Hurricane, the Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter

Methodically Hirsch persuasively detailes how Carter was targeted. But they picked the wrong guy to mess with and battled to the end. Like in the ring, Carter would do whatever was necessary to bring down the curtain on those that set him up. Relentless, he never gave up and his greatest fight of all lasted almost a lifetime.

If one were not clear what judicial and law enforcement conspiracy and kangaroo court means, Hirsch’s “Hurricane” painstakingly breaks down the story of a prime example.

The big question Hirsch addresses is why? What purpose did it serve to be target him? A justice system harboring deep-seated racism, incompetence, and sadistic vengeance sets the table. The “why” he examines was to make an example of boxer Rubin Carter, a black man in a largely segregated white controlled city.

Carter was a big fish in a small-town. Carter was confident, successful and didn’t kowtow to anyone (why would he?). He was a massive boxing talent, one of the best of all time. He fought in a blood sport to provide for a better life for himself and family and did so for a while, just as his accent to the championship belt was within grasp and yanked from him.

A gripping story of life, loss, love, and waste.

Carter was a powerful symbol of black power and threatened the gentry class by burying the lie by keeping him buried in prison.

He was quoted as saying, “Hate put me in this place, love got me out.”