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...third difficulty is that the reparations argument means asking somebody to accept responsibility and blame, and guilt is not a very powerful political policy," Appiah added...
...same. The Rodney King case led to an explosion of urban anger. The Diallo acquittal has stimulated nationwide protest, but the estimated 2,500 people who marched up and down Fifth Ave. last Saturday were largely peaceable, ordered, and multi-racial. In the King case, it was easy to blame the police officers; in the Diallo case the enemy is less clear...
...immediate reaction is to blame the jurors, who were selected from an 85-percent-white district in Albany rather than the mostly black and Hispanic neighborhood where the crime occurred. But the jury that tried the N.Y. case contained four blacks out of twelve jurors. Although the district attorney would certainly have prosecuted successfully in the Bronx, a conviction in Albany was not out of reach...
...demands that they be held accountable for their actions. Although the case is closed, the verdict provided no sense of closure. Nor have public figures been able to offer an adequate explanation. The Diallo case has left America with a question mark--if the police officers are not to blame, then...
When New York City's American Museum of Natural History announced a few years ago that it would be rebuilding its hallowed Hayden Planetarium from the ground up, lots of New Yorkers screamed to the heavens--and Neil de Grasse Tyson, the planetarium's recently appointed director, couldn't blame them. For more than 60 years, the Hayden had been bringing the stars to sky-deprived city dwellers, and its frumpy dome, slapped onto the museum's north side, had played host to generations of visitors. That included Tyson himself, whose career as an astrophysicist was first inspired by visits...