Ted--I just want to let you know that I called and I suspect many others called after Dick Feagler's Sunday column [1]to cancel their subscription to the PD. Here is Dick Feagler's logic in a nutshell: if you see a black person, run away. He calls it realism. I call it racism.
Phillip Morris--why are you apologizing for your racist colleague? [2] Let him speak for himself. Is your employer, the Plain Dealer (Cleveland came off the masthead), forcing you to apologize for his comments? If so, that would be the ultimate outrage.
Phillip Morris states: Crime happens. Especially in big cities and the suburbs that ring them. Part of saving the region involves the realization that crime isn't about race and that the solution isn't about running.
Brutal behavior surfaces in all cultures and nationalities. [3] It's time we acknowledge our capacity for evil.
This city, this region, this country needs to recognize our failure in raising children. [4] [4]
Links:
[1] http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion-0/1199525691285720.xml&coll=2
[2] http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/119978486255261.xml&coll=2
[3] http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/looking_at_ludlow_shaker_neigh.html
[4] http://li326-157.members.linode.com/Request-for-feedback-on-intergenerational-living-and-learning-neighborhood-development