From Jack Finnell:

 It was a discussion Mr. Kushner launched about stereotyping.  I remember his saying he was from Newark and that not all blacks were perfectly shaped athletes, for example.  Since the only time we saw blacks was at CHS basketball games, this would have been a reasonable assumption on our parts.  Au contraire, Mr. Kushner said, there were plenty of pear-shaped blacks, many of them interested solely in intellectual pursuits, caring nothing about athletics.  Pear-shaped black guys from Newark.  That always stuck with me.

Actually, I appreciated his saying it; because it really did make me think about the unwisdom of stereotyping generally.