No, he's not a racist but he's the worst kind of liarberal
scum and prejudice nonetheless. I live in DC and those
several shootings included black police officers too not just
white ones doing the shooting and they were investigated by
black and white officers ... nobody dismissed it out of hand
as George P implies. I also find it hard to make "several"
out of three incidents in the 10 years of my first hand
memory and more when you toss in a friend of mine's who has
lived here much longer ... granted maybe there are several
within a lifetime here, but that's many decades and I bet
there are very few large cities that won't have the same
tragedies on their record books as well. George is
trivializing a very serious issue as you've written it.
White's are a small minority in the city and in the police
department. All cases were investigated and while the
situation was no less tragic no police officer was found to
be at fault for their actions. Even the mother of one of the
victims asked everyone to forgive the police officer that
accidentally shot her son.
If George P is writing it literally as you said it, he needs
to apologize to the citizens of DC, the police department,
and his readers for playing so easily with the truth in order
to sell a book.
volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
"... down these mean streets a man must go
who is not himself mean, who is neither
tarnished or afraid."
--Raymond
Chandler (1888-1959)
Hardboiled
http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrill Lankford
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:20 PM
>
> By "one of those" I take it you are implying that
George is a
> racist, which
> could not be further from the truth. And when he
used the "N" word, he had
> quotes around it. He was talking about the cops'
state of mind
> which led to
> these bad shoots, not his own opinion of the black
race. He was
> being critical
> of the attitude, not the race. (And I'm not sure
what motivates
> your particular
> usage of the word.)
>
> Either you have terribly misread this statement or I
have
> terribly misread your
> letter. If it is the latter, I owe you an apology.
If it's the
> former, you owe one to George P.
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