Question

Have you ever been to St. Louis, Missouri, and did you find racial tensions there particularly high, pre-"Ferguson".

Answer 1

answer:My dad was the project manager for something called FLAIR when he was a manager/engineer at Boeing. It stood for Fleet Location and Information Reporting. It was basically GPS before its time. This was in the 70’s. It was a device to track the location of police cars and police individuals.He spent a lot of time in St. Louis as it had the highest crime rate in the country. My sisters and I had to sit through so many dry runs of presentations he was preparing to make. I was in high school. He’d line us up in the living room and give us these speeches. I’d fall off the chair and ask really stupid questions…and he’d field everything with total aplomb and seriousness. I finally asked him why he was answering my dumb questions so seriously. He said, “Because you never know what kind of question may be asked, and you need to do your best to answer it.”