57 Comments

1. Enigma  •  Jul 30, 2009 @11:52 am
   

   I enjoyed your musings. Don’t you know only white people can be racist? All other races are allowed selective clubs, to be clannish and exclude others, however, if one is of the caucasian persuasion and does such a thing (hiring only their own kind) this individual is deemed a white supremacist. It is disgusting! Bill O’Reilly stated that he knew Gates when he was at Harvard and the guy has a chip on his shoulder. This professor would have issue if you looked at him the wrong way. Whites are tired of hearing about the slave issue and what occurred so long ago. Many races have been persecuted and they do not wallow in it consistently!

2. Enigma  •  Jul 30, 2009 @12:02 pm
   

   http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/30/cop-apologizes-for-jungle-monkey-e-mail/

   This was definitely taken out of context. The police officer did not mean anything derogatory by the circulation of the email. The police officer was not disparaging the professor.

   CNN) — A Boston police officer who sent a mass e-mail — in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a “banana-eating jungle monkey” — has apologized, saying he’s not a racist.

   Officer Justin Barrett told a local television station on Wednesday night that he was sorry for the e-mail.

   “I regret that I used such words,” Barrett told CNN affiliate WCVB. “I have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name. I am not a racist.”

   He was placed on administrative leave after the e-mail surfaced, and he might lost his job as a result.

   Barrett, 36, who is also an active member of the National Guard, sent off a fiery e-mail to some fellow Guard members — as well as the Boston Globe — in which he vented about a July 22 Globe column about Gates’ controversial arrest.

   Gates, a top African-American scholar, was arrested on July 16 and accused of disorderly conduct after police responded to a report of a possible burglary at his home. The charge was later dropped. The incident sparked a debate about racial profiling and police procedures.

   Columnist Yvonne Abraham supported Gates’ actions, asking readers, “Would you stand for this kind of treatment, in your own home, by a police officer who by now clearly has no right to be there?”

   In Barrett’s e-mail, which was posted on a Boston television station’s Web site, he declared that if he had “been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC (oleorosin capsicum, or pepper spray) deserving of his belligerent non-compliance.”

   Barrett used the “jungle monkey” phrase four times, three times referring to Gates and once referring to Abraham’s writing as “jungle monkey gibberish.”

   He also declared that he was “not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers.”

   Barrett’s comments were taken out of context, said his lawyer, Peter Marano.

   “Officer Barrett did not call professor Gates a jungle monkey or malign him racially,” Marano said. “He said his behavior was like that of one. It was a characterization of the actions of that man.””

   According to a statement from Boston police, Commissioner Edward Davis took action immediately on learning of Barrett’s remarks, stripping the officer of his gun and his badge.

   Barrett is now “on administrative leave, pending the outcome of a termination hearing.”

   CNN has been unable to reach Barrett for comment.

   Davis wants Barrett, a two-year member of the Boston police force, fired, a source close to the investigation said. But he will continue to be paid while on leave, and no date has been set for his termination hearing.

3. Enigma  •  Jul 30, 2009 @5:11 pm
   

   http://news.ronatvan.com/2009/07/04/sensitivity-training-only-white-people-can-be-racist/

   Good one…anti-white racism, double standard, manipulation, multiculturalism

4. Eric  •  Jul 31, 2009 @5:26 pm
   

   “And if we walk away now -from a discussion on race-, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.”

   “That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician’s own failings.”

   “But I have asserted a firm conviction — a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people — that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.”

   Obama’s acceptance speech on how to go past the violent victimization speeches of Reverend Wright and mend our racial divide…that is why he piped in the way he did, using a Jackson-Sharpton-Wright like speech and analogies…way to go Prez!

5. Eric  •  Jul 31, 2009 @5:29 pm
   

   And the “Beer summit” to mend slipping polls for his mishandling of the White cop vs Black professor situation. Suddenly, Americans discovered that despite his having made a point on making a race blind campaign, Obama is actually really thin skinned too. He was elected by a majority of race blind WHITE people who suddenly discovered that race matters indeed and that our President is very black indeed, a stereotype of the race-card victimized black! Associated Press: “A new poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 41 percent disapprove of Obama’s handling of the Gates arrest, compared with 29 percent who approved.” He said “”I am, I have to say, fascinated by the fascination about this evening,”” but should realize that HE himself is to blame for making it an event by piping in and sounding like a Reverend Wright or any other Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.

6. Eric  •  Jul 31, 2009 @7:14 pm
   

   Good thing about it all is that Professor Gastes-Wright has allowed mostly race-blind Americans -too busy working to pay attention to self inflicted misery- to discover that our President sort of really believes the sermons he has heard for 20 years -no kidding- and that not too far under the surface, the black young community organizer and lawyer hired to milk the sytem for “raceial causes” is still a cry-baby despite obvious Ivy League education, confortable uprising and political successes. Gates-Sharpton also drew my attention to this WEB Du Bois institue of Harvard, the place he is the director of. Read the biography of that guy! Communist he was and communist he died. This guy did not see America as an evolving land for opportunities -despite his success and books, etc…- but as the most evil land on earth. He stood against integration of the blacks in the White society, preached separatism, disagreed with other black leaders, stood for Communist Russia and in 61, eventually left and move to Ghana he became a citizen of. Like Obama recently, and Gates, or Sotomayor, and all the successful rich ivy league minorities he never lived the hard lives of the former slave or segregated African Americans of the past they pretend to be. He graduated from Harvard in 1861 writting about slavery and poor black people…like Obama ?
   Why are these guys, the rich and the famous blacks, so sensitive aboout whatt they are…are they ashamed of not being slaves anymore? are they ashamed of having succeesded? do they feel affirmative action -legalized racism- made them what they are? do they think that despite their hard work, the rest of the world look at them like lazy rabid loud bums who made their way the race card in hands?
   Show me a White who owns slaves or a Black that have been a slave in my lifetime. Same opportunities out there, for US born citizens -all races- or immigrants. Some just don’t make it, even with legal help…
   Is it racism to say? Your call! Do you think that the white trash and other red necks fare better? Or the new slaves of our time: the hispanic farm workers? or the polish miners? Get up, move your fat sensitive butt and go find a job…and move up!

7. Eric  •  Jul 31, 2009 @7:20 pm
   

   Why do we still have people like Wright, Sharpton, Jackson, Gates, even Obama? because they keep on perpetuating the words of their heroes:

   “During the 1920s, Du Bois engaged in a bitter feud with Marcus Garvey. They disagreed over whether African Americans could be assimilated as equals into American society (the view held by Du Bois). Their dispute descended to personal attacks, sometimes based on ancestry. Du Bois wrote, “Garvey is, without doubt, the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race in America and in the world. He is either a lunatic or a traitor.”[18] Garvey described Du Bois as “purely and simply a white man’s nigger” and “a little Dutch, a little French, a little Negro … a mulatto … a monstrosity.”[19″

   Evolution?

8. Eric  •  Jul 31, 2009 @7:38 pm
   

   Du Bois…worth an institute in Harvard…

   He described the Imperial Japanese victory over Russia as “colored pride”…hos simple is the world for pampered anti-white racist!
   1936, invited by “imperial Japan” to visit Japan and Chinese territories occupied by the Imperial forces of Japan.. He stated that the Japanese/Chinese feud was caused by “China’s “submission to white aggression and Japan’s resistance.” He even told Chinese people to welcome Japanese soldiers as liberators…I guess he did not go to Nanking, right? He also supported the later invasion of Mandchuria.
   About Stalin, he wrote: “Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also - and this was the highest proof of his greatness - he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.”
   About the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary, he stated that the Hungarian revolution was led by Landlords and fascists.
   In 1958 Du Bois was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Communist Prague His honorary dissertation was entitled The Negro and Communism
   In 1959 the USSR awarded him the International Lenin Peace Prize.
   “Mostly Wikipedia, and other online bio”

   He should have moved to Japan or Russia.

9. Marcelo B.  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:30 am
   

   Enigma and Eric. You all are so biased against people of color that you cannot see right from wrong. The man was in his house when he was arrested. Isn’t a man supposed to be secure in his property and person? Perhaps you should read the fourth Amendment or take a class.

   Marcelo
   Broward County, FL

10. Steve Rogers  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:31 am
    

    Maybe if you all were black, you would understand how it feels to be criminally profiled. But you d not know; yet you speak and write bullshit.

    Steve Rogers

11. Eleanor Ross  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:34 am
    

    The president’s decision to weigh in on the arrest of his Harvard law professor friend Henry Louis Gates Jr., who stupidly mouthed off to a Cambridge cop threw a grenade into his health care PR offensive and revived questions about his promises of a post-racial presidency. He tried to defuse matters with a “beer Summit”, but like his predecessor, he found it impossible to say “I am sorry” or “I was wrong.”

    Eleanor Ross
    Pensacola

12. Mike Sanchez  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:35 am
    

    Folks (Enigma/Eric)…mouthing off to a cop is not a crime…or is it?

    Michael Sanchez

13. Ingrid Farrell  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:37 am
    

    Eric, Barack Obama got to be president because he had qualities Americans were yearning for after the bitter tumult of the Bush years. He was calm, sober, fair-minded, and guided by facts rather than emotions. He didn’t jump to conclusions, he didn’t ignore inconvenient evidence and he didn’t blunder into messes. That was the guy we elected last year, and right now, a lot of people miss him.

    Ingrid Farrell

14. David Thomson  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:40 am
    

    Middle-of-the-road and conservative whites now realize that Barack Obama has unresolved issues with them. He is out to stick it to them good and hard. Obama is merely a Harvard educated Al Sharpton. I have always realized that he is a race hustler. Others now have come to the same conclusion. The odds are that Obama will never again see his poll numbers go over 50%. He will remain a marginalized figure until he leaves the White House.

    President Obama is an intellectually lazy man. This latest incident reveals Obama to be an individual who is indifferent about studying facts before shooting his mouth off. This is also probably not the exception—but the normal way of how he approaches the issues of the day. Obama is shallow and poorly read. He probably couldn’t read a serious book if his life depended on it. The intellectual tools simply do not exist. A Harvard University soft science credential can be something of a joke. It is often not worthy of respect. Obama likely guilt tripped his professors to eventually get his degree. He is, however, not mentally challenged. We can take it for granted that Obama possesses a high I.Q. He just doesn’t want to put in the effort. Guilt tripped white liberals never pushed him to so in the past. Why start now?

    David Thomson

15. TC  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:42 am
    

    Obama pulled the pin on this one and then dropped it in his own lap. He alone stands damaged, and the country survived the immediate effects. It was illuminating to see into the dark, small character that is Obama.

    TC

16. Terry Cornley  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:44 am
    

    Eric my good man, nothing should be surprising about any of this. This was all on display during the presidential campaign, yet nearly every day I still find myself exclaiming “My gawd, this Obama is such a small and petty man!”.

    What is surprising and upsetting to me is the collective judgment of the American people. The combination of apathy, complacency, delusion, and willful ignorance that came together and enable this small and unqualified individual to become president has shaken my faith in the American people to it’s core.

    America went stupid in November, 2008. The question now is, “Are we able to right this ship, or is it going down?”.

    Terry Cornley
    Savannah, Georgia

17. Mike Murray  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:46 am
    

    The sad truth about all of this is that Obama’s initial criticism of Cambridge police officers was not, as he would now have us believe, an inadvertent insult. It was not simply a “poor choice of words” — a mere failure to properly “calibrate” his comments.

    It was deliberate, a calculation. And it was a darn poor one. This self-proclaimed “post-racial” president is so far anything but. Too often, he retreats in the politics of color. In trouble over his ambitious agenda (and with some of his black constituents), he seeks to distract — by tapping into cultural/racial sensitivities.

    Obama and his cohorts think themselves “the best and the brightest.” BuI say, when they act this way, it’s more a case of “stupid is as stupid does.” http://emmeffemm.com/id103.html

    Moreover, if and when Obama wants to have a serious discussion about race, many Americans are ready to talk. But we insist on an HONEST conversation.

    See: Racial Discourse http://emmeffemm.com/id121.html

    Mike Murray

18. Dan Dixon  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:48 am
    

    Finally. I love the President, but apparently he’s human. Let’s hope this is the last stupid thing he says in a long time; it would be a refreshing break from his predecessor in that office.

    Dan Dixon
    Georgia

19. Mary  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:49 am
    

    Oy, enough already. I don’t see people getting so worked up about how many men treat women and it’s a much bigger problem.

    Mary
    County Cork, Ireland

20. Tom Neusome  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:50 am
    

    Good for him. When did you ever see that kindergarten cowboy Bush step back and act like a man over something said or done, like, say, the multi-trillion-dollar hunt for weapons of mass destruction that in fact was a preconceived lie to the American people? Gee whiz, that would have been nice. I give credit to Obama. The right-wing noise machine in its full marginalized negative glory might end up losing that much more of its desperate fuel.

    Tom Neusome
    Boston

21. michael  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:51 am
    

    Eric and Enigma, I’d like the police reaction to at least explain how arresting a man for merely being ornery toward an intruding officer in his own house is “by the book.”

    Michael

22. Jason Wolffe  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:52 am
    

    President Obama is a young man starting the toughest job on the planet. Let’s cut slack for every one involved. It is very refreshing to know that our President is human, but best to see him recognize error, and step up to the plate without spinning.

    Jason Wolffe

23. Sohail  •  Aug 2, 2009 @7:59 am
    

    I consider the President’s comments rare for a politician but candid and truthful since so many minorities in this country face every day the racial animosity of mostly majority community police forces under the veil of correct procedure.

    Sohail
    Singapore

24. TJ  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:00 am
    

    I agree that it “is the job of the president ‘black or white’ to contribute to improving relations.”

    Perhaps the best way to do that job is to not make reckless comments about a racially charged incident during a critically important nationally televised news conference.

    Obama gets a pass because he’s personal friends with Gates, but this is clearly not an example of racial profiling. Obama’s comments created the media frenzy he is decrying.

    Tony Jackson

25. David Russell  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:03 am
    

    Yes perhaps the President should have been more measured, however, he reacted as a human being and for that he demonstrated a “real” side to himself.

    Let us not allow the “pundits” like Eric to re-focus our attention away from either the race issue in this country or the fact that this President is trying to bring the United States into the 21st century regarding health care and climate change. It is the media that should be helping to focus the country on these key initiatives together with the President.

    David Russell
    San Francisco

26. Robert Williams  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:05 am
    

    You people are acting like being black in America is not a problem. It is a common problem for blacks to be profiled by the racists white people in this country, not just cops. I will bet if I walked into your community, Eric, You will surely call the cops on me.

    Robert Williams
    Bronx, NY

27. Ellen  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:06 am
    

    We need to move past this quickly and let Obama refocus his full attention on the most important issue of our time - health care reform.

    Ellen
    Omaha

28. San Diegan  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:06 am
    

    That’s what I love about this President — frank, open, engaging, and real..

    San Diegan

29. BLM  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:07 am
    

    There is no way that arresting a person while gaining access to his residence can be viewed as a positive outcome for the police department. I have long understood that Gates has an easy-to-ignite demeanor. If I knew that then so should have the Cambridge Police Department. Police officers should be prepared to deal with such personalities. Short of outright assault, Gates should have been allowed to remain in his home. All in all, I think the President’s description pretty much nailed it. Gates, too, gets no laurels for his behavior.

    BLM

30. Ernest Austin  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:08 am
    

    No one ever said, that telling the Truth was Popular. However, is it still the Truth.

    Ernest Austin

31. Baruch  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:09 am
    

    I actually don’t have a problem with Obama’s comments. I think the arrest was stupid. I’ve read a lot about it, no I wasn’t there, but police should be trained in de-escalation. There was no threat of violence, no crime was being committed, just one pissed off guy a a cop who didn’t know how to keep his own cool until Gates relaxed. Was it racially motivated? Probably on an unconscious level, sure.

    Baruch

32. Dale Spain  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:12 am
    

    Why did the police report mention “black” when the person making the call did not mention color? Would any of you like to respond? Can this be the usual work of the police; setting up black folks?

    Dale Spain
    Miami

33. Yehudi  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:13 am
    

    Way to man-up Mr. President. It was stupid to call that cop stupid in public. The cop was wrong and unprofessional for sure, but you didn’t need to throw in your self-admitedly underinformed two cents. Now, moving on . . .

    Yehudi

34. ML  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:14 am
    

    Wow…he can use the word “apology” to every country on Earth for the actions of the United States, but he can’t use the word when he insults a police officer who was just doing his job.

    Rahm must have hit the roof when he saw today’s poll numbers. And thus it goes…

    And this is the man in charge. Good luck to all of us.

    ML

35. Maddie  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:17 am
    

    Eric, I don’t recall the prior president ever saying he was wrong about anything or having regrets about anything (including getting us into the wrong war.) So make a mountain out of a molehill, if you will, conservatives. Our current president is more humble and more human; if he makes a mistake or feels that he has, he will admit it. How rare!

    Maddie

36. Moses Owosu  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:18 am
    

    This correction from the President is a good one, but the debate should continue until some fundamental changes are effected to protect minorities from police brutalities. How many white Amadu Diallos have we had in this country in recent times? May be none in several decades. This tells that something is wrong somewhere. Minorities have become too much of a punching bag for far too long.

    Moses Owosu
    San Francisco

37. Rachel  •  Aug 2, 2009 @8:19 am
    

    I do not believe what he said was wrong or inappropriate. That was the first time any President ever stood up for the little guy who has to face this kind of open racial profiling every day, when you enter an elevator and the woman beside you clutches her purse, when you enter a high end store and no one will help you, when you go for a job interview and the position is myeteriously filled, when you want to rent an apartment or by a house, and when you’re simply inside your home in a nice Cambridge neighbourhood and assumed to be a criminal, despite a passport to prove otherwise.

    Thank you Obama for your candour and I hope we see more of this! You did not have to “calibrate” anything. The Cambridge Police sure didn’t!

    Rachel

38. Enigma  •  Aug 2, 2009 @2:25 pm
    

    • Marcelo B. • Aug 2, 2009 @7:30 am

    Enigma and Eric. You all are so biased against people of color that you cannot see right from wrong. The man was in his house when he was arrested. Isn’t a man supposed to be secure in his property and person? Perhaps you should read the fourth Amendment or take a class.
    Marcelo
    Broward County, FL
    How exactly are we biased against black people? I have no issue with black people. On my earlier posts I revered Michael Jackson a wonderful human being and humanitarian. The professor man was not in his house, he was trying to get in the house. Anyone that mouths off to police officers is liable to be taken to jail. Law officers are granted power to arrest and enforce the law. There was obviously noise involved, a disruption. The good neighbor was looking out for him, so that his dwelling would not be vandalized. The passerby/good Samaritan and police perhaps view as no good deed goes unpunished. Why persecution complex? Perhaps a locksmith could have been called and this situation avoided.
    • michael • Aug 2, 2009 @7:51 am

    Eric and Enigma, I’d like the police reaction to at least explain how arresting a man for merely being ornery toward an intruding officer in his own house is “by the book.”
    Michael
    Why did he not show his passport as he had just returned from China or his license? Instead, he showed his Harvard identification to throw his weight around, a class war. Don’t you know who I am attitude. The officer had probable cause to investigate whether or not he belonged there, whether or not someone else was directing his actions under duress. Massachusetts has a disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace cause. The professor came out on porch, drew a huge crowd and was guilty of instigating problems. For all we know the professor drummed up to create an outrage, garner publicity for himself and other hidden agenda items.

39. Enigma  •  Aug 2, 2009 @2:27 pm
    

    Steve Rogers • Aug 2, 2009 @7:31 am

    Maybe if you all were black, you would understand how it feels to be criminally profiled. But you d not know; yet you speak and write bullshit.

    Steve Rogers

    You sound racist with the you all bit.

40. Marcelo B.  •  Aug 2, 2009 @11:22 pm
    

    Enigma written “How exactly are we biased against black people? I have no issue with black people. On my earlier posts I revered Michael Jackson a wonderful human being and humanitarian. The professor man was not in his house, he was trying to get in the house. Anyone that mouths off to police officers is liable to be taken to jail. Law officers are granted power to arrest and enforce the law. There was obviously noise involved, a disruption. The good neighbor was looking out for him, so that his dwelling would not be vandalized. The passerby/good Samaritan and police perhaps view as no good deed goes unpunished. Why persecution complex? Perhaps a locksmith could have been called and this situation avoided.”

    I can tell you are a white anglo saxon male who does not understand blacks or people of color. First, if you revere Michael Jackson, if you were black you would know that MJ was black on the outs and white inside. Only white people revere MJ and that is why you do so. Secondly, the professor was in his house, not on the outside like the white people are saying. Get you facts right. Lastly, you said that mouthng off to a cop can get you arrested…..again, Enigma, is mouthng off to a cop grounds to getting arrested? Let me throw out another amendment for you. It is call the First Amendment. Read it and weep. Isn’t funny how white people can manipulate the constitution when it benefits them?

    Marcelo B.
    Florida

41. Michael  •  Aug 2, 2009 @11:29 pm
    

    You have missed the point, Enigma. Throwing one’s weight around is not a reason to be arrested. Once the man was in his house, and showed the officer that he was in his house, the officer should have used common sense and leave because he kneew the man was the owner. But as all white people usually feel about minorities, the black man should be kept in his place and not speak back to the nice white cop. How dare they even challenge the white cop? You all need to read the writing on the wall; the white man’s time has come. Just wait until we turn things around then tell me how you feel.

    Michael

42. Enigma  •  Aug 3, 2009 @12:26 pm
    

    • Michael • Aug 2, 2009 @11:29 pm

    You have missed the point, Enigma. Throwing one’s weight around is not a reason to be arrested. Once the man was in his house, and showed the officer that he was in his house, the officer should have used common sense and leave because he kneew the man was the owner. But as all white people usually feel about minorities, the black man should be kept in his place and not speak back to the nice white cop. How dare they even challenge the white cop? You all need to read the writing on the wall; the white man’s time has come. Just wait until we turn things around then tell me how you feel.
    Michael
    I certainly have not missed the point. Disrespecting a law officer certainly is grounds for an arrest. We do not need to heed or read the writing on the wall. There is a backlash brewing concerning anti-white racism so do not be so sure that white people will just roll over. You underestimate the masses.

43. Enigma  •  Aug 3, 2009 @12:36 pm
    

    • Marcelo B. • Aug 2, 2009 @11:22 pm

    Enigma written “How exactly are we biased against black people? I have no issue with black people. On my earlier posts I revered Michael Jackson a wonderful human being and humanitarian. The professor man was not in his house, he was trying to get in the house. Anyone that mouths off to police officers is liable to be taken to jail. Law officers are granted power to arrest and enforce the law. There was obviously noise involved, a disruption. The good neighbor was looking out for him, so that his dwelling would not be vandalized. The passerby/good Samaritan and police perhaps view as no good deed goes unpunished. Why persecution complex? Perhaps a locksmith could have been called and this situation avoided.”
    I can tell you are a white anglo saxon male who does not understand blacks or people of color. First, if you revere Michael Jackson, if you were black you would know that MJ was black on the outs and white inside. Only white people revere MJ and that is why you do so. Secondly, the professor was in his house, not on the outside like the white people are saying. Get you facts right. Lastly, you said that mouthng off to a cop can get you arrested…..again, Enigma, is mouthng off to a cop grounds to getting arrested? Let me throw out another amendment for you. It is call the First Amendment. Read it and weep. Isn’t funny how white people can manipulate the constitution when it benefits them?
    Marcelo B.
    Florida
    Where is it mandated that I have to understand people of color? You don’t appear to understand white people. You are incorrect in that EVERYONE on the planet revered Michael Jackson and his contributions. Yes, mouthing off to the cop is grounds for getting arrested. Legislation provides the police with power to maintain order and enforce laws. Period. A black cop could do so if the professor had mouthed off to him if he were there and this uppity professor/scholar gave him a tongue lashing. This scenario probably would not have the same sensationalism. Although the professor may have attempted to be dismissive and demean the law officer. I am familiar with the First Amendment and abusing a police officer is not covered under same. The professor incited a problematic situation. People of color can indulge in play of words for their benefit as well. It goes both ways.

44. Enigma  •  Aug 3, 2009 @12:51 pm
    

    People of color have so many benefits and advantages afforded to them. Do they need the wheels constantly greased for them or a constant leg up provided? Can they not simply just compete fairly? What say you? Affirmative action…

45. Enigma  •  Aug 3, 2009 @4:57 pm
    

    Racial issues will continually escalate as people continue to fight for the bottom…

46. Eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @5:19 pm
    

    OK…fun isn’t it?
    Gates-Sharpton-Jackson would have had a case, he would have sued the cop, the Police department, the city, the State, and whoever crossed the street in front of him. His legal team came empty handed and Obama realized it too…another Reverend Wright-like petard blew up in his face…but now, as Gates stated , it is time to move on! lol…these guys are soooo fuuuunnnny…

47. Eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @5:33 pm
    

    African Americans and Racism! I’d say BS…you don’t want to be stereotyped, don’t be a stereotype. Asians are doing well, European immigrants from Eastern European dirt poor countries are doing good, everybody, and his sister, and 70% African Americans are indeed living the dream and making it here…but for some reason, we must focus on the 30% who chose not to make it. Racism, they scream! I did not take your seat at school, did not take your loan to better yourself in after school training, did not take your jobs, did not steal your house or your car….it was all there for grab for you before I even dream of coming here. I piled up two part time jobs and borrowed $10 grand over 10 years for a weekend adult tech class…Ten years here, 7 jobs, 9 empoloyers and NEVER had a single social check! I have worked for, with and under dozens of hard working non whinning Blacks. YOU guys make race an issue….YOU guys support legal discrimination, laws that state that you are lesser than everybody else and need a legal push to make it; YOU guys are thin skinned for profit; WE just move on…too busy working…we are also confronted by Cops in our lives but cannot play the race thing (you arrested be because I am Asian, French, whiter, Hispanic, Gay, Indian, Mickey mouse…) so we just comply and move on.

    Stop whinning and crying thes crocodile tears! Stop listening to Sharpton, Wright, Obama, Gates, Jackson, Du Bois…Get up and move it…on your own!

48. Eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @5:40 pm
    

    Cops arresting you in your own house: cops got a call and put their life in the line to save the property of a rich arrogant black man that had been reported to be burglarized. By the time the cops show up, ri8ng the bell, there is a guy in the houise. Sir…your house has been reported blah blah bla…can I see some ID….”

    and -SORRY TO STEREOTYPE…DON’T BE ONE AND i WON’T- I see the rabid Gates, so full of himself for “being someone”, pulling out centuries of racial injustice, racism by cops, rights and constitution…yelling and scremingin the face of the cop. He was lured on the patio and arrested for disorderly conduct! He would have been white, pink, brown, red, yellow, purple or blue, I would have put an end to it with 10.0000 volts, right there.

    How hard was it to say”thank you officer, here is my ID, let me tell you what happened to my door, and I am so grateful that nowadays white cops react so quicqkly to protect a black man’s property!”

    And how hard for the prez to say” I cannot comment until I know the facts behind the incident”

    You guys are so funnnny!

49. Eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @5:45 pm
    

    Obama…so human…makes mistakes…yes, sure but too often! How much more are we going to let him screw up and apologize for it?

    rev Wright: ” The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago.”

    “This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew.”

    on pork barrel: “There is a fundamental public trust that we –the government- must uphold. The American’s people’s money must be spent to advance their priorities and not to line the pockets of contractors or to maintain projects that don’t work”…

    On Daschle: “I screwed up, I take responsibility for this mistake.”

    On AIG: ‘It’s their fault, the Democrats’ fault, the Republicans’ fault.’ Listen, I’ll take responsibility. I’m the president.”

    “the U.S. “is not and never will be at war with Islam,”…

    s

50. Eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @5:51 pm
    

    Obama…so human…makes mistakes…yes, sure but too often! How much more are we going to let him screw up and apologize for it?

    rev Wright: ” The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago.”

    “This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew.”

    on pork barrel: “There is a fundamental public trust that we –the government- must uphold. The American’s people’s money must be spent to advance their priorities and not to line the pockets of contractors or to maintain projects that don’t work”…

    On Daschle: “I screwed up, I take responsibility for this mistake.”

    On AIG: ‘It’s their fault, the Democrats’ fault, the Republicans’ fault.’ Listen, I’ll take responsibility. I’m the president.”

    “the U.S. “is not and never will be at war with Islam,”…

    sWINE FLU: “it would be akin to closing the barn door after the horses are out. ”

    on SOTOMAYOR: “”I’m sure she would have restated it,”

    on Gates: “”I think it’s fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry. No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that’s just a fact.”

    on cops: “I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge police department and Sgt. Crowley specifically. And I could’ve calibrated those words differently.”

    on the media: : “it is the media’s “obsessions” that are keeping alive his comments about the arrest”

    on missed healthcare deadlines: “We did give them a deadline, and sort of we missed that deadline. But that’s OK,”

    Leon Panetta, “one of the finest public servants of our time.”

    And not counting all the crooks, incompetent and tax cheats he nominated for high offices that had to withdraw “not to be a distraction”….how convenient!

    A judgement you can trust all right! lol

51. Eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @6:11 pm
    

    FYI Below POVERTY LEVEL by Races
    CENSUS BUREAU, 2007
    http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/perindex.html

    ALL Family with no husband
    White 10% 26.5%
    Asians 10 17
    Hispanics 21.5 39.5
    Blacks 24 39.6

    Also, my early numbers about hate crimes (FBI data: In 2007, 3221 blacks were murdered. 2905 of them by other African Americans).

    I am glad you guys can blame it all on racism from whitie and snow white…it is OK if it makes you feel better…but time to get a mirror and see what you could do to improve yourselves and not what we should do for you.

52. Eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @6:22 pm
    

    Many studies show that we are becoming “color blind” after decades of endoctrination….and it is seen as a threat now, that is why the sytem is now pushing for “diversity”

    Many would say a new generation that considers race irrelevant is something to be celebrated — the fulfillment of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that his children “will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

    But some experts say the notion of a generation that ignores race paints too rosy a picture.

    They worry that decades devoted to ending racial segregation and creating a colorblind society may have created a new problem: a generation so unconcerned about race that it ignores disparities that still exist.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-07-colorblind_x.htm

53. Enigma  •  Aug 3, 2009 @8:14 pm
    

    It worked out well for him…publicity stunt…booksigning …

    Gates jokes: I offered to help officer’s kids get into Harvard
    • Story Highlights
    • Professor on officer who arrested him: We could lunch or go to a Sox game
    • The lighthearted comments came after Gates and officer met at White House
    • Arrest of Harvard professor sparked discussion on race
    BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) — In his first public appearance since the “Beer Summit” at the White House, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates joked about his controversial arrest last month in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and said he likes police Sgt. James Crowley.
    Sgt. James Crowley and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. sit for beers with the president and vice president Thursday.
    “I offered to get his kids into Harvard if he doesn’t arrest me anymore,” Gates said.
    Gates was speaking Sunday at the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival where he signed copies of his book, “In Search of our Roots.”
    The professor said he plans on meeting with Crowley again. “I offered for the two of us to have lunch together, one-on-one, or go to a Red Sox game, or a Celtics games, or maybe the families can get together for dinner. Why not?”
    Gates had a face-to-face meeting and a beer with Crowley at the White House last week, a move orchestrated by President Obama in an attempt to defuse racial tensions that had erupted following Gates’ arrest. Gates called the president’s gesture “brilliant.”
    Crowley arrested Gates on July 16 when the officer responded to a call of a possible home break-in at the Cambridge residence.
    Gates was charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly yelling at the officer and protesting his actions. But Gates, who is black, claimed he never raised his voice and accused Crowley of racial profiling. Charges against the professor were later dropped.
    The tone at the book fair turned more serious when someone asked Gates how the arrest has affected him. “I’m still trying to figure that out and processing it. It was stressful. I was worried about my daughters.”
    Fortunately, he said, the press was not camped out at his family home like they were at the Cambridge residence, which is owned by the university. He admitted to receiving bomb threats and deaths threats and said the university is encouraging him to move. “I haven’t been back to the Cambridge house since I got arrested so I have to make that decision.”
    He also said he has had to change his phone numbers and close his public e-mail account. “I received thousands of fan letters but some of the e-mails were from crazy wacko people who wrote ‘You should die,’ ‘You’re a racist,’”
    Still, Gates said he doesn’t want to exaggerate the trauma of the arrest. “A lot of people go through far worse. I was in jail for four hours, not four years or four months or four days,” he said.
    “The night before I went to the White House, I had a dream that I got arrested in the White House,” he said.
    Then he joked, “But it’s cool; I was OK.”
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/massachusetts.gates/index.html

54. eric  •  Aug 3, 2009 @9:56 pm
    

    “You all need to read the writing on the wall; the white man’s time has come. Just wait until we turn things around then tell me how you feel.”

    Cannot wait…I want affirmative action, race card and frivolous law suits to make a living….not hard work!
    I want to be judged by the color of my skin and my minority status and not the force of my character!
    I want to bark and yell at people and demand RESPECT, not because I earned it but because my NAACP and ACLU lawyers said so.
    I also want to claim reparations for the soldiers of the North who died to put an end to slavery (always remember that Memeorial day comes from Decoration day, a day of rememberance when freed slaves thanked Northern soldiers by cleaning and decorating their tombs with flowers…Right after the end of the secession war, freed slave dug out Northern soldiers from mass gaves and put them in decent individual graves…and started Decoration day. I guess only freed slaves could do that. Today’s black have never been slave, are the wealthiest black population of the whole world, exposed to the most opportunities -from Prez all the way down to social burden…like any other group- and claim reparations and hands out from people all races who have never had a slave in their lives.)

    I want to call my fellow words I deny anybody else the right to use, etc,etc…

    Guys…what do you know about what the white people feel about minorities….what is minorities…I see individuals…lazy bums, morons, hard working, smart, wise….

    Can you take a PERSONAL responsibility for being what you are? Don’t blame me for your shortcomings, move your butt, up or go, STOP WHINING!

55. Enigma  •  Aug 4, 2009 @1:43 pm
    

    Now that is hitting them between the eye’s with both barrells Eric! Iron fist in a velvet glove…they may think that the whitey’s tolerance is indefinite but then that iron fist comes down …WHEW THEY GOT TOLD … we get pushed we push back!

56. Enigma  •  Aug 4, 2009 @1:44 pm
    

    they always have to travel in packs…

57. Enigma  •  Aug 4, 2009 @1:54 pm
    

    http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/politics/new-anti-obama-joker-poster/

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