Maybe it was fear of being labeled a racist.
Posted on 07/27/2009 8:03:25 PM PDT by myknowledge
The role of race in the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. became more difficult to untangle Monday with the release of the tape of the emergency call that brought Cambridge, Mass., police to his door.
The tape revealed that the woman who reported seeing two men trying to break into a house did not know their race. When pressed twice by the dispatcher to identify the men by race, Lucia Whalen said: "Um, well, there were two larger men. One looked kind of Hispanic, but I'm not really sure. And the other one entered and I didn't see what he looked like at all."
Nearly all of the facts about what happened before Gates and Sgt. James Crowley met at the scene of a possible break-in are now known. The stories diverge when the two men are alone together in the house, navigating what both have since called an "unfortunate" encounter. That encounter exploded into a national incident, one that has since prompted President Obama to discuss the fraught relationship between minorities and police and to invite both Gates and Crowley to the White House for a beer this Thursday evening.
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Maybe it was fear of being labeled a racist.
Sgt. Crowley should not go to the White House without the other two cops.
He’s about to get the Mau-Mau from two experienced race agitators into apologizing and saying that he overreacted.
I wonder whether Gates was inebriated that night. Maybe “come to the White House for a beer” is code for “Gates would never pass up an opportunity for alcohol consumption.”
Two things:1) Gates obviously has an enormous chip on his shoulder; he’s angry, looking for a racist behind every bush. Has anyone on the news mentioned this? 2) If he didn’t have that chip, he would’ve been happy to have the cops come to protect his house and wouldn’t have acted like an ass. Shoot, I’m afraid to say ANYTHING even remotely uppity (not a racial slur, sorry if you think so, Gates must’ve gotten that way, to an extreme, however) to a cop, and I’m white!
When you’re calling 911 about some dumb-ass old F&@# who is kicking in the door, would you notice his race?
caller: There’s a guy breaking in!
911: How big? What’s he look like? Black, white, Hispanic, what?
caller: No. Some chubby old F&@#.
I haven’t heard a word about his butt buddy- Did he even stick his head out the door? What’s the matter, he’s not out yet?
I posted this 2 days ago ;-)
lets call this stupidgate
What? I thought it became much easier now.
-PJ
I feel like I'm in Alice in Wonderland.
The role of race in the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. became more difficult to untangle Monday with the release of the tape, because no matter what Officer Crowley says, we in the media are programmed to think that Professor Gates is being completley truthful and honest, and that therefore the police officer and/or the 911 caller must be hateful racists, and so the information in this tape will force us to come up with an entirely new explanation for this incident that still fits into our chosen story line about racism in law enforcement...
-PJ
Why release the 911 call and not the recording of the incident? Didn’t the cop record the entire incident?
Maybe racegate, or 911gate.
How about Gatesgate!
Of course the liberal media does not mention that Obama fueled the racial issue when he have his racist answer last week press conference and now they are selling his smoke and mirror crap of getting the two together for a beer. Very few are buying this, Obama has been exposed as a racist and it is too late to change this in the minds of many people who before that thought that he was not a racist.
Interesting. Isn’t skin color part of a physical description? I listened to the call, and she did say that one of the two might be Hispanic. How is that any less racist than describing someone as black? The logical inconsistency is absurd.
Typical WaPo BS. Role of race difficult to untangle? There was no role that race played except on the part of Gates.
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