Many of you, as I did, enjoyed the movie "The Hurricane", starring Denzel Washington, in which he won a Golden Globe for. I thought the movie, the story and everything about it was great. Then, much to my dismay, I one day came across some information about the entire movie being un-true. I kept researching, thinking "this can't be", but unfortunately there was too much evidence to come to any other conclusion other than the movie "The Hurricane" and the book written by Rubin Carter "The 16th Round", were both completely and utterly false. I came across legal documents, public records, recorded statements, and even some people who had known Rubin Carter personally.

I thought, surely Denzel Washington doesn't know of any of this. Well, that wouldn't be entirely false, according to what has been stated in various sources, Mr. Washington refuses to hear any evidence whatsoever that may damage his idea of a "hero". Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was anything but a hero. In fact, you too may have a different opinion of the movie and of Mr. Carter after reading the facts I've collected.

I am just presenting the facts to you. I am not making any statements to his guilt or innocence. That is for each one of us to decide for ourselves, but you deserve to know ALL the facts, so that you can make your own determination.

I didn't single this movie or case out for any other reason than I just happened to "stumble" onto it one day. And, from there it escalated into massive research that I thought should be brought to the attention of the public.

There is quite a lot of information to give you, so be patient if this article seems to be getting quite long. I think you'll find it hard to stop looking at the facts once they're in front of you. That's what happened to me anyway. I've included all the sources that have been provided to me under the appropriate article of evidence or fact.

Rubin Carter trashes the movie "The Hurricane" because America can't handle a portrayal of a strong black man:

Carter complains in this BBC radio interview that The Hurricane movie was watered down because the portrayal of Carter as a strong black man was too much for the racist United States.:

"When I first saw (the movie, The Hurricane) it was about three hours long. And that film was a very strong film. But as the movie company began to show it, they began to get suggestions like, "the Canadians are not developed enough" and the movie’s already three hours, so in order to develop somebody, you got to get rid of something, and they got rid of the most poignant scenes in the movie itself because they did not understand. Because the movie was too strong of a Rubin "Hurricane" Carter movie. It was too strong for a black man in the United States. Because black people’s depiction on the big screen is usually Amos and Andy, Superfly, or Jimmy Walker, or one of these comic buffoons, you see, but when you get a filmed depiction, they can’t swallow that and therefore they must dilute that thing so they serve this up."

-- BBC5 "Electric Journey" radio interview, Summer 2001

Ok, now..."Who" is the prejudiced one among us? Answer for yourselves:

"What happened to me with that Kelley woman has shown me that the next female I become involved with for whatever reason will be a cow! Because a cow won't deceive you; won't argue with you, and won't double-cross you either... and if a cow makes you mad for any reason whatsoever, you can kill and eat it! So a cow is really the way to go."

(Carter's prison diary, quoted in Hurricane, by James S. Hirsch)

"Jimmy (was) happier than a fag in a Turkish bath." 

The 16th Round 

"I am a survivor of the criminal justice system in the same way in which those who survived the awful Holocaust of Nazi Germany survived... Only in Germany people were destroyed and imprisoned because of their religion. In this country it's because of the colour of our skin,'' Carter said.

Reuters, May 26, 2000 

"The United States is a prison."

"In fact, State-sponsored executions are so prevalent in this country that they’re don’t even — they’re not even given a mere mention in the newspapers anymore. It’s not unlike Nazi Germany in 1939 during the Night of the Broken Glass."

WBUR Radio, Boston, Feb. 23, 2000 

"Texas is demonstrating a forerunner of a Final Solution, just as
it happened in Nazi Germany from '39 to '45, loading up the prisons
with illiterate people, loading them up with the disenfranchised,
loading them up with the disadvantaged.''

-- The Charlottetown Guardian, Dec. 10, 1998


"(Carter) charges that, unlike white women "who are coming in here (to prison) every week to visit their men -- both white and black," black women for the most part have forsaken their men behind bars. "As a result," he says, "we have a lot of black males in this prison who are having a hard time being black men," a reference to what he calls "rampant homosexuality" throughout New Jersey's prisons. "Perhaps if some of those black sisters out there would walk in here and bring their womanhood into prison...."

Ebony Magazine, Dec. 1974 

"You talk like a champ, but you fight like a woman who deep down wants to be raped!"

Carter taunts Emile Griffith, pre-fight interview, 1963

Let's NOT forget Denzel Washington's famous tribute to Rubin "Hurricane" Carter during the Golden Globe Awards. When introducing Carter and bringing him onstage, Denzel says; "This is a man of LOVE".

(Quotes and Information from Cal Deal and Lona Manning Websites; Used with permission)