Gates is patently guilty of racial profiling. He looked out his front door, saw a white police officer and immediately drew every conclusion he felt he needed to draw, and he hasn’t modified a single one of his conclusions since. Gates appears incapable capable of learning from experience. In other words he is a committed, irredeemable racist.
If he had looked out onto his porch and seen a black police officer, as it might have been, but for the intercession of random chance, do any of us have any doubt that the entire episode would have gone down VERY differently?
Gates couldn’t have used his racial epithets and threats, and would probably have not provoked a confrontational episode. The incident would likely not have resulted in an arrest, and would not have made the national news.
The only reason that this incident escalated is because Gates racially stereotyped the white police officer and then treated him, not as a human being, but as a token for all white men.
Gates’ actions are despicable, and his post incident utterances have been totally consistent with a desire to milk every racial droplet. Even his “acceptance” of Obama’s invitation to settle things over a beer with the offer, was accepted with the caveat that he would use it as a teaching example.
I’m sorry, but until Mr. Gates can admit that he has a thing or two to learn, he has no status to teach anyone anything about race.
Simple Gates is a racist. a WHITEY HATING BLACK RACIST.