Monday, December 3, 2007

I’ve read the story in the Baltimore Sun, and derive from it the following set of rules governing race relations in modern America: If a black fireman says that white firemen have left a threatening note and a drawing of a noose for the black fireman, the white firemen have committed a federal civil rights violation and a crime that can send them to jail; it’s also an occasion for the city’s black mayor to declare publicly that the white firemen have engaged in “an act of hatred and intimidation.” But if it turns out that the black fireman forged the note and the drawing in order to level a false accusation of a hate crime against the white firemen that could send the white firemen to jail, such false accusation is not a crime or a federal civil rights violation. It is, at the very most, an “unfortunate act of misconduct” that might (might) cost the black fireman his job.
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