Globe, BPD Respond to Racist E-mail
Do not expend any energy wondering when Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis and soon-to-be ex-cop Justin Barrett will be meeting for their own beer summit. Trust Bostonist on this because they aren’t meeting to reconcile any time soon after Barrett described Henry Louis Gates and Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham as a “jungle monkey” in an e-mail he actually sent to Abraham after her column about Gates and his recent arrest. Commissioner Davis quickly acted by suspending Barrett and initiating the termination process. Davis asserted Barrett’s due process rights in a public statement on Thursday. Today on Boston.com, Abraham described the e-mail Barrett sent , which she deleted, as “an anonymous rant” that “didn’t even stand out” among
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Globe, BPD Respond to Racist E-mail
Not only did Barrett prove he is a racist (I wish I had a dime for every racist who denies being a racist) he also hurt any chance the Boston police departmet had of convincing us that there was no racial profiling involved when Professor Gates was approached in his home.
Had we, as a society, a bit thicker skins, we would broadcast these lunacies far and wide, with an appropriate apology to the more sensitive among us, demonstrate a little Common Sense for our fellow man, and let the fringe element drown in the laughter and public ridicule generated by their own thinking or lack thereof. Along with the right to free speech comes the right to make a public fool of oneself; and like the naked, fools have little or no influence on society.