Fuzzy Dice?

In this article Matt Helms discussed the ban of objects hanging from your rear view mirror. He talks about how the ban might soon be eased up on, by letting some items like pray beads or air fresheners be allowed on the mirrors. In the article Sen. Ron Jelinek goes on to say that that this kind of law or band is just “a 'gotcha' law. It's an excuse to pull someone over”. I agree with this statement that keeping this law as it is, is simple used for an excuse for the police to pull someone over if they are suspicious and have no other, real reason.

             I agree with this ban that drivers should not be allowed to have objects on their rear view mirror that could possible obstruct or distract their view while driving like fuzzy dice, but I do not think it is an issue to have small items that are not causing any problems to the drivers.

Mitch Albom Column

Mitch Albom’s point in this column is to show you and convince you, that if someone gives another the opportunity to pull the racial card, when being criticized, of course they will do it. Even if they were going to say on their own “it’s because of my race” and they had not  done it yet, by asking that question one would just be fueling the fire and asking for them to respond with a “yes, of a matter of fact, it is because of my race and it is not right”. I agree with Mitch Albom’s point that people put way to much emphases on the racial factor when something negative is being said, but when something positive comes alone it has nothing to do with race and the question “Do you think there's a role that race plays in this?" would have never been asked, which I think is Mitch’s strongest point. Mitch continued with this idea by asking rhetorical question like do you think this question was asked when he was the number one draft out of high school or when he became MVP, or when he was given more money than a 100 other NBA players combined and the answer to all of the questions is no. no one publicly said anything about race when these great achievements were made. So the obvious way to solve this whole conflict would be to just not ask the question about race playing a role in any decision.