I was thinking about racism and came to the conclusion it's existence is mostly hype. As a way of testing my theory I've come up with a little experiment. I would go to the third floor of a burning building, dress myself as a woman in various garb or skin colors and yell "Save my baby!" while throwing a doll out the window.

It's my contention more the 50% of any group walking by would not think twice about at least trying to catch it even though they can easily assume it's race and that might not be the same as thiers.

Is my 50% figure a conservative or liberal estimate? Would the results mean anything like what I think it would?

This may just be my own reaction, but if I were walking along the street and saw a man dressed like a woman toss a doll off a building yelling "save my baby" the first thing I'd do is call the cops.

Good point. It's all I got to work with though so I guess just forget I brought it up.

And you would do what, if you saw Michael Jackson throwing his baby?

If you dressed in a burka, it may work, Cy. But then you'd either have to find a burning building or set one on fire and wait for a crowd to gather. You'd also have to make sure the swaddling didn't fall off your 'baby' before it hit ground.

Finally, you'd have to rid yourself of a possibly smoldering burka and disappear yourself before an angry crowd attacked.

Wouldn't it be simpler to study emperical knowledge of what's gone on in saving anyone from a fire in the near past?

After extensive negotiations with his lawyers I'm sure we'd work out some kind of deal. Why is he planning to?

I assumed a hollywood makeup artist would be assumed to be involved in this and maybe some pyro-techinic specialists and maybe even a wrapped up doll that would look like a baby but maybe I haven't thought this through enough and there's no sense risking my life near fire to find out something this stupid. Thanks for the warning. I'll cancel the press conference.


Do they keep these kind of records? I guess I should go ask the opinion of a librarian before I ask stupid questions. There's always something new at the library.

Don't spend you money, dearheart--just "ask a librarian."