On the Road With Bob Dylan (2010)
“For in Hurricane Carter, the troupe found a cause that conjured up the old days of Dylan and Baez and civil rights rallies down in Mississippi. Once again, a black man was getting fucked.
Carter was a dynamic boxer, probably one of the most exciting fighters of the ’60s, with his Fu Manchu moustache-goatee and his stone-shaved head. Dylan sings “Rubin could take a man out with just one punch,” and that’s really no exaggeration. He’s a stocky man, 5’8” and 155 pounds of solid rock. He won 27 of ...his 39 professional bouts, 21 of them KO’s, but unlike most of his black counterparts in the ring, Rubin was no Mr. Nice Guy outside the canvas. He had a “problem childhood,” namely early tastes of poor environment, gang cohorts, police run-ins, reform school crime educational courses, the whole rags-to-rags story. But then, what the social workers call his “antisocial behavior” was channeled into prizefighting and Rubin did well enough to drive around in a monogrammed black Eldorado.MoreLess
Carter was a dynamic boxer, probably one of the most exciting fighters of the ’60s, with his Fu Manchu moustache-goatee and his stone-shaved head. Dylan sings “Rubin could take a man out with just one punch,” and that’s really no exaggeration. He’s a stocky man, 5’8” and 155 pounds of solid rock. He won 27 of ...his 39 professional bouts, 21 of them KO’s, but unlike most of his black counterparts in the ring, Rubin was no Mr. Nice Guy outside the canvas. He had a “problem childhood,” namely early tastes of poor environment, gang cohorts, police run-ins, reform school crime educational courses, the whole rags-to-rags story. But then, what the social workers call his “antisocial behavior” was channeled into prizefighting and Rubin did well enough to drive around in a monogrammed black Eldorado.MoreLess
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