Posted on 07/23/2009 3:41:48 AM PDT by suspects
[‘I said, are you doing this because I’m a black man in America? Are you doing this because you’re a white police officer and I am a black man?” - Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounting a conversation with his arresting officer in Cambridge.] - italics
So what if the cop had been BLACK?
What if Sgt. James Crowley happened to be one of Cambridge’s 41 black police officers rather than bearing as he does the affliction of whiteness? If a black police sergeant responded to the call of a possible breaking and entering, and asked Gates for some form of identification, what would have happened then?
Gates would have been just as tired after his trip to China - an excuse his defenders use to explain his arrogance and rudeness.
And if having a cop show up at your door and ask about your identity is, as Gates claims, intrusive or insulting, it would have been just as intrusive from a black cop as a white one.
The context would have been identical as well: Nine daytime, front-door break-ins reported in the neighborhood in the first quarter of 2009; Gates’ own door damaged by a previous, possible break-in attempt, according to the police report.cw0
Imagine all the facts and all the circumstances identical, but a black police officer instead of a white one. What would have been different?
Everything.
The tired professor would have found the strength to hand over his ID without significant objection. The officer would have gone on his way. No angry shouts, no (alleged) “yo mama” comments, no screams so loud they attracted the neighbors, or embarrassing photos of a raging Skip Gates on the front of the Herald.
All changed, not because of a different cop, but a different Professor Gates.
The Gates who greeted Crowley was a racist. And I know, because...
President Obama takes the side of a black racist....I am simply shocked....not.
Hell, one could fill the taj mahal with books of things Obama doesn’t know. Among them:
how to start a business.
how to employee people in the private sector.
how to think.
how to create prosperity.
how to keep wolves from the door.
how to deal with dictators.
how to speak without a teleprompter.
I can’t help but think this whole story is a set-up to distract people from the Obama aministration’s government takeover of the medical industry.
The main character, Harvard Professor Gates, is a friend of the President of the United States. Even if the “arrest” wasn’t a steup, and I believe it was, does anybody not recognize the petty “community organizing” tactics?
Before it's over, I think it is unfortunately likely that the Obama presidency will do more to set back progress in race relations than any other event in the last two decades.
I have had a similar experience with my alarm system going off accidentally. Fortunately I was only a half mile from my house when they called me so I beat the police to the house. When they arrived I had to show them my I.D. You know, I don’t remember if the officer was white or black. The important thing to me was he was interested in protecting my house.
Once again Obama and his cronies show their utter hatred for white Americans.
That’s an interesting point. It probably wasn’t pre-arragned, but I betcha that Al Sharpton and the gang are already on their way to Cambridge to take advantage of it.
BTW, the police report says that the caller said there were two black men wearing back packs trying to break into the house. What happened to the second guy?
Is it possible that Gates was trying to create a distraction to protect his friend (who may have had a warrant on him or may have been carrying something like drugs or weapons in his backpack)?
Obama’s remarks that he didn’t have all the facts, and that the cop acted stupid, is getting some air time.
It was Obama who acted stupid with that combination of remarks. More and more he’s showing himself as a race obsessed bigot, entirely unfit for the job he has.
LLS
This was a set-up question taken by Obama after a previously set up question about whether or not we’re being too easy on Wall street. After accusing doctors of being greedy, Obama got rail on Wall Street for being greedy. Then the last setup question had to do with racism. President “I don’t know what happened but...” got to rail on bigotry. So we have the same old greedy bigots Democratic boogieman formula...first talk about greed, then talk about bigots. When you’re a dumb hammer everything looks like a nail.
And what a nice way to end a much-hyped press conference, by making America feel bad about itself. Morning in America? The Shining City on a Hill? NOT!
Obama doesn’t care, he is a black racist and has and will use the race and racist card at the drop of a hat. Forget about the facts it is all about race and the color of their skin! Just look at the mans life and record and his first Supreme Court selection Sotomyor!
Did anyone else see the Mayor of Cambridge interview? A very telling piece of tape! The reporter asked her if she felt race was involved. Her response was “Race is AKWAYS involved.”
I suspect we're going to see more and more examples of Obama supporters going off the deep end. Bless their hearts, they honestly bought into the BO myth, that somehow with his election problems would be solved and conditions would improve. That was never going to happen and as frustrated as many of them are to start with the realization that their man is just that, another man, they have no where else to turn.
The man with Gates was a taxi driver who dropped him off at his house.
“Obama’s remarks that he didn’t have all the facts, and that the cop acted stupid, is getting some air time.”
Didn’t have all the fact...hmmm Cheney must be hiding them from him...and since Cheney and Bush are attached at the hip according to the libs...IT’S BUSH’S FAULT
Waiting now for 88 Harvard perfessers to sign a letter saying how Cambridge cops are racist, then for the “community” to show up at the cop’s doors banging pots and pans, then the call for the cop to “apologize” followed almost immediately with calls for him to lose his job.
I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t go down this way.
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Gates heads the African American Studies dept at Harvard.
The dept demands a blank check and no accountability. When they are criticized for basically doing nothing (other than writing their own books and/or producing documentaries about the black struggle) they cry racism... and the libtard academia types run and hide.
This guy is no different than Rev Wright. He’s an angry little black liberation type.
Read what Chicago police officers have to say about the racist in chief and this:
Go to:
Second City Cop
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