Advice for the New Mayor
Stern, William
Cove, Peter
Kotkin, Joel
Savas, E. S.
Biederman, Daniel
McCaughey, Elizabeth
Heinemann, H. Erich
Brooke-Hitching, Harley
Moss, Mitchell
Nathan, Richard
Zuckerman, Mortimer
Cornuelle, Richard
Mahoney, Margaret
Berger, Stephen
Wriston, Walter B.
Morris, Charles
Crouch, Stanley
2007
Stanley Crouch Author, Notes of a Hanging Judge
The media tend to dwell on incidents of racial hatred. But far more often, people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds risk their safety to help one another. A black guy is attacked by white thugs on Staten Island, and Italian guys come out of a pizza place and help fight them off. A white woman is mugged on the subway and a young black and Hispanic guy catch the mugger, bring the woman back her purse, and hold the mugger for the police. A Jewish guy's van catches fire in Brooklyn, and a couple of young black guys go into the van and save the driver's children. | |
As mayor, you should publicly celebrate these humanitarian acts. They are far more representative of what's really happening than the hysterical ideas about ingrained racial hostility that the media pump out. | |