I wonder how differently this may have gone had the police officer been black.
There is where the actual racism is in this story.
I suspect Gates just couldn’t contain his hate for the white man when being questioned. This would not have happened if one of his own had questioned him.
“This would not have happened if one of his own had questioned him.”
No most likely if it had been a black officer responding and asking the questions... he would have called him and “uncle tom”
You hear Rush’s take on this yesterday? It sounded quite plausible. Gates *wanted* to be arrested so he could get publicity for his cause.
Actually, blacks being arrested or questioned are equally disrespectful to black police officers, too. It’s all part of a weird sense of privilege or specialness that somehow has been instilled in this self-defined “militant black” group, making them feel that ordinary law and ordinary procedures don’t apply to them.
Being aggressive or hostile to the police and even to the law itself is somehow “sticking it to the man.” I think this attitude is one that is a serious problem among young blacks and has really held back their progress in joining the larger society.