Display the way it was, specifically because he was a random victim. All the more terrifying that way, right . Its because the klan, the ku klux klan in that part of alabama wanted to show their strength. They wanted to show what they were capable of and one of the attackers, one of the klan members who took part in that murder, he would explain later in court that he and his coconspirators were specifically hoping that this murder would not just generically terrify africanamericans in mobile, alabama, they were hoping it would specifically intimidate africanamericans into not participating on juries. They wanted black americans in alabama to be too afraid to show up at the courthouse and sit for jury duty. They wanted allwhite juries in alabama. They thought that killing 19yearold Michael Donald would be a good way to terrorize the black community in alabama into achieving that or at least getting them part of the way there. One of the klansmen who confessed to that murder, who confes
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In the 1980s, before gentrification, before Portlandia, Portland, Oregon was a sleepy city that existed outside of the national spotlight. Skinheads had always been part of the local punk scene. In the late 1980s, punks and skins started being recruited by national white supremacist organizations, and that organizing work took off.
Whoopi Goldberg hosts the June 10 presentation and screening - based on a true story of the murder of an Ethiopian college student killed by racist skinheads, the film is about the pain and personal triumph of a son left behind; the screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s directors.