Talk:Dotbusters

Clean up and Corrections
The article stated that "Most of the gang members were of European heritage". This is wrong. The dotbuster gangmembers were consists of Latino heritage. I am not self-claiming this. The university text book "Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Rothenburg, Seventh Edition. " has more information about this racist gang. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.216.19.14 (talk) 22:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

A longer article already exists for this under Dot Buster, that's why I cleared this pageJmm6f488 03:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Does this really need the "orphan" tag anymore? I don't think so. DanTD 13:03, 2 August 2007 (UTC)


 * An article of this length just gives credence to what was the work of a very few people - hardly an epidemic of anti-Indian bias attacks, this was rather one or two people who played to the media. I encourage the authors and evaluators to reconsider this article as it is a distortion of history. Jersey City has been largely welcomeing of the Indian community; we should not allow one or two bigots to diminish that history.  John B, Jersey City Library, local history room.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.158.179.206 (talk) 19:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Navroze Mody
The information on Navroze Mody is false. It is based on an anonymous letter to the editor of the Jersey Journal newspaper by someone who claimed membership in an apocryphal "dot busters" white, racist gang and the subsequent, false New York Times story blaming this nonexistent gang for Mr. Mody's murder. From this initial seed, it has blossomed into a self-perpetuating cottage industry, entirely dependent upon that initial, false story.

I knew Navroze Mody. And I followed his murder trial both in person at the Hudson County courthouse and in the media. He was Parsi (Persian ancestors who, as Zoroastrians, fled to India 1,000 years ago to escape the Arab Muslim genocide in their nation.) He was surrounded on the street in Hoboken by a group of ten to twelve Puerto Rican-Americans. The four who were found guilty of the attack at trial had the surnames of Acevedo, Padilla, and the Gonzalez brothers. At the time, he was walking with a white co-worker from Citicorp in Manhattan, when they were both accosted.

Therefore, the victim was not ethnically what most people would consider "Indian". He was of Persian descent and therefore light skinned, like Iranians. And his murderers were not "white racists," they were Hispanic. Therefore, contrary to the false initial story and all subsequent repetitions of it, Mr. Mody's murder was not the result of an attack by white, racist "dot busters"; a dark Indian murdered by whites, but rather a light Parsi murdered by dark Puerto Ricans.

It is also false that they shouted at him "Dot-head", but rather, either "baldie" or "Kojak" according to the court testimony of witnesses. That was because Mr. Mody was bald from a condition known as alopecia. (Again, they had no way of knowing that his family had emigrated from India, because he did not look Indian.)

But when the Times ran with their slander (and never attempted to correct it), it inflamed passions in the region toward a race of people who had nothing to do with the crime, it attracted the initial interest of Tawana Brawley hoaxer C. Vernon Mason (until he learned the true identity of the attackers), and it created a race-based cottage industry that today still draws grant money by perpetuating the original lie that a white, racist gang murdered an Indian man on the streets of Hoboken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eagle in NYC (talk • contribs) 15:53, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * You forgot to provide any evidence for your story and are generally not very credible. --217.251.227.213 (talk) 18:35, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Pretty blatant violation of NPOV in this article. While I personally agree with the very condemnatory tone in the article (no tolerance for the intolerant), it's clearly lacking in objectivity when an attack can described as an "atroscity". Going to comb the article, replacing charged words with more factual, neutral ones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.158.1 (talk) 18:26, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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