Oh most certainly he should talk about it, as it is undoubtedly a contributing factor to the incident. The fact that he even felt the need to bring it up says much about how he personally feels he has been treated by the police. But in bringing it up, that means that the entire incident needs to be gone over with the investigative equivelent of a scanning electron microscope to be sure that all the other factors are not glossed over or forgotten about, and to determine the validity of the charge and the culpability of the offers involved on each factor, as a seperate issue.
In short, it's a huge tangled knot that needs to be sorted out before anyone starts jumping to conclusions. Race is one issue amongst many, one thread in the tangle. As Derrick Jensen says in his book "The Culure of Make Believe (http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Make-Believe-Derrick-Jensen/dp/1931498571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248898591&sr=1-1)" (Published in 2004): "When you pull on the thread of racism, you find the 3 or 4 other threads in the knot move in response which you hadn't thought were connected to it, which you then have to go investigate." As I've mentioned before, it is Jensen's theory that hatred felt long enough and deeply enough by a culture, no longer feels recognizable as hatred, but becomes disguised as tradition, which makes it difficult for those under it's influence to recognize it for what it is. Hatred clouds our perception of reality and prevents us from seeing the world as it really is.
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on 2009-07-29 08:27 pm (UTC)In short, it's a huge tangled knot that needs to be sorted out before anyone starts jumping to conclusions. Race is one issue amongst many, one thread in the tangle. As Derrick Jensen says in his book "The Culure of Make Believe (http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Make-Believe-Derrick-Jensen/dp/1931498571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248898591&sr=1-1)" (Published in 2004): "When you pull on the thread of racism, you find the 3 or 4 other threads in the knot move in response which you hadn't thought were connected to it, which you then have to go investigate." As I've mentioned before, it is Jensen's theory that hatred felt long enough and deeply enough by a culture, no longer feels recognizable as hatred, but becomes disguised as tradition, which makes it difficult for those under it's influence to recognize it for what it is. Hatred clouds our perception of reality and prevents us from seeing the world as it really is.