Posted on 07/23/2009 3:41:48 AM PDT by suspects
[‘I said, are you doing this because I’m a black man in America? Are you doing this because you’re a white police officer and I am a black man?” - Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounting a conversation with his arresting officer in Cambridge.] - italics
So what if the cop had been BLACK?
What if Sgt. James Crowley happened to be one of Cambridge’s 41 black police officers rather than bearing as he does the affliction of whiteness? If a black police sergeant responded to the call of a possible breaking and entering, and asked Gates for some form of identification, what would have happened then?
Gates would have been just as tired after his trip to China - an excuse his defenders use to explain his arrogance and rudeness.
And if having a cop show up at your door and ask about your identity is, as Gates claims, intrusive or insulting, it would have been just as intrusive from a black cop as a white one.
The context would have been identical as well: Nine daytime, front-door break-ins reported in the neighborhood in the first quarter of 2009; Gates’ own door damaged by a previous, possible break-in attempt, according to the police report.cw0
Imagine all the facts and all the circumstances identical, but a black police officer instead of a white one. What would have been different?
Everything.
The tired professor would have found the strength to hand over his ID without significant objection. The officer would have gone on his way. No angry shouts, no (alleged) “yo mama” comments, no screams so loud they attracted the neighbors, or embarrassing photos of a raging Skip Gates on the front of the Herald.
All changed, not because of a different cop, but a different Professor Gates.
The Gates who greeted Crowley was a racist. And I know, because...
That's easy. Gates would have called him a "Tom" or a "Puppet for Da Man". Liberals have a general hostility toward police, even as they are busily building a Police-state.
... which raises the possibility of Gates being intoxicated...
Hey, if Obama can give an uninformed opinion, then so can I, right?
Arrogance and rudeness are not grounds for arrest in a free America. The cop felt the need to show who's boss after being insulted in front of others. A person that cannot handle the public in all its forms should not be a cop. Fire him.
If the cop had been black, Gates would have pulled out the old “Uncle Tom” canard.
Haha, absolutely!
I know that I trust Crowley, a public servant sworn to protect (and a racial profiling TEACHER, for heaven’s sake) a whole heckuva lot more than a man determined to dismantle everything good about our country.
Crowley showed a ton more class and respect towards the racist Gates than racist Obama did to all white police officers in calling the cops “stupid” on national television. The idiot thug in the WH is the most embarassing president EVER. I just can’t stand this!
LLS
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