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Just Go Home

My friend Rich, a black guy who grew up in the Co-Op city housing project in the Bronx, often says that his goal every day is to stay away from danger so that he can make it home to his wife and children. Ignore the person who curses at you, or shoves you on the train, he says, since you never know if that person has a gun or a knife.

The Lower East Side murder of a 28 year old actress shows how right Rich is. Nicole DuFresne responded to a thug mugging her and her friend by asking, "What are you trying to do? What are you going to do, shoot us?" Unfortunately, he did and she was murdered.

On a lighter note, I know Rich from law school. Early in the first semester, we were assigned to work together on a legal writing project. However, Rich missed a few days, and I was left to tell the professor that we did not complete the project. (It turned out that Rich's wife had given birth to their first child.) The professor asked me what Rich looked like, and I responded that Rich is a tall, black guy. The professor then asked me whether it really was necessary to describe Rich in racial terms.
posted on 1/28/2005