Posted on 07/21/2009 5:51:48 AM PDT by Islander7
BOSTON – Supporters of a prominent Harvard University black scholar who was arrested at his own home by police responding to a report of a break-in say he is the victim of racial profiling.
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"Gates continued to yell at me, accusing me of racial bias and continued to tell me that I had not heard the last of him," the officer wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Gates, 58, also refused to speak publicly Monday, referring calls to Ogletree.
"He was shocked to find himself being questioned and shocked that the conversation continued after he showed his identification," Ogletree said.
And if there was a commotion of some sort in the home due to an intruder, and police chose not to investigate, there would likewise have been accusations of racism. These “victims” never fail to play the card out of turn.
Bullshit. Heard the real story on the radio (WTTK). He was spotted trying to pry-open his front door. Police asked for ID and he refused and went into an incoherent anti-white rant. He was acting wild and they took him into custody. Now he’s crying “racism.” The PERFECT Harvard professor!
This black pig’s life’s work and ridiculous attitude is the only reason I have any negative thoughts of black folks.
“I am a professional race hustler, dammit! You will be destroyed after I am done with you, whitey.”
Now that we have our first affirmative action prez0dint, it is all the more clear how harmful this mentality is.
It’s nothing but race, race, race now in the US. The city camper incident at the NJ country club was a hugely trumped up charge and, last I heard, the race-hustling lawyer wants the entire board of the club to resign and he wants to bankrupt the entire club.
If this keeps up, our first mulatto president is going to preside over a huge setback in race relations as the race-hustling industry is mushrooming. Ordinary Americans are going to get pretty fed up with this.
Can you imagine if the police had not followed up on the call-in by a Harvard employee of a suspected break in? The guy had to pursue it and he got a heap of abuse in the process.
he’s SCHOKED after he launches into a tirade??? roflmao
he’s another liberal scumbag & probably smokes pot,too.
“Does you know who I is?”
That is the ultimate truth. The only thing that will make all the white haters and anti Western nation droids happy is for whites to acquiesce on their knees and total capitulation of the US as a Western/white Nation. Of course the problem too is that we have many on the right who have also drank the Marxist koolaid. They have no problem with the destruction of the US by massive invasion and actively support "multiculturalism", "egalitarianism" & are "anti-racist"
This incident is like free advertising...race noise increases the visibility of his race-based job and might even increase the enthusiasm of students for race-based majors at Harvard.
Gates is, for all intents and purposes, a more refined and well-educated kind of Jackson or Sharpton...but he still makes his living as a race pimp.
Yikes.
Academics come into contact with the same real life that the rest of us live with every day of the year,and they can’t hack it.
I’m still not sure, from the details of this story, just why he was handcuffed, except that it became a personal confrontation between the cop and him, with the cop just trying to do his job, and Gates showing no signs of ‘respect’ for that, but this is EXACTLY the kind of exacerbated tension I expected now that we’ve entered the
MAGICAL AGE OF OBAMA.
Having said all that, Harvard is pretty much going broke, for the first time, I think, in the 370 years of its existence.
And having said that, Henry Louis Gates always impressed me as a very middle of the road, non-militant, and rather
special kind of scholar, decidedly NOT the type to blow up a thing like this into a “issue”.
But like I said, we’re in the age of Obama.
if he hadn’t acted like a loon maybe he would have been beter off.
Reminds me of the Congresswoman who was p o’d the guard didn’t recognize her, but she was acting like trash, so why would he?
I think anybody of any color found trying to pry his way into a house, particularly if the neighbors (who obviously didn’t recognize him as the occupant) called, would be questioned by the police.
I’m sure he flew off the handle at them. Gates in the photo above looks older and almost scruffy, and it’s possible that his Harvard ID didn’t look much like him, which would have meant that they might not have immediately accepted it. Plus, they always run a warrant check, etc. in a situation like this, regardless of your color.
“...Harvard is pretty much going broke, for the first time, I think, in the 370 years of its existence.”
? ? ? ? ?
How did that occur with the enormous endowment Harvard has?
Decades ago, if a building was worth owning in Cambridge, chances were 50::50 that Harvard owned it.
How did that happen? An inheritance here, and an inheritance there, continued for 250 years - and they all add up.
The above is a copy of the police report. It was a link in an earlier Boston Globe article but is no longer there. I got this copy from a “diverse” web site that used to “demonstrate” the racism of the police department and white America. Of course they cherry picked the parts they wanted.
Were any of the cops African-Americans?
Cops deal every day with ranting old codgers with canes, black and white. Couldn't they figure this out?
This is Harvard housing in Cambridge. The guy has been living there for years. The cops couldn't figure that out? The neighbors couldn't figure that out?
Tempest in a Teapot, boys. And don't be too quick to condemn the old Affirmative Action @$$hat on this one ... IMHO it smells like the cops helped turn this everyday situation into an international cause.
Harvard has turned from an American standard to a cesspool so it is gong broke.
Don’t let’s forget that the reason the Northeast is so backward and liberal is this:
When the American Revolution was won, the losers were forced into Canada. Bit by bit, they have crept back down over the border the descendants and their monarchist defeatist philosophy. They are America haters. The American Revolution will never be truly over, but will have to be defended continually from the creeping crud
Well, the neighbors called it in, so obviously they didn’t recognize him, either.
“By the time police arrived, Gates was already inside. Police say he refused to come outside to speak with an officer, who told him he was investigating a report of a break-in.”
Cop knocks on my door, he’ll have to break the window and unlock it from the inside to talk to me. Have heard on Christian radio and read online, from purportedly Christian lawyers, that one should never answer any cop’s questions. Sounds like good advice to me.
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