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One of the police officers in the attack on Rodney King is called Sergeant Stacey Koon. With a name like that, maybe you might have a problem about "race" too. According to Koon, when King was approached by a white female Highway Patrol officer with a gun, "He grabbed his butt with both hands and began to shake and gyrate his fanny in a sexually suggestive fashion. . . . As King sexually gyrated, a mixture of fear and offense overcame Melanie. The fear was of a Mandingo sexual encounter."
Most writers who specialize in writing about prosaic lower-middle-class suburbia do so to use it as shorthand for blandness and mediocrity