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

[Joe Allonby]

I'd go along with Richard on this one. I'm sure the cop would have
preferred not to arrest the Harvard professor and then have to go
through all the bureaucratic nonsense and media circus to follow.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:47 AM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say cops hate paperwork, period.
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> On 7/29/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> 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
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>>> no more than the cop's equal.  Gates isn't a stupid or simple man.
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>>> is TRP.
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