Would Gates and Obama treat a black officer like this?
Would Gates and Obama treat a black officer like this?
Interesting twist to this case, isn't it?Originally Posted by Scott Campbell
The Governor needs to look at the laws of his own state. You can't be in your own home or anywhere for that matter raising your voice and saying whatever you like. What if the governor's neighbor was a white supremacist and all day long was "raising his voice" in his own home about how he felt about the gov. Would the gov then be behind his neighbor about his freedom to speak how he wanted? Yeah, right.Originally Posted by SkinBasket
All hail the Ruler of the Meadow!
He didn't get arrested for making the stink inside. He got arrested for continuing to be an ass outside, and disturbing the peace.
Sounds like a case of race baiting to me. I wonder if Harvard should consider disciplinary action. And I wonder if Obama will pay for his racist comments during the next election.
President Obama stopped short of an apology to Sgt. James Crowley on Friday for saying he "acted stupidly" for arresting black Harvard scholar Henry Lewis Gates Jr., but said he should have chosen his words more carefully.
At an impromptu appearance at the daily White House briefing, Obama said he spoke with Crowley over the phone, and said he wanted to share a beer with Crowley and Gates at the White House.
"Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically and I could have calibrated those words differently."
"You're all very smart, and I'm very dumb." - Partial
Originally Posted by Obama
"Gave an impression", huh?Originally Posted by SkinBasket
How the false messiah gave "an impression" - Obama's comment: "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."
Why can't the guy say, "I'm sorry and I should not have said anything until I knew all the facts"?
The president dropped the ball on this one, big time.
Busting drunk drivers in Antarctica since 2006
The aspect of racism that no one wants to talk about. Will Harvard treat Gates the same as they would treat a white professor who was antagonistic toward a black officer and shouted accusations of being a racist at the black officer?Originally Posted by Scott Campbell
Please. This is Harvard. This is the place where Larry Summers wondered aloud about the reasons why female professors were underrepresented in the science and engineering departments at American universities and Harvard’s PC faculty turned him into the biggest misogynist that ever existed. He got drummed out as president for simply wondering aloud and voicing a hypothetical.Originally Posted by Patler
Free speech. Academic freedom. Give me a break.
By the way, just watch, the media will be sorely tempted to turn this into another Duke Lacrosse Rape case. They don't care about the facts. They care more about promoting a stereotype.
The only thing that will stop them is that they have taken the role of running shotrun for Obama's legislative agenda. They may back off the compelling narrative for fear that their boy Obama will catch the backlash.
However, if a Republican was in office, you can bet that they would take this story and run with it. They would have Cambridge, Mass as the new HQ of the KKK.
The real disaster here is that Obama and other uppity blacks are still talking about making this an excuse for furthering their victim status agenda even after it's been made pretty damned clear that race had nothing to do with this - other than Mr. Gates' absurd and insulting lies.
If you want an honest discussion about race and law enforcement in this country why the mother fuck would you choose this non-incident as your jumping off point? Apparently Mr. Gates, Mr. Obama, and others seem to believe and encourage the idea that being a black man in America is a free pass to do and say as you please when confronted by law enforcement because some police in some places at various times have been racists.
"You're all very smart, and I'm very dumb." - Partial
I see the real problem (disaster) here, is with statements that include comments like this:
The real disaster here is that Obama and other uppity blacks....
Originally Posted by packinpatland
Funny - I don't remember the president mentioning that in his faux apology.
Uppity: presumptuously arrogant, presumptuous, above oneself, self-important.
Defines Mr. Obama and Mr. Gates quite well I believe. If you have an issue with the historical context of the word, please take it up with history, not with me.
"You're all very smart, and I'm very dumb." - Partial
Faux Apology? Au Contraire Scott. It wasn't "faux" it was "perfectly calibrated".Originally Posted by Scott Campbell