Surprisingly sound advice coming from Rudy.
blacks want us teach all created equal while they continue to teach hate. its been that way all the time. racism is a business for profit.
Apparently, Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant James Crowley missed that issue of The New Yorker...This postgraduate education for police officers...
Uh, Nat, Crowley TEACHES such 'postgraduate' education on avoiding racial profiling. Sometimes, it is just the fault of the other person, not the cop.
Isn’t Nat Hentoff a PBS liberal?
What he says doesn’t cut any ice with me.
Hentoff has a point here - it is a violation of basic rights to frisk someone on the street without any probable cause. But, then again, Rudy has always been an authoritarian control freak when it comes to the Bill of Rights.
Clearly, Mr. Giuliani remains unteachable on this subject. As I reported during his dramatic mayoral career...
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Blah, blah, blah...who was it that cleaned up NYC, you maroon! Reality doesn’t matters to these loons.
I'm not sure why Mr. Henthoff is calling this "black parents'" advice ... it sounds like good, common sense to me. Is he perhaps unable to get past the fact that Colin Powell is a black guy?
As long as there is a Nat Hentoff, there will always be racism.
I HOPE black parents are telling their children the truth, that is:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Republican.
- Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
- The NAACP was founded by a white man.
- It was the Republicans, not democrats, spearheading the Civil Rights movement, and supplying the votes for its success.
FTA: “In Nassau, along with 30 hours of training on cultural diversity in the police academy...”
Why isn’t there an equal or larger amount of training in the schools and neighborhoods about respecting the authority of the cops and not creating a bad situation by being confrontational?
One of the biggest reasons that the blacks vs cops meme continues is Hollywood’s portrayals in movies and television shows. Perhaps they need to accept their fair share of the blame.
Hmmmm...
It might, Nat, but only if you're willing to accept a lower level of policing in predominantly black neighborhoods. More violence, more crime, more young black men murdered by other young black men. Is that where we want to go?
—As for blacks’ encounters with police nationally, in 1995, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (before he became a household name) wrote in the Oct. 23 New Yorker magazine: “It’s a commonplace that white folks trust the police and black folks don’t.—
Wrong again, Skip. I wasn’t raised to be color-conscience, only cautious around strangers—as most children are raised. I was raised to respect law enforcement, the military, and others who take an oath to serve and protect. I was taught that law enforcement was there for us when in trouble. Option 1 was grabbing one of dad’s guns, if available and necessary.
First off, people like this get press but are NOT speaking for ALL Americans who happen to be black. I had this quote put on a plaque and it hangs in my home office:
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“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.)
What do you mean “Surprisingly”? Giuliani is the most pro-police, anti-crime mayor New York ever had. Just because he’s been labeled “not conservative enough” here, doesn’t mean it’s true.
It’s true...racism hasn’t gone away...its stronger than ever... except this time its coming from them....
Colin Powell acted stupidly.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (before he became a household name) wrote in the Oct. 23 New Yorker magazine: "It's a commonplace that white folks trust the police and black folks don't.
Hardly universal. I'm white & I despise cops.
Hentoff writes for Hustler. Therefore, anything he says has no value whatsoever.
What moron wrote this story, Reverend Wright?
The author, in his snarky derision of the good Sgt, ignores (or missed) the fact that he was and is an instructor for other officers on how to deal with racially charged situations and how to avoid profiling. Of course, when the facts don't fit the agenda, why bother including them...
And on CNN, Colin Powell chimed in with his advice to black children: “When you’re faced with an officer who is trying to do his job and get to the bottom of something, this is not the time to get in an argument with him. I was taught that as a child.”
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Plenty of white folk were taught that as a child, too.