First question, did his son get into Yale on his merits or through affirmative action and his dad being a columnist at the New York Times?
Second question. Is not Yale located in New Haven which has a large black ghetto and is crime ridden as all black ghettos are? By contrast, Harvard is in the middle of Cambridge, which has few blacks and little violent crime.
Third question. What’s the big deal with police holding a gun on a suspect burglar?
* Elephant in the room: was the policeman who drew the gun on him white or black? Very curiously, Blow doesn’t get into this question as best I can see, though it would obviously change the impact of the story dramatically. The policeman at one point is quoted as saying to Blow’s son after the situation became defused, “Hey, my man. Can you step off to the side?” Rather sounds like something a black policeman would say under those circumstances.
Why isn’t the dog barking, Mr. Blow?
LUKE: The officer who drew the gun was black. The Chief of Yale Police is black. The Yale police department is largely black.
