Obama, Gates, and the Problem of Black Guilt

Townhall.com ^ | July 29, 2009 | Ben Shapiro

[Scanian]

The situation in Cambridge, Mass., surrounding Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest has been analyzed and reanalyzed from nearly every angle. The character of police Sgt. James Crowley has been dragged through the mud, then polished, then dragged through the mud again.

But Gates has, for the most part, escaped scrutiny. At worst, he has been described as a racialist, a man who sees every aspect of American life through the lens of ethnicity. At best, he has been described (by racialist and full-fledged polysyllable-babbling idiot Michael Eric Dyson) as the "Rosa Parks of racial profiling.”

But Gates is more than that. He is a faux moderate who, underneath it all, is convinced that American society is deeply and irreparably racist. He is an opportunist, and a defender and purveyor of the "dominant white racism" myth that continues to plague American society.

He is, underneath it all, Barack Obama.

Which is why President Obama came to Gates’ defense without knowing the facts and without knowing Sgt. Crowley. He and Gates are on the same wavelength: The police are, by and large, a bunch of discriminatory brutes. Whites can never quite do enough to atone for the sins of their ancestors. And blacks, short of openly violent conduct, can never do anything that would justify arrest.

Here is Gates on racial profiling in New York magazine from 1997: "Blacks -- in particular, black men -- swap their experiences of police encounters like war stories, and there are few who don’t have more than one story to tell … There’s a moving violation that many African-Americans know as DWB.: Driving While Black."

Obama thinks like Gates on racial profiling.

[Dr. Ursus]

If you can’t do the time,don’t do the crime.

[hershey]

Nicely put.

[bustinchops]

To anybody who wants a ‘ROFLMAO’ moment in the context of this imbroglio, you will NOT be sorry if you go here:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/07/cambridge-police-profiling-still-a-grim-reality-for-harvard-faculty-assholes.html

[Carley]

And unremarkably, there was Lawrence O’Donnell on TV last evening calling Sergeant Crowley a liar.

So where have we heard that before from the loony larry.

[jwparkerjr]

re: there are few who don’t have more than one story to tell

I suspect a lot of this storytelling is like the recounting of a guy’s encounter with the opposite sex the night before. Any similarity to they story they tell and what actually happened is purely coincidental! That’s the way guys are. Always have been and always will. We embellish a story to portray ourselves in the best possible light. If it’s a date then we hit a home run. If it’s an encounter with the cops then we were racially profiled, bullied and roughed up, probably arrested on trumped up charges of disorderly conduct.

[Bluebird Singing]

obama, the race-baiting president, now proposes a beer to promote healing.

What a joke. obama is exposing another one of his white stereotypes. obama is racist to the core.

All stupid white men love beer. I can just see him and Michelle laughing their a$$es off.

[Verginius Rufus]

Obama will offer Sgt. Crowley a Bud while he and Professor Gates have some Chardonnay.