[MarkWar]

>Bruce Ratner, the CEO of Forest City Ratner Enterprises who decided to replace two of the three white firefighters captured in a world famous photo of the flag raising with a more racially diverse duo,

Actualy, this stupid decision is so consistent with all the rest of the pop culture idiocy defining modern America that the only thing I _really_ wonder about is why didn't they make ONE of the fireman a Chinese woman...

Mark W.

[KC_Conspirator]

why didn't they make ONE of the fireman a Chinese woman...

I'm sure it was considered, but then someone could make a "Chinese fire drill" joke and then the statue would be considered rascist.

[wheezer]

And where is the "handi-capable" fireperson?

I smell a discrimination suit..;o)