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echo: barktopus
to: Gary Britt
from: Mark
date: 2005-09-04 23:11:08
subject: Re: New Orleans Police Finally Manage To Shoot Somebody

From: "Mark" 


"Gary Britt"  wrote: ...
> Mark that's simply not a true statement.  "Easily be"
implying an equal
> chance that it was white crackheads.  Mark you and even John and Rich know
> in your hearts that just isn't true.  Sometimes you need to take all the
> politically correct blinders off and stop pretending what isn't true is
> true.  Its just too Orwellian.

I'll give you that, it's a 67% (or higher) probabilty that they were black,
while it's only a 10% probability that the helicopter occupants were.

> You are definitely too idealistic, because you've convinced yourself that
> there IS a difference between saying the perp drove a green Chevy versus
> saying the perp had black/brown skin tone and the features of an African
> American and ran away on foot.  There is no difference, they are merely
> identifying characteristics.

No, I think you misunderstood me (perhaps my fault), I didn't say that I
wouldn't also describe the alleged perpatrator as whatever he was, white,
black or asian etc., only that race wouldn't be foremost on my mind and
never has been.

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