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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59341)	7/24/2009 1:12:10 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) of 149317

I was struck by Gates comment on some news show that the incident made him realize what - "black men, all people of color, and poor people" face. He is not making this merely a grevience about himself or merely black me, though clearly that is a huge issue, but universallizing (that a word?) the over-reaching of some police and others who have power over others towards all those 'less than'. It is akin to the connections that MLK Jr drew. We don't have many blacks to pick on here, that was 'dealt with' long ago. Even the latinos moving in aren't the main target of our police... it is poor whites. We've had a case of 2 police officers responding to situation where a man's pigs were in the road. The man was in his 70's. 70's. He 'talked back' to them and they tasored him. Then they tasored a woman in her 60's. I forget what her 'offence' was. You'd think the far right who worries of a police state would be concerned about this incident... but that might be where some's racism enters.

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