Re: Boston's three centers

["j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

I really don't know Kestas, but if it were a white cop and I was 
legitimately parked illegally, I'm quite sure I wouldn't try turning the 
volume up on my radio or, failing that, try to close the window on the 
policeman's arm. That seems like just about one of the dumbest things you 
could possibly do.

It is unacceptable IMHO that a millionaire kids feels above the law and 
common decency just because the cop isn't the same race as the majority who 
shape decisions in the justice system. It's disrespectful to your own race 
to think you can get away with that terrible attitude. Yes Kestas this was 
just my personal take on it, and no I'm not asking anyone else to share it.

Cheers,
Joe

****
At 09:21 12/07/01 -0400, you wrote:
>--- You wrote:
>That has to do with the incident where he turned up the music on a black
>cop asking him to move his SUV, then shut the window and dragged the cop
>down the street. That's the worst kind of intra-racial disrespect and I
>truly hate that kind of stuff (like Asian Americans who refuse to be seen
>with other Asians).
>--- end of quote ---
>
>I don't get it - why does everything have to be racial with you, Joe? If the
>cop had been white, then the cop, Battie, or both, are racist. If they're both
>black, then it's "intra-racial disrespect". Maybe you know something I don't.
>But my guess is the pig was simply doing what pigs often do - harass 
>people for
>no other reason than that they can. The cop is working a a lucrative detail,
>sees a young millionaire ballplayer pulling up in his fancy SUV, and 
>decides to
>show him who's the boss. Tony, being what he is, wants to hear none of it,
>shuts his window, and starts rolling away. Or maybe the cop had a legitimate
>complaint. In any case, I don't see why this incident is simply not a case of
>the cop, Battie, or both, overstepping their boundaries because of, shall we
>say, tendencies common in their respective occupations.
>Kestas