This morning, I'm bobbing to Ludacris on V-103 via Internet radio, and suddenly this crazy press conference cuts the song off and tunes in. I'm thinking it's about the 17-year-old young man who was sentenced to jail for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl. They are working hard down here in Atlanta to free him because the bill that forced him to be jailed has expired. Or, something like that.
But no. The press conference was to reveal that Wayne Williams, the man suspected in the 1980's Atlanta child murders, is actually guilty. In the 80's, there was speculation as to whether or not this man was wrongly accused because of his color, and because he had committed a murder at the time when the child murders were rampant.
But he's the right one. Ok. Yes, breakthrough stuff. Utterly amazing, and great work, people. I appreciate that it was all cleared up and gives closure to the families of the slain children.
But they went on. And they went on....and on...fussing with each other as to the locations of certain evidence from the 80's...asking kooky, dumb, and repetitive questions...cutting each other off, pointing, accusing, just wrecking havoc. At a press conference. 16 hours long. In the middle of the workday.
I'm like, where did my music go? Music?
Music?
Music?
Moral of the story: If you want a person to listen, don't interrupt the music! You've been to the prom before...you could cause a riot! And I was already mad that Pandora isn't on today...don't make me come up there!
For a terrific fictional novel on the Atlanta child murders, read one of my favorites, "Leaving Atlanta" by Tayari Jones, writer extraordinaire!!
Oh, yea. And SAVE INTERNET RADIO!
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The conference this morning was about much more than re-telling the world that Wayne Williams was responsible for the Atlanta child murders. It was about re-telling the world that no one knows who was responsible for the Atlanta child murders. The fact that the evidence did not definitively state that the DNA fiber came from Sheba reiterates the fact that Williams might not be the mass murderer that the police have proclaimed him to be. While reading another article about the situation, I came across this quote:
"I think he (Williams) was too close to the scene too often with his camera," says Brooks, who sometimes helped get civil rights luminaries to appear on the radio show that a teenage Williams broadcast from a station in his garage. "I just think he was a convenient scapegoat." [http://www.truthinjustice.org/wayne-williams.htm]
I believe this to be true. If the police hadn't arrested a black man for the murders, a race riot would have broke out in Atlanta. I understand that you want to bump to Ludacris but the truth is that the Wayne Williams case is important enough to stop the music.
Thanks for your input, Ms. Monica.
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