the guy by the door …

The Boston Globe wrote the following:

“‘Chuck is naive,’ Wilburn said in an interview at the Globe. ‘The only thing I said to him was, ‘Take your wife out to dinner.’ It’s conceivable that it could have been a gift or a campaign contribution.’

“He went on to further distinguish between the two cases, saying: ‘Dianne [Wilkerson] is a thief. Chuck isn’t. Dianne knew better. Chuck is a victim of circumstance.'”

Jack Pramas¹ of Open Media Boston has more.

The Support Chuck Turner website announced a teach-in Tuesday February 24, 6:30 – 8:00 PM Cafeteria Roxbury Community College Student Center. About 100 people attended. It was a Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Honkie Holdover Hippie crowd. Charles Clemons, co-founder of Boston’s only Black owned radio station Touch 106.1 FM announced his Walk for Power. Chuck was characteristically electric. Lady Enchantress performed her song Changes [Video on her site].

¹Jack quite properly includes a full disclosure of his relationship with Chuck. My own is nowhere near as extensive. I will just tell one brief story.

We had gathered at Faneuil Hall to confront the government scientists and PR hacks^I about the proposed construction of a Bio Safety Level 4 Lab in Boston’s South End neighborhood. After the gummint made its presentation there was a public testimony. People lined up to get to the microphone. It was a racially mixed crowd, but unified in opposition to the lab. Nonetheless, the black people ended up at the back of the bus – except for State Representative Gloria Fox who went first. Chuck Turner was in the back of the line with his constituents. The gummint had a young under assistant twit in charge of trying to limit public testimony constantly cutting people off. I worried that they would close the place down before Chuck had a chance to speak. Claire Allen, co-chair of Safety Net, thought it would be OK to try to move Chuck up the line, but Gloria told me, “He won’t come. He won’t leave his constituents.” He finally did speak with fire the under assistant twit had no hope of putting out.

^IIt was very hard to tell the difference between the scientists and the PR hacks.