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''N-----, what are you doing out of your neighborhood?,'' the cop taunted.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Today, too many people still echo the quote listed in the title to this blog entry at least in their minds. Longer ago, many more people -- police included -- would openly verbalize such thoughts.  Born in 1920 to a former slave, at the age of thirteen Percy Sutton was handing out NAACP leaflets in an all-white neighborhood, apparently in his home state of Texas.  The cop taunted Mr. Sutton: ''N-----, what are you doing out of your neighborhood?'' The cop then beat him up.  Flash forward to 1977 -- when I was close to the age that Mr. Sutton had reached when he was beaten by the cop -- during the heated New York Democratic primary race for mayor, when I was in the New York television viewing area, and when I had not yet gotten as cynical about politicians as I am today, having viewed Nixon more as an aberration than as the possibly logical conclusion about much of what goes wrong with politics and politicians...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).