[lbo-talk] Obama & the white guys

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 21 09:43:50 PST 2008


At 09:31 AM 2/21/2008, WS wrote:


>It is possible, for example,
>that blacks tend to minimize their pain when talking
>to doctors, while whites may tend to exaggerate it, so
>the doctors decions is influenced by these
>communications.

That sounds plausible. I think Daryl Gates might back you up on that.


>We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is
>applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.
>-- Daryl Gates, former L.A. police chief.



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