Me:
> but he could have waited a few minutes to express his anger and thus > could have fought racism, pushed for respect for himself and his > people, _and_ won victory and glory. > > in any event, do you think he "chose" anger? I'd guess that he simply > engaged in a knee-jerk response. Sometimes that's okay, but not > always.
Yoshie:
Jim, I don't think you really understand the kind of anger Zidane must have felt about being called "Dirty Terrorist." You have never experienced that, and you never will.
I know that. That's why his response was "okay." But it's hard to believe that it was a thought-out response, since so much was at stake (i.e., the World Cup). In any event, one person's angry response, no matter how noble, is absolutely nothing compared to a mass movement against racism and the like. Perhaps Zidane's response will help to evoke a mass movement or to encourage the already-existing one? -- Jim Devine / "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." -- Pat Robertson
