How to break into a car with your white privilage, or driving while black in America.
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Good clip. I don't think the word cracker came up, so I guess that is reference to the T.M case. I am sure glad I am not on the jury because I think the legal structure is trying to force this case somewhere it might not quite go, but I doubt they had other legal alternatives. I think reckless endangerment only applies to driving.
This particular clip is part of a longer bit in which it was discussed (there's a brief mention in one of the roll by banners).
Holy Shit! Burton has a 33 y/o kid? He has such a babyface, I still think of him as 30-something from his SNG days.
Is the question to hand whether one's worse than the other? Isn't it that 'cracker' is also a pejorative, racially prejudiced term?
Ironically, the word is used way more in the Black Community, who seem to have a masochistic need to keep it alive.