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Before Game One, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley bet New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a Chicago deep dish pizza pie against a New York subway token that the Bulls win in six or less. Rudy agreed, and even threw in a coupon for a Papaya King...
Since taking office, Giuliani has crippled the Civilian Review Board and supported the New York Police Department (NYPD) in all actions, at best ignoring and oftentimes supporting white supremacist officers in their destruction of civil rights. When the New York Civil Liberties Union found that the number of police brutality claims had risen 32 percent in one year during his tenure, Mayor Giuliani did not rush to scrutinize his army in blue, but blasted the report...
...most troubling aspect of this rampant violence is the attitude of white New Yorkers. Most continue to support the police department and Giuliani in spite of the Mayor's racially polarizing politics and supremacist actions...
...right or authority to monitor the police department, I begin to wonder about the "democracy" in which I reside. When I see white New Yorkers and the media--with the single exception of the Village Voice--ignoring the rise in police brutality cases and praising the Giuliani administration's "tough on crime" stance, I wonder what kind of community the United States...
...still feel, however, that there is hope for humanity's most radical experiment. The nation can be saved before becoming the greatest tragedy in recorded history. But this can only happen if European-Americans no longer rely on demagogues like Giuliani, Gingrich, Wilson and Buchanan for the cathartic feeling of being fed lies packaged in pretty phrases...