--- On Sat, 7/25/09, Paul M Moriarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Boston and The People Republic of Cambridge are separated
> by a river, but worlds apart. The media in their desire to make
> hay try to lump them together.
>
> There was a black police sergeant on the scene who backs up
> Crowley 100%. But I'm sure he's just an Uncle Tom tool of
> whitey, right?
Most of the commentary I've seen sums it up about right: both parties could
have handled it better. The black sergeant commented that if he had been the
one to show up first he expects it would have not escalated - and that if it
had he, too, would have arrested the Doc. IOW, the doc got his back up in part
because it was a white cop in his house, and the white cop could have
recognized that himself and backed off. There was a paucity of thought given
by both folks to the racial sensitivities of the other, and too much
sensitivity to race in the entire situation.
I think there is an age component in this as well. Folks over a certain age
have lived in times when race was a more often a more direct component of life
than it is today, folks under a certain age haven't lived in that world. I
think this line lies somewhere around fifty years old by today's reckoning, and
these two folks were on either side of that line.
But WTF do any of us really know about what happened in this one small
situation, anyway.
-chris
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