Pynchon's "White Negro" view of Watts & Scooby-Doo too

[David Morris]

Cops hate having their authority challenged, period.   Add to that an uppity
black man with persecution identity (race, class, and victim-history) and
Gates is lucky he didn't get shot.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> If the reports of are accurate, then class privilege underlies the Gates'
> arrest at least as much as the racism that may have caused Gates' neighbor
> to call the police to begin with.  One would be hard-pressed to find a more
> shining example of academic/upper class than Gates; taunting a cop who has
> come to your house because they were called by a neighbor wouldn't be
> undertaken by anyone who wasn't drunk, stupid, or who considered themselves
> no more than the cop's equal.  Gates isn't a stupid or simple man.  Neither
> is TRP.
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