BECOMING WHAT WE HATE
Columnist William Raspberry holds up Detective Mark Fuhrman as an example of someone who has turned into the very thing he hates: “You have to assume Fuhrman’s self-revealed race hatred must stem not so much from mere color as from the characteristics he has come to associate with that color: dishonesty, cheating, criminality. And what has Fuhrman become in the service of his hatred? By his own words, a dishonest, cheating, criminal cop.” Raspberry goes on to note how all of us tend to react to that which we hate. “How many such mild-mannered ones as ourselves have thought . . . how nice it would be to plant a hay maker (or a tire iron) upside the head of some violence prone troublemaker? . . . And if you do, what have you become? . . . Those of us who fear and detest Fuhrman and all he represents must struggle to avoid becoming like him.” From Detroit News,…
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