Jens 'n' Frens
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"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
  -- Daniel Webster



Wednesday, July 09, 2003 :::
 

My brother notes that Dusty Baker suggested that blacks and latinoes prefer playing in the heat (this is what it sounded to me like he said; not, as seems to be reported, that they like it better than white people do, but that they like it better than more moderate temperatures); he went on to suggest that was why blacks were brought over here in the first place, which is historically suspect but seems to echo Jimmy the Greek pretty closely. And this, I think, is the there there, the feeling that he should be disciplined because a white guy who said the same thing would be.

My first thought, though, was the same as Volokh's: "I wonder whether that's true." (This was on hearing what he supposedly said, before hearing the actual extended clip. That black people in general actually do prefer the nineties to the seventies would surprise me somewhat, but I'm sufficiently confident of my ignorance not to let it shake me too much.)



::: posted by dWj at 10:06 AM


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