbin 'the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them when they went" he says, and says nothing more
" Someone of us should call the police "
And Patty calls the police
and arrive at the scene with their red lights lanterns at night
hot New Jersey
While very away on the other side of town,
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends traveling with the car. Challenger
number one middleweight crown
has no idea of \u200b\u200bthe kind of shit to come.
When the police do stop roadside
As happened a thousand times before
in Patterson is the way things happen
If you're black would be best not to take to the streets
unless you want to lead.
Alfred Bello had a partner who had debts with the police.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley walked casually out there.
said "I saw two men running away, they looked like
middleweight, jumped into a white car
's patented another state. "And Miss Patty Valentine confirmed with
head. And the policeman said" Guys, wait a minute,
this man is not dead "and took him to the infirmary .
And though this man could hardly see
told he could identify the guilty man.
is
heard gun shots on the night of bar,
Patty Valentine from the upper floor.
Go to the waiter pulled into a bloodbath, exclaims
crying "God they killed them all!"
And there begins the story of The Hurricane,
the man the authorities came to blame
of something he never did.
They threw in jail, although I could ever
have been the world champion.
Patty sees bodies lying there are three and
man named Bello lurking mysteriously.
"I did not," he says, and raises his hands
"I was only robbin 'the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them when they went" he says, and says nothing more
" Someone of us should call the police "
And Patty calls the police
and arrive at the scene with their red lights lanterns at night
hot New Jersey
While very away on the other side of town,
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends traveling with the car. Challenger
number one middleweight crown
has no idea of \u200b\u200bthe kind of shit to come.
When the police do stop roadside
As happened a thousand times before
in Patterson is the way things happen
If you're black would be best not to take to the streets
unless you want to lead.
Alfred Bello had a partner who had debts with the police.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley walked casually out there.
said "I saw two men running away, they looked like
middleweight, jumped into a white car
's patented another state. "And Miss Patty Valentine confirmed with
head. And the policeman said" Guys, wait a minute,
this man is not dead "and took him to the infirmary .
And though this man could hardly see
told he could identify the guilty man.
Rubin Carter, yesterday and today
Four of the morning, and arrested Rubin,
take you to the hospital and make it up the stairs.
The wounded man looks with one eye dying
says, "What brought him here? This is not the guy!"
If this is the story of The Hurricane,
the man the authorities came to blame
for something he never did.
He was cast into prison, but may once have been
world champion.
Four months later, the ghettos are burning in flames,
Rubin walks through South America, fighting to earn a
name While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still out playing thief
And police trying to cover, find someone to blame.
"Do you remember the crime that occurred in the bar?"
"Do you remember you saw the car of fleeing?"
"Do you think you would like to play the game within the law?
" do you think it could be that fighter that escaped that night?
"Do not forget that you are white"
Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure."
The police told him "a poor guy like you should use it, you
lie Case of the motel and we talked to your friend Bello Now
not want to have to go back to jail, be a good boy.
should do a favor to society. That
hijodeperra is brave and will become worse.
We want to kick his ass
We buckled him this triple crime.
's not the " Jim Knight."
Rubin could finish an opponent with one blow
But never liked to talk too much about it.
is my job, he said, and I do it because they pay me
And when completed, the sooner I'll go somewhere else,
to some paradise
where trout abound and the air is pure
and can ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to prison
where they tried to turn a man into a mouse.
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance.
The trial was a farce, never had a chance to defend themselves.
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the suburbs.
For whites was a bum who looked tough,
and brown peers was just a mad black.
Nobody doubted that he had pulled the trigger.
And though they could not bring up the weapon,
the prosecutor said he was the one that shaped the
and single-white jury agreed.
Rubin Carter was tried in a fraudulent manner. Charged
degree murder one, guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they blatantly lied
and newspapers and radio stations, all joined to sing in chorus. How
the life of a person such
may be in the palm of the hand of a madman? Seeing
cornered so obviously that
can only make me feel ashamed to live in
a land where justice is a hobby.
Now all white collar criminals
roam free to drink martinis and watch the rising sun
While Rubin sits like Buddha in cell 3 meters
an innocent man in a living hell.
This is the story of The Hurricane,
but will not be completed until they clear his name
and give him back the time that he has lost.
thrown into prison, but once
may have been the world champion.
take you to the hospital and make it up the stairs.
The wounded man looks with one eye dying
says, "What brought him here? This is not the guy!"
If this is the story of The Hurricane,
the man the authorities came to blame
for something he never did.
He was cast into prison, but may once have been
world champion.
Four months later, the ghettos are burning in flames,
Rubin walks through South America, fighting to earn a
name While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still out playing thief
And police trying to cover, find someone to blame.
"Do you remember the crime that occurred in the bar?"
"Do you remember you saw the car of fleeing?"
"Do you think you would like to play the game within the law?
" do you think it could be that fighter that escaped that night?
"Do not forget that you are white"
Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure."
The police told him "a poor guy like you should use it, you
lie Case of the motel and we talked to your friend Bello Now
not want to have to go back to jail, be a good boy.
should do a favor to society. That
hijodeperra is brave and will become worse.
We want to kick his ass
We buckled him this triple crime.
's not the " Jim Knight."
Rubin could finish an opponent with one blow
But never liked to talk too much about it.
is my job, he said, and I do it because they pay me
And when completed, the sooner I'll go somewhere else,
to some paradise
where trout abound and the air is pure
and can ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to prison
where they tried to turn a man into a mouse.
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance.
The trial was a farce, never had a chance to defend themselves.
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the suburbs.
For whites was a bum who looked tough,
and brown peers was just a mad black.
Nobody doubted that he had pulled the trigger.
And though they could not bring up the weapon,
the prosecutor said he was the one that shaped the
and single-white jury agreed.
Rubin Carter was tried in a fraudulent manner. Charged
degree murder one, guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they blatantly lied
and newspapers and radio stations, all joined to sing in chorus. How
the life of a person such
may be in the palm of the hand of a madman? Seeing
cornered so obviously that
can only make me feel ashamed to live in
a land where justice is a hobby.
Now all white collar criminals
roam free to drink martinis and watch the rising sun
While Rubin sits like Buddha in cell 3 meters
an innocent man in a living hell.
This is the story of The Hurricane,
but will not be completed until they clear his name
and give him back the time that he has lost.
thrown into prison, but once
may have been the world champion.
Who Killed Davey Moore?
(Who Killed Davey Moore?)
Who
killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says the referee,
"I do not point the finger.
I could have stopped in the eighth and perhaps
had saved from his fate,
but the crowd would have booed,
am sure
unable to enforce their money.
is very sad that had to die,
but I was also full of pressure, you know
. I did not go which made him fall.
No, you can not blame any mode. "
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
" We do not, "says the grieving crowd.
Whose screaming inflated the stadium.
" It's a shame he died that night.
just wanted to see a fight.
insinuábamos that will not seek death.
just wanted to see a little sweat.
There is nothing wrong with that.
No, not we who did fall.
No, can not blame in any way. "
Who
killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says her manager,
honking his big cigar.
"It's hard to say, it's hard to mention,
always thought it felt good.
Too bad for his wife and children
is dead now, but if
was wrong should telling me.
was not me that did it fall.
No, you can not blame in any way "
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says the gambler,
with a piece of the ticket still in his hands.
"I was not that knocked him to the canvas.
My hands did not touch him, ever.
not committed any heinous sin, even
I bet any money she earned.
It was not me who made him fall.
No you can not blame in any way. "
"Not me," says the referee,
"I do not point the finger.
I could have stopped in the eighth and perhaps
had saved from his fate,
but the crowd would have booed,
am sure
unable to enforce their money.
is very sad that had to die,
but I was also full of pressure, you know
. I did not go which made him fall.
No, you can not blame any mode. "
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
" We do not, "says the grieving crowd.
Whose screaming inflated the stadium.
" It's a shame he died that night.
just wanted to see a fight.
insinuábamos that will not seek death.
just wanted to see a little sweat.
There is nothing wrong with that.
No, not we who did fall.
No, can not blame in any way. "
Who
killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says her manager,
honking his big cigar.
"It's hard to say, it's hard to mention,
always thought it felt good.
Too bad for his wife and children
is dead now, but if
was wrong should telling me.
was not me that did it fall.
No, you can not blame in any way "
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says the gambler,
with a piece of the ticket still in his hands.
"I was not that knocked him to the canvas.
My hands did not touch him, ever.
not committed any heinous sin, even
I bet any money she earned.
It was not me who made him fall.
No you can not blame in any way. "
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says the journalist,
charging the ink on your old machine.
saying "boxing is not to blame,
is just as much danger in a football match"
saying "boxing is here to stay,
that's the old way of being American.
It was me who made him fall.
No, you can not blame in any way.
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says the man whose fists
put him to sleep in a cloud of mist,
who came here from the Cuban land,
where boxing is no longer allowed.
"I hit him, yes,
but for that they pay me.
Do not call it 'murder', and not say 'kill'.
only was the destination, will God. "
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
___________________
"Not me," says the journalist,
charging the ink on your old machine.
saying "boxing is not to blame,
is just as much danger in a football match"
saying "boxing is here to stay,
that's the old way of being American.
It was me who made him fall.
No, you can not blame in any way.
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
"Not me," says the man whose fists
put him to sleep in a cloud of mist,
who came here from the Cuban land,
where boxing is no longer allowed.
"I hit him, yes,
but for that they pay me.
Do not call it 'murder', and not say 'kill'.
only was the destination, will God. "
Who killed Davey Moore, Why and what were the reasons?
___________________
certainlythat the best way to respond to questions from the songs of Dylan, as he puts itself above quote from the singer is singing them. But in the case of Rubin Carter, one might add that the strength of the testimony of his life should speak for themselves, and be a sufficient response.
If it was or was not guilty, as debate continues even today with running references for and against , and which invariably is followed by filtering the racial issue from the beginning, would be totally irrelevant in light of two elements of reality: Rubin served a term of imprisonment greater than that would have gone for the crimes he was charged and for which he was convicted, and that because of his good conduct should have been released much earlier. In another order, the testimony of the human figure emerging post of captivity, the man of the dimensions "human" and above-average sensitivity, is a pattern of profound injustice which involved the subjugation of their guarantees dark individual. Needless
reflect the light of this evidence life, if the judicial and prison sitema American made the mistake of releasing a triple homicide or whether they led to the imprisonment of an innocent person for nearly twenty years.
Carter, far from being the person injured or ruined by an atrocious injustice, is even today a man of exemplary public image. He settled in Toronto, and received two honorary doctorates in law by a Canadian and an Australian university. Until 2005 he was president of the Association in Defence of the Damned unfair manner (Association in Defence of the wrongly Convicted - ADWC ). Looking for a late repair, the city of New Jersey declared the Hall of Fame boxing and in 1993 the World Council (WBC) was awarded an honorary world champion belt. Carter's story was filmed in the movie "The Hurricane" of 1999 under the direction of Norman Jewison and starring role by Denzel Washington. The other side of the coin in an effort to defuse any racial motivation and document the integrity of the court case that led to Carter to prison from a story perspective, addresses the generality of controversial issues from the website Cal De to .
Alfred Valentine and Pat Bello
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