Posted on 07/23/2009 4:40:43 AM PDT by bocopar
This is not another "just words" moment.
During a primetime press conference on the whole black-Harvard-scholar-being-racially-profiled-and-arrested-in-his-Cambridge-Massachusetts-home thing, President Obama said,
"Well, I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts."This is where the president should have stopped and minded his own business, but the all-about-me man just couldn't contain himself...
Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact.President Obama admits he didn't know much about the case, and yet slams a police department on national television. Is this stupid or what?
(Excerpt) Read more at black-and-right.com ...
Just a heads up: will be appearing tonight on The O’Reilly Factor (8pm EST) to discuss President “stupidly” Obama’s comment on the Professor Gates/Cambridge Police Department controversy.
BTW — I was also contacted by a very nice producer at CNN to speak with Rick Sanchez on his show. Since most of you know how I feel about about that asshole, I turned them down.
zactly my point....
Amen to that!
You did a great job on O’Reilly.
Nice job tonight on the Factor!
Nice job last night.
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