Back to Racism in the South
Jay Bookman wrote a column in the AJC this week about racism in Georgia ‘heard’ at the Masters this year.
Congress just extended portions of the laws giving the Federal government power to stop institutional racism in the former slave states.
And, this morning Houston is coming clean over the “Ghetto Handbook” created allegedly by six district officers and the entire first shift patrol.
The incident had been kept under the radar for several months.
Nothing in the ‘Ghetto Handbook’ surprised anyone. Just the usual crude stereotypes of blacks as ignorant sub-human animals that are used somewhere in the South everyday.
Details from the Gainesville Times
August 31st, 2007 at 8:14 am
Mad Dog, I read the article you posted. I couldn’t find any comments presented by the officer as not accurately representing much of what I hear when I find myself in those crowds. What comments did you think were inaccurate?
Just as LeftHook wondered in another thread what the pay was for “bathroom” monitoring duty, I don’t think there could be enough pay for me to deal with these folks on a regular basis.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:35 am
He wanted to call it “ebonics” but that was already taken by some textbook publisher probably.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:42 am
http://tinyurl.com/3572l8
August 31st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Hey Hugh!
I think it was an attempt at humor.
Which that is the point.
Let me restate it in a more neutral way.
Cops should not go into pet shops and beat on the glass of the fish tanks with a night stick. It ain’t funny.
Then, we have the issue of cover up.
Had they NOT punished the officer three months after the even, it pays differently.
I’d rather the response had been, “It was handled immediately by picking up the booklets. That put the officer on proper notice that his humor failed. No further action was needed.”
But, if I read the accounts, and I read at least two, nothing was done until the upper levels became involved.
The point?
Police in Houston have to “deal with these folks on a regular basis.”
Sorry to put you on the skewer. I don’t think I could deal with racists all day long, nor with criminals, nor with alcoholics.
Maybe that is what you’re really trying to say.
“I can’t deal with people not just like me.” Which is normal, human behavior.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Is it even possible that there were no Black officers in the room? I wonder what their reaction was.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Mad Dog,
Thanks for your additional comments. Not bad at all. I would say I can deal well with people not like me, but I do much better with “others” if they are not like those described in the article.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Hugh,
David O and I exchanged some stark emails. I am an ass. I like being an ass.
Maybe I can change.
I would have a very, very hard time dealing with someone just like me. Eh?
Give ‘em, Hugh. I bet you can, when other people give you the chance, deal with very difficult people very well.
Happy Friday PM!
August 31st, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Mad Dog,
Thanks, again for your comments! MOST SINCERELY!!
I find myself often misconstrued. I sincerely like, or am receptive to ALL folks, on a “micro” level, ie one on one. If you caught a comment on a previous thread, I volunteered for army duty in Africa, and I loved it. I spent 18 months in Africa. But I also realize humans relate on a group level, ie “macro”, and therein lies the rub. Not all the groups can coexist peacibly!
September 1st, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I got your back, MD
September 1st, 2007 at 10:09 pm
“I got your back, MD” — same thing Craig said to the cop…are you sure you’re not a GOPer David?
September 1st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
lol