While doing the daily read of Lawrence Auster's website, I came across the following link. It is a full-text reprint of Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni's remarks at an event commemorating the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings. Incidentally, I saw the end of her remarks via WDBJ video, and was impressed. Instead of sniffling, she seemed almost defiant, a stance with which I agree.
The author (and several commenters) wanted to know what, among other things, a reference to an "Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized" meant. It would seem that the author and/or commenters believed that the reference was fictionalized or simply the ravings of a barking moonbat. Not so.
Without regard for the other substance of Professor Giovanni's remarks, I can explain the reference to the Appalachian infant. It is a dreadful story, one that sparked a spot of irritated annoyance with the company in my circumstance. A toddler, three year old Jeremy Davidson of Inman Hollow near Appalachia, was killed in his bed when a boulder of ~1,000 pounds rolled off a nearby coal mining site and struck the trailer in which he was sleeping on the night of August 20, 2004.
A press release from the Commonwealth's Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy describing their findings is here; the DMME found that, "[the site operator] demonstrated gross negligence by committing the following unauthorized actions that resulted in the death of Jeremy Kyle Davidson.
Posted by Country Pundit at April 21, 2007 09:21 PM | TrackBack