[Dinah Lord]

And I found it interesting to learn that his first wife was white...

"...And so when I brought my fiancee home, who happened to be a white American, I thought World War III was about to break out between me and my mother, not to mention between my mother and my fiancee.

LAMB: And is your wife white?

GATES: Yeah. She's white."

[driftdiver]

So Gates hates white people but marries a white woman.

Gotta be something freudian in there.

[TommyDale]

This is an interesting twist.

[constitutiongirl]

He looks like he has a fair amount of white in him also. Self-hater.

[Mr. Mojo]

Gates’ email: hgates@fas.harvard.edu

[Doogle]

like I said in another post....”a stray dog usually gets caught when he barks”

[JeepInMazar]

Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, the Black Church in America, and the threat of Islam.

This article explains black liberation theology and how it is compatible with the theology of Nation of Islam.

[RDTF]

Typical

[angkor]

>>>> the white man was the devil and standing up in white people’s faces and telling them off. It was great. <<<<

Racist.

[TommyDale]

These liberal “scholars” seem to overlook the fact that we have access to their past interviews.

[Mark was here]

What happened to the first white wife?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Henry Louis Gates, Jr

"..Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions, and currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research..."

Academic Race Pimp.

[plain talk]

Thanks for posting. I like Brian Lamb but he has a method of bouncing around with questions while interviewing that absolutely drives me crazy. Here is an example:

(the answer to question as to where did word ‘nigger’ come from)
“GATES: No, linguists have. They can trace it to the 17th century. And it’s, again, a debasement of negro or a debasement of Niger, N-I-G-E-R, like the Niger River, or nigars, N-I-G-A-R-S, the word which was used to describe the first 20 or so slaves who came to Jamestown in 1619.

LAMB: How many daughters do you have? “

How could one possibly go from asking a heavy question like that without a followup question and then swerving 180 degrees to asking about how many daughters does he have? Bizarre. He asks good questions but asks them randomly and appears to not even be listening to the answers.

[Atom Smasher]

I can see why he’s friends with Zero...they have the same racist ideology! They are both involved with whites, (via family or spouse), and yet they both scream racism at the white man.

[PghBaldy]

Funny how FR was gone shortly after this was posted...

[Lurking in Kansas]

By his own account, Gates was a "mama's boy." He was fascinated with the complexity of the woman who was enraptured with the radical anti-white oratory of Malcolm X but at the same time wanted her sons to live and excel in an integrated world. In 1962, at the age of 46, Pauline Gates went through a severe menopause that threw off her hormonal balance. In Gates's words, "she became another person." She was diagnosed with clinical depression and hospitalized. Gates recounts in a Booknotes interview with Brian Lamb:

Before they took her off she hugged me and she said, 'Look, I'm going to die, and I want you to love your father and be good,' you know, all that stuff. And I cried, of course, hysterically. Then I went upstairs and I prayed that God would bring my mama back, and if he did, I would give my life to Christ."

[clintonh8r]

Hell, Halle Berry hates white people even though she was abandoned by her black father and raised by her white mother. There's a lot more black on white hate in this country than the opposite....but nobody wants to mention that.

[Gay State Conservative]

And this clown has the gaul to insult the *cop’s* mother.If I was the cop “having a beer” with this racist at the White House I’d spit it in his face and mutter “yo mama” after having done so.

[Hammer Tym]

Gee, isn’t that nice

[Ray'sBeth]

Thank you for posting this link. I found the interview fascinating, especially in light of his more recent work. I have kept very quiet about Professor Gates and haven’t posted yet about him, but want to say a couple of things.

In the last few years I have followed his African American Lives series one and two with great interest, especially since genealogy is my passion. I learned quite a bit about him in the programs, and saw how absolutely astonished he himself was to find some of the family stories he grew up with were unfounded. He also discovered he was 50% white and 50% black—and was especially surprised to find he had maternal white blood.

I honestly believe that this whole incident has taken on a life of its own. He was jet lagged. He was tired. He probably wasn’t thinking too clearly, and he probably popped his mouth off. My disappointment, if this is what happened, is that he has continued to call the policeman racist, and this spread to his daughter. That’s where I’ve really lost respect for him.

I will await further developments, though, and not call him names. I do hope that the audio of whatever the police have is released, and I hope that some good will come from all of this.

I do look at him differently now than last week, but hope that we will have more clarity on what happened in the future.

As to our President...I am really disappointed in him.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

No...this guy doesn’t have issues with whites, not at all... ;-/