>I would like to be counted as someone else who suspects that
>there is a racial element to the story. The description of
>feeling righteous while vandalizing someone's car made me
>very uncomfortable.

     Well put -  Although I suspect the narrator meant no "harm"...

>The subtext of the story seemed to me to be one of "getting
>even with a black person with a bad attitude". That, to me,
>is a racial issue.

>/ Lars Poulsen

     -Victor Virreira