The Bonfire of the Vanities
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:50:04
Sources at Motor Vehicles say...
:50:07
...less than 200 Mercedes have plates
beginning with "RE, " "RB, " or "RP. "

:50:14
How did they get this information
out of Motor Vehicles?

:50:18
Calm down. We've had this information
for over a week.

:50:21
Why aren't we doing anything about it?
Why aren't we tracing the car?

:50:25
Actually, I suggested we--
:50:27
What am l? The Wizard of Oz?
:50:30
Trace the car? Trace the car?
We don't even have a witness.

:50:34
We don't know where it happened,
or even if it happened.

:50:38
Trace the car.
:50:39
We don't have a case,
even if we find the car.

:50:43
If we found the driver,
and the driver came to us and said:

:50:46
"Yeah, that's right.
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"I hit this kid the other night,
and I didn't stop.

:50:53
"I didn't report it. I'm the guy. I did it."
Then we got a case.

:50:58
Just trace the fucking car.
:51:07
Yesterday, I was
a respected Jewish liberal.

:51:11
Ten minutes of news like this,
and now I'm a hymie racist pig?

:51:17
The ltalians are going to love this.
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The lrish, too.
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And the WASPs.
:51:24
They love this shit more than anybody.
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They love laughing at me.
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All the rich sons of bitches.
:51:32
They still think they own this town.
:51:34
They sit in their co-ops, Park Avenue, Fifth,
Beekman Place, snug like a bug.

:51:39
Twelve-foot ceilings, a wing for them,
one for the help.

:51:42
They think money'll protect them.
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You stupid sons of bitches!
:51:50
I'd like to light a fire under their
white asses. Let them see how it feels.

:51:55
Let the Third World see the smoke
and come after them!

:51:58
Let them feel what it's like when every
Puerto Rican, West lndian, Cuban, Korean...


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