TFW you realize they didn't lock him up for a decade or force him to seek to live in a foreign nation or embassy. Not minimizing his contribution to our nation, and I'm glad he didn't face those horrid things.
Journalist whose book about US marines in Iraq was adapted into acclaimed HBO series killed himself on Friday
“Whenever I see victims of these programs speak out, I always think, ‘That’s my brother or sister,’” he wrote on X the day before he died. “I feel a bond with anyone who went through this. Then I saw Paris Hilton’s testimony and I realised, ‘Oh, shit she’s my sister, too?’ But yes, it’s a big, messed up family of us.”
“I failed at everything else,” Wright once said of journalism. “I was optimistic. It was a refuge for rogues and miscreants. So far, it has exceeded my expectations.”
In 2003 he was sent to Iraq by Rolling Stone and embedded with the Marines’ 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Bravo Company. His journalism resulted in the book Generation Kill, which he adapted into an HBO miniseries with David Simon, the creator of The Wire. In the show Wright was played by the actor Lee Tergesen.
Ah, the sweet sound of corruption. What a nice gift from someone appointed by Trump to a powerful and well-paid position. I can hear Anastacia singing on the judges’ radio: “I paid my dues.”
With him having money, living in a well-off part of the town, and being driven in a limousine, he probably never experiences the open, daily racism that “normal” PoC face every day.
No American policeman is going to shoot the guy in the back seat of a limo with driver just for “being black” and “looking suspicious”.
Cool, my rent is still 70% of what I make in a month. It’s almost like it’s already too late, but I’m too poor and uneducated to be an expert. Got any other ideas?
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