Word: cincinnatis
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...been nearly five weeks since a white Cincinnati policeman gunned down Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old, unarmed black man. But instead of easing with time, the racial tensions in this city just keep bubbling to the surface...
Dead now, dead for years. I ought not to think about her. I should be thinking of China and the returned air crew of the spy plane. I should be thinking about the Cincinnati riots. There is Tiger Woods to think about, and the start of the baseball season; Pedro vs. Clemens up in Boston the weekend of my mother's death; I watched, half watched...
...Cincinnati riots, Broder believes, should have moved Bush to say something concerned and statesmanlike. "The incident was local but the problem of police-minority relations is national - and important. Bush had a perfect opportunity to lay down a marker for his administration and the country and to shape the kind of discussion this issue needs in every community...
...Broder says that Bush's failure to speak up on such matters as the Cincinnati riots means the President is neglecting "a vital element of democratic leadership...
...Better to show respect for the individual facts of individual situations. Better to show that respect that is evident when a president assumes that the American people are adults, that they understand the complexity and inevitable abrasions of, say, police-community relations in a town like Cincinnati, and that they do not expect their president to be Elton John, singing to them in maudlin quavers...