re kyle k on rodney king thf kimbark uchicago edu ted frank writes in article c nh hp news cso uiuc edu kkopp uxh cso uiuc edu koppenhoefer kyle cramm writes thf kimbark uchicago edu ted frank writes in article c lp y fdk news cso uiuc edu kkopp uxh cso uiuc edu koppenhoefer kyle cramm writes how about the fact that you have a bunch of cops putting their lives on the line day in and day out who are afraid as hell of a large black guy that took a large amount of punishment and refused submit i m curious why you think that particular adjective is important i m curious why you took a beign statement and cross posted it to several different news groups including something along the lines of alt discrimination exsqueeze me i saw your original post in alt discrimination your post was cross posted to three groups my followup was cross posted to two of those three omitting soc motss now instead of engaging in meta discussion off the topic could you answer the question posed if your statement is so beign you should have no trouble politely responding to a polite query well i don t think your query was exactly polite but i will try to give you a polite responce something atypical of the net but here it goes black is a descriptive adjective that describes mr king from many of the newspaper radio and tv news reports i have seen this adjective is commonly in front of his name i have never seen anyone complain about the use of this adjective when used in a benign manner i did not say that mr king was a no good black i do not know mr king and would not make this ascertian without some evidence to this effect i used it purely as a descriptive adjective in the same manner than many most news people have used it in the past the entire second trial was about race ted i don t feel compelled to discuss mr king s racial background but had mr king been white there would not have been a second trial you probably are saying that the beating would not have occurred if he were white but that is an extremely difficult call to make it is possible the case but not definately i still think your actions are crap ted they are far more divisive than me using the adjective black in a non derogenory manner would you have been happier if i had used african american if so then you really are lost in the world of pc you have already been instrumental in getting one persons net access revoked and i wonder if you have sent a copy of my message to my sys admin with a plea that i am not worthy of posting the way you went about this polite inquiry makes me believe it was anything but
