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...bomb is better than resisting arrest or taking a swipe at a police officer," Walczak says. "But what we're seeing too often is that police who are offended by a lack of respect, often manifested by profanity or cursing, will punish people for that." (Read Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Henry Louis Gates Jr. affair...
Opening the Racial Floodgates I take offense at Ta-Nehisi Coates' article "When Race Matters" [Aug. 10]. Why is everyone apparently overlooking the fact that Henry Louis Gates Jr. immediately started mouthing off and playing the race card? A cop's job is tough enough. Why couldn't he have simply answered the officer's questions and said, "Thanks for looking out for us"? Jimmy Doich, RALEIGH...
...take offense to Ta-Nehisi Coates' article "When Race Matters" [Aug. 10]. Why is everyone overlooking the fact that Henry Louis Gates Jr. immediately started mouthing off and playing the race card? A cop's job is tough enough. Why couldn't he have simply answered the officer's questions and said, "Thanks for looking out for us"? Jimmy Doich, RALEIGH...
...Color of Defeat In "What If He Loses?" ta-nehisi coates reflects on the "loud sucking of the teeth" and "resignation" with which Barack Obama's defeat would be met by the black community [Oct. 20]. If Obama loses the election, the disappointment will be widespread and multiracial because voters will have chosen to continue down a path of political, fiscal and diplomatic disaster. Let's dispense with the black-white distinction. We're all Americans. Peter F. Hartwick, Candler...