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Afterall, rather spending time as a President of the United States, he’d rather be an arbitrator between an African American professor and a cop who arrested him on suspicion of burglary.
Of course, our esteemed “unbiased” president decides to take a local matter into in own hands, all while calling the Boston PD stupid, inciting the general public about “racism”. Maybe his goal is to beat every caucasian into a domicle submissiveness to never question his authority..
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Maybe you’re being a bit too defensive. And exagerating the facts to support that defensiveness.
Nobody was arrested on suspicion of burglary. It was for disturbing the peace, before the charges were dropped. They were dropped because, as a practical matter, it is not illegal to disturb the peace inside your own home. He was arrested for being an uppity black man to a cop. Obama hasn’t taken a local matter into his own hands, there is no remaining local matter, the case was dropped. He didn’t call the Boston PD stupid. (The Boston PD wasn’t even involved.)
If Obama’s very sparse words on the subject, leaves you feeling that you are being beaten to submission, can you imagine how virtually every black man, every man and woman of color feel every day in this country? The poor white man. Always the victim. Of course you want to drop the conversation about race. It’s not comfortable.[/quote]
SK: Well, as a good, little Leftist apologiste for Obama, you’ve managed to skim over certain facts and ignore others completely.
You’re right about it not being Boston PD, but, rather, Cambridge PD (tony suburb in MA). However, you failed to note that Sgt. Crowley (the arresting officer) was flanked by a Hispanic officer and a black officer during the altercation and they both support his contention that Gates was verbally abusive to Crowley throughout.
This same Gates who has a direct line to the Prez of the US and who, like Cornel West, has made quite a living for himself being an “Esteemed Black Academic”. In truth, he’s a loudmouthed buffoon, but everyone, regardless of color, is too terrified to point that out (as in West’s case as well) for fear of being labeled a racist. Gates was more than aware of this when he began his tirade, which focused solely on his color, not his transgression.
A transgression which, by the way, Sgt. Crowley was attempting to figure out. Like it or not, Cambridge is largely white and affluent and Crowley had two black men in a darkened house. He had no way of knowing their intentions and was following procedure, which calls for a police officer to bring the subjects or suspects into the open or outside where he can determine if they’re armed and pose a threat to him.
As far as Gates being arrested because he was black and displayed “contempt of cop”, that’s utter bullshit. That particular offense, as far as cops are concerned, knows no color. You act like a dipshit and attempt to humiliate a cop in front of his peers and bystanders, well, you’re gonna get hooked up, and not in a good way.
Obama, who has been sold to us on the basis of his “critical thinking” and “reasoning” skills, jumped to a conclusion in the absence of any facts and referred to Crowley as having acted “stupidly”. Nope. Obama acted stupidly and to his credit, backed water furiously in an attempt to tamp down a situation he blew completely out of proportion.
For the President of the United States to involve himself in this situation, especially given he didn’t even bother to figure out what really happened, is completely unconscionable. He has the ultimate bully pulpit and when he steps up on that particular soapbox, people listen, especially given his color (or, at least, half his color). He should have kept his mouth shut and figured out exactly what happened before holding forth on racist police officers and this miscarriage of justice.
