BBC Report: Wait, Bob Marley's dead?

Evidently you don't have to have been living in a cave for the last 25 years to not know that Bob Marley is dead; you only have to work for the BBC. For an upcoming documentary on his song "No Woman, No Cry" the BBC requested the participation of the revolutionary singer in order to make the program "work."

Bob Marley, selfishly died of cancer (or at the hands of the CIA) to avoid partaking in a BBC documentary about him.


That reminds me of Spanish class in ninth grade. Our assignment was to learn about the life of a Latino(a) hero. I really wanted to do my project on Roberto Clemente, but some fat kid got him instead. When it was time for the presentations, the fucking fat kid didn't even know if Clemente had died or not! Neither did the teacher!!! I didn't even correct them, because I was too stupefied to say anything.

Clemente's life was epitomized by his death. On New Year's eve in 1972 (I knew this in ninth grade, he had been one of my heroes for a long time by then) Clemente boarded a plane from Puerto Rico to Nicaragua, where a deadly earthquake had just occurred, to give supplies and of himself. Tragically, his plane crashed, and his body was never found. Clemente finished his baseball career with a magic number of hits, 3,000 and as the inspiration for not only Latin American ball players for generations to come, but everyone who has heard his story. Fucking fat kid!

Get Up, Stand Up . . . or Not
Washington Post
Here's the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22107-2005Apr2.html