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Race – Still Newsworthy
By Jeremy | November 28, 2006
"Although Bell and another of the wounded men, Trent Benefield, 23, were black, [Mayor Michael] Bloomberg said it doesn't appear race figured in the early-morning shooting. Two of the five officers who opened fire are black, two are white and the officer who fired the first shot is Hispanic."But,
"Bloomberg acknowledged the mounting anger over the fatal shooting of yet another unarmed black man. 'The community is outraged, and I am, to put it mildly, deeply disturbed,' he said."At issue is how and why five police officers could fire 50 shots at three unarmed men, regardless of the color of their skin, and what, if any, role did race play in rousing suspicions about them. But the usual race-baitors, led by the indominable Rev. Al, couldn't help themselves:
"'[Amadou] Diallo, 41 shots. This is 50 shots,' said Charles Aziz Bilal, a spokesman for Guzman's family and the imam of the Al-Han-Dullah Mosque in Queens. 'What's next, 60 shots, 70 shots, 90 shots? When will it stop?'"In other news, Kramer Michael Richards is in full-fledged damage control, appearing repeatedly to apologize for his racist rant at a comedy club. To their credit, Rev. Jesse Jackson and others are calling for forgiveness and reconciliation in the wake of Richards' apparent contrition, even as they encourage him to seek treatment and healing for his racial outrage. Michael Rooney, a black comedian who helped popularize the use of the N-word, has even sworn off all future use of the N-word and the B-word in his act, and he's urging other black entertainers to do the same. A personal plug: I spent nearly four hours on Saturday watching Eyes on the Prize, the outstanding PBS documentary about the Civil Rights movement. That should be required viewing in high schools throughout America, if not every home as well.
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