White man with AR-15 O.K. - Black guy, well.....

[Joe Chi Minh]

31. In complete contrast to the bunch of police cowards. Just look at them!

The first one, seemingly in a state of terror from start to finish, had his gun aimed at the black lad who was prone on the ground, with his hands stretched out in front of him. He didn't move one step forward from his car door, looking as if he wanted to feel he could duck behind it or dive inside the car, if the lad could miraculously manipulate his rifle to fire at him from that position, before he could pull the trigger.

The second one, sneaked alongside a parked semi--trailer - behind the lad, as if fearing the same thing. It even seemed as if the one who picked up the rifle from the ground half-expected it to have a life of its own and shoot him. No. I've just checked. He walked up to it quite briskly But walked BACKWARDS, either to keep an eye on the spot where it had been lying, or the man's wife. In fact, they all still faced her with guns half trained in front of them.

I expect much of what they did was doing it by the book, but what a bunch of wusses to feel the need to carry on like that. It didn't seem to occur to the first one to take his eyes off matey just for a second or two, from time to time, to check he didn't have a mate somewhere behind him ready to shoot him stone dead. He looked as if he was wetting himself, as it was.

Anyway (or 'anyways', in deference to American parlance), the white guys know that, man for man, the blacks would knock seven colours of sh*t out of them in a fist fight or a street-fight, so it's amusing how the Hollywood film-makers had to have the black detective in the Jackie Chan film speaking with a very high voice; and in Get Shorty, Travolta get to beat up a black guy who looked as if he'd have eaten him for breakfast in real life. Some film producers must think it an American male's kind of G-Spot, to have the white star seem more macho than a black supporting actor.