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A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as "banana-eating" and a "bumbling jungle monkey" has been placed on administrative leave and faces losing his job
A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as "banana-eating" and a "bumbling jungle monkey" has been placed on administrative leave and faces losing his job
As well he should. There is no place in our world ( as well as his line of work) for racism.
A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as "banana-eating" and a "bumbling jungle monkey" has been placed on administrative leave and faces losing his job
A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as "banana-eating" and a "bumbling jungle monkey" has been placed on administrative leave and faces losing his job
He definitely should lose his job, its people like him that prove that racism is alive and kicking. Why would you as a police officer say something like that when an officer is already accused of being racist? What an idiot!
that was very stupid. although i have been racially slurred many times by AA in my former profession in public in front of my supervisor and nothing happened whatsoever to that person nothing whatsoever. EEOC sword does not cut both ways.
If he said it, then he's got to accept responsibility. I think his thoughts are disgusting and I do not agree with his choice of words or his meaning.
Having said that... the question I would ask to all of our civil libertarian friends is what was illegal about what he did? Answer: Nothing.
Having said that...if he sent the mail off duty from his personal e-mail account, is it the business of the Boston Police? Answer: Nope.
I think he's an idiot, but he has the right to be an idiot just as much as Gates has the right to be an idiot. When we start punishing people because of their private (off duty and not in an official capacity) speech, isn't that a slippery slope?
When we start punishing people because of their private (off duty and not in an official capacity) speech, isn't that the slippery slope?
I had the same opinion until I learned that it was a mass email that he sent out, not a private one. In addition, he sent his comments to a newspaper for publication.
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