Response to "A message gone bad"

In your article, “A message gone bad,” you call yourselves multimedia experts. To the pretentious multimedia experts at The Arizona Republic: If I believed for a moment that you know what the “sender” really grasps, I would not be writing this opinion. The issue with Officer Schofield and the litter-bugs goes beyond that one dimension. Yes, the society in the continental United States may agree with you, but the society in Hawaii and other parts of the world would laugh at the incident. To them, this story would be much-to-do-about-nothing.

In Hawaii, the melting-pod of many races, one race (senders) jests with another race (recipients) about its idiosyncrasies. The “sender” in this story had no harmful intentions, and I am sure that he is very apologetic. (Hasn’t The Arizona Republic been apologetic over the years?) Some of the recipients’ race was incensed. The “recipients” need to lighten up. As Rodney King once asked, “Why can’t we all just get along?” It takes both sides to get along. The race of the “recipients” has been more vocal about the idiosyncrasies of the “sender”. But that’s not important. We take it in stride—so should the recipients.

Officer Schofield, making a point on his show, was and is entertaining. I have watched him for several years and enjoy his programs, which are beneficial to the Tempe police force.