Music Icon Lester Chambers assaulted after dedicating a song to Trayvon

[nolabear]

Music great Lester Chambers dedicated "People Get Ready" to Trayvon Martin last night onstage at a blues festival. A woman in the crowd literally assaulted him onstage.

I don't like to start outrage threads but it seems to me we suffer an astonishing ability as a country to tell ourselves that "THEY" are going to riot, to cause harm, to create terror even as "WE" are the ones committing the acts.

A 73 year old man, a wonderful performer and advocate, dedicating a song of hope rather than one of rage, and it gets him sent to the hospital. Dear God...

http://www.examiner.com/article/classic-rock-musician-lester-chambers-assaulted-on-stage-at-blues-festival

[dballance]

1. And so it begins.

Evil person. Why can't he dedicate a song to an innocent dead child! Racist jerk probably.

[Just Saying]

2. I hope she was arrested.

And is thrown in jail!

What is wrong with people? Have you no decency?

[nolabear]

3. Replying to say his son reports he's okay.

A photo shows some nasty bruising on his side but apparently he's not very badly hurt. I SO want to say something snarky but I think that's what we have to stop doing and try hard to talk about some real ways to stop this kind of thing and the feelings that lead up to it.

[Laurian]

4. I can't seem to find any information about

the woman who attacked him. Was she apprehended, identified, arrested? These right wing hate mongers "always get away".

Disgusting.

[nolabear]

5. I noticed that too, and I don't know what that's about. But she may not have gotten away.

I wouldn't go there. If I find out I'll post.

[Waiting For Everyman]

6. It's like a real-life metaphor for this moment.

Always like the Chambers Brothers, now even more, for his gesture of the dedication to Trayvon and for all he's been through, and he's still making music.

This incident is like the best and the worst in humanity, in one confrontational moment. Very bizarre, these days.

Forgive me for posting this at a time like this, but this song of theirs always evokes the 60's for me, and some younger people here won't know who the CB are. They were superstars of their day and spoke for all of us young people, of every color. It stayed on the charts for 5 weeks in 1968. In dedication to Lester...

I like their defiance and their love and humor, all at the same time. That's what the spirit of the 60's is to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chambers_Brothers

[suffragette]

7. There's much to be outraged about here

From this hateful assault on Chambers to Trayvon being killed and his killer let off and going back to Chambers not receiving the royalties due to him for his creative work.

Thanks for the post nolabear. K&R