It had nothing to do with race -- it had to do with the arrogance of both involved. Both think they're God's gift to mankind. A little humility is in order, for both of them.
The cop actually said:... "We both have agreed to disagree" WOW !!! This is what the cop came away with!!!! When it would have been so easy to just have said,... "Listen, we were both at fault here. This misunderstanding could have been resolved with a little more common sense, respect towards one another, patience and calmness. We are both thankful for this opportunity to learn from one another, grow a bit intellectually and both become a little better as human beings. Thank you. But now,... Nothing has been learned, and so,... We continue in ignorance and repeat.
A Princeton PhD, was a U.S. diplomat for over 20 years, mostly in Central/Eastern Europe, and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1997. After leaving the State Department in 2003 to express strong reservations about the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq, he shared ideas with Georgetown University students on the tension between propaganda and public diplomacy. He has given talks on "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United" to participants in the "Open World" program. Among Brown’s many articles is his latest piece, “Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War,” now online. He is the compiler (with S. Grant) of The Russian Empire and the USSR: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States (also online). In the past century, he served as an editor/translator of a joint U.S.-Soviet publication of archival materials, The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations,1765-1815. His approach to "scholarly" aspirations is poetically summarized by Goethe: "Gray, my friend, is every theory, but green is the tree of life."
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The cop actually said:...
"We both have agreed to disagree"
WOW !!!
This is what the cop came away with!!!!
When it would have been so easy to just have said,...
"Listen, we were both at fault here. This misunderstanding could have been resolved with a little more common sense, respect towards one another, patience and calmness.
We are both thankful for this opportunity to learn from one another, grow a bit intellectually and both become a little better as human beings.
Thank you.
But now,...
Nothing has been learned, and so,...
We continue in ignorance and repeat.
I see no arrogance on the part of the cop. It's the professor and President Obama who show arrogance.
~Lorna
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