Tony Ortega - Pete Hamill
Village Voice
May 5, 2010 - June 13, 1968
Excerpts:
-We found ourselves in a long grubby area called the pantry. It was the sort of place where Puerto Ricans, blacks and Mexican-Americans usually work to fill white stomachs.
-It was just another digit in the great historical pageant that includes the slaughter of Indians, the plundering of Mexico, the enslavement of black people, the humiliation of Puerto Ricans.
-While the cops made chalk marks on the floor of the pantry, the brave members of the National Rifle Association were already explaining that people commit crimes, guns don’t (as if Willie Mays could hit a homerun without a bat). These cowardly bums claim Constitutional rights to kill fierce deer in the forests, and besides, suppose the bleep come to the house and we don’t have anything to shoot them with? Suppose we have to fight a bleep man-to-man?
America the Beautiful: with crumby little mini-John Waynes carrying guns to the woods like surrogate penises. Yes: the kid I saw shoot Kennedy was from Jordan, was diseased with some fierce hatred for Jews. Sam Yorty, who hated Kennedy, now calls Kennedy a great American and blames the Communists. Hey Sam: you killed him too. The gun that kid carried was American.
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https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/05/05/pete-hamills-eyewitness-account-of-robert-kennedys-assassination/That you should never let a crisis go to waste is nothing new.
The bleeps are for the N-word he used.
