Uppity Black Angry at PoPo for Doing Their Job

[SkinBasket]

President Obama said Thursday he was surprised by all the hubbub over his comments that a white police officer had acted "stupidly" in arresting a prominent black scholar for disorderly conduct. The president didn't take back his words, but he allowed that he understood the sergeant who made the arrest is an "outstanding police officer."

"I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement," Obama said in an interview with ABC News, "because I think it was a pretty straightforward comment that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who's in his own home."

The sad part is that by this point, I actually believe he is surprised.

[SkinBasket]

And the black politicians keep inflaming the situation:

But Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, once the top civil rights official in the Clinton administration and now, like Obama, the first black to hold his job, labeled the arrest "every black man's nightmare."

The governor told reporters: "You ought to be able to raise your voice in your own house without risk of arrest."

The "racist" officer in question has spent 5 of the last 6 years volunteering his time, at the request of his black superior officer, teaching new recruits how to avoid racial profiling. Looks like Henry and his political pals chose the wrong non-event to try to blow up into national race victimhood festival. It's really unfortunate our President decided to stick his face into this pathetic attempt at racial division by a self important, intellectually dishonest man with an agenda and friends in high places.

[Patler]

Sorry if this has already been posted. If it has, I didn't catch it.
You can read the actual incident reports from the two officers here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html

[SkinBasket]

An apology from our esteemed leader could set the tone between the other parties involved and cap the tensions where they're at. Instead we get more rhetoric and excuses.

White House spokesman Roberts Gibbs said Friday that Obama regrets that the media have gotten all worked up over the controversy and been distracted from other more substantive issues such as health care.

He regrets that the media has been distracted from pushing his agenda? How very noble of our esteemed ruler to stir the race pot, then run away. This fucking guy just does not get it. At first I thought he was just arrogant, but I'm really starting to believe he's just kind of stupid. And arrogant. But I'll be damned if he can't read scrolling words like no one's business!

[Scott Campbell]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2299085/posts

The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday. “I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,” Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer. It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete. “Some people were saying ‘There’s the guy who killed Reggie Lewis’ afterward. I was broken-hearted. I cried for many nights,” he said. Crowley, 42, said he’s not a racist, despite how some have cast his actions in the Gates case. “Those who know me know I’m not,” he said. Yesterday, Lewis’ widow, Donna Lewis, was floored to learn the embattled father of three on the thin blue line of a national debate on racism in America was the same man so determined to rescue her husband. “That’s incredible,” Lewis, 44, exclaimed. “It’s an unfortunate situation. Hopefully, it can resolve itself. The most important thing is peace.”

[Scott Campbell]

Would Gates and Obama treat a black officer like this?

[Patler]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2299085/posts

The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday. “I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,” Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer. It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete. “Some people were saying ‘There’s the guy who killed Reggie Lewis’ afterward. I was broken-hearted. I cried for many nights,” he said. Crowley, 42, said he’s not a racist, despite how some have cast his actions in the Gates case. “Those who know me know I’m not,” he said. Yesterday, Lewis’ widow, Donna Lewis, was floored to learn the embattled father of three on the thin blue line of a national debate on racism in America was the same man so determined to rescue her husband. “That’s incredible,” Lewis, 44, exclaimed. “It’s an unfortunate situation. Hopefully, it can resolve itself. The most important thing is peace.”

Interesting twist to this case, isn't it?

[Cheesehead Craig]

And the black politicians keep inflaming the situation:

But Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, once the top civil rights official in the Clinton administration and now, like Obama, the first black to hold his job, labeled the arrest "every black man's nightmare."

The governor told reporters: "You ought to be able to raise your voice in your own house without risk of arrest."

The "racist" officer in question has spent 5 of the last 6 years volunteering his time, at the request of his black superior officer, teaching new recruits how to avoid racial profiling. Looks like Henry and his political pals chose the wrong non-event to try to blow up into national race victimhood festival. It's really unfortunate our President decided to stick his face into this pathetic attempt at racial division by a self important, intellectually dishonest man with an agenda and friends in high places.

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.

[Scott Campbell]

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.

[SkinBasket]

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."

[Scott Campbell]

..... I could have calibrated those words differently."

[Kiwon]

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."

"Gave an impression", huh?

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"?

[falco]

The president dropped the ball on this one, big time.

[Patler]

I wonder if Harvard should consider disciplinary action.

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?

[Kiwon]

I wonder if Harvard should consider disciplinary action.

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?

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.

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.