About that charity you run, Professor Gates

American Thinker ^ | July 25, 2009 | Clarice Feldman

[jazusamo]

Dan Riehl explores  a charity headed by Professor "Skip" Gates which takes in a lot of money, pays out very little, mostly to his colleagues and assistants at Harvard, was late filing the necessary papers and lists as its office the house Gates rents from Harvard.

Perhaps as Ann Althouse suggested yesterday on her blog there was something in his home that Gates did not want the police to see.

Crowley says that Gates's "tone" was "peculiar." And I'm wondering why the question "Is there anybody in the home with you?" would have upset him so much. It could have been just that it was an invasion of his privacy, but think about this along with the fact that Gates didn't seem to want to report the damage to his door that made him need to force it open when he got home. Did Gates already somehow know who had broken the door while he was away, so that he wanted to protect that person? Was that person in the house, such that the question "Is there anybody in the home with you?" felt threatening to Gates?

Inkwell, the Gates charity is designed to help blacks trace their genealogy through their DNA. The stated purpose for Gates' trip to China which preceded this incident was to study Yoyo Ma's genealogy. Is Inkwell Gates' honeypot to pay for whatever trips he wants to make? 

Does the president have yet another close associate with tax problems?

[hoosiermama]

Don’t want the police to release the tape until certain parties have cemented their stand solid enough so they will be REALLY embarrassed when it is released.

[FR_addict]

Great list. I'm cutting and pasting.

Also is this still good for Rush?
rush@eibnet.com

and this one for Glenn Beck
glennbeck@foxnews.com

His staff did a lot of research on Acorn.

[Andy'smom]

I’m sure we’ll get to hear the tapes eventually, but you’re right, it sure doesn’t match the police report of the incident.

[FR_addict]

“Don’t want the police to release the tape until certain parties have cemented their stand solid enough so they will be REALLY embarrassed when it is released.”

It needs to be released before it “accidentally” gets erased.

Besides Gates has already committed his story on Oprah's radio show. The link is posted above for anyone who wants to download it before it disappears.

Cambridge Police
http://www.cambridgema.gov/CPD/Contact/

[Albion Wilde]

Well, Lincoln was a racist in the sense that he believed he must end slavery as an economic system within the states if he were to preserve the Union and quash secession; but whatever he personally felt, he did not believe that whites and blacks could mix socially in the nation at that time. He experimented with a number of colonization schemes that would have deported blacks upon emancipation, and also set up segregated ranks of those blacks who joined the Union Army.

In simpler times, blacks were led to lionize Lincoln for emancipation, without the additional subtleties of evidence that he was still a man of his time. There's nothing wrong with Gates digging up this information. His taking it out on whites alive today who have no control over the past, or on a policeman doing his job, is a different matter.

[FR_addict]

“I’m sure we’ll get to hear the tapes eventually, but you’re right, it sure doesn’t match the police report of the incident.”

I'm not so sure. I think it will be accidentally erased. The case was dropped against Gates already.

[FR_addict]

Cambridge Police
http://www.cambridgema.gov/CPD/Contact/

I got an automated message from Degou that he is retiring.

Degou, Superintendent David
Commander - Support Services Division

I'll try again with someone else.

[Andy'smom]

Not sure what will happen, but the tapes have to be preserved in case of a lawsuit by Gates. Even Judicial Watch is involved in trying to get them released. I suspect at some point, they will be leaked to a friendly reporter from the Herald.

[hoosiermama]

I don’t have the equipment to copy the material. Jim who can do this?

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It needs to be released before it “accidentally” gets erased.

...snip...

Cambridge Police

http://www.cambridgema.gov/CPD/Contact/

[Albion Wilde]

I listened to the interview. I wasn't stunned, but I thought it was pretty apparent he is lying, when Gayle had to keep prompting him.

Even Gayle didn't sound convinced. And he admitted it was all about his grand stature in life -- how "everybody" knows him, how he "should" have been addressed.

No -- we should not geld the police, Skip. They need to take charge of a situation immediately when there might be a crime in progress.

Gates expressed no understanding of the policeman's point of view: he had no idea what he might be walking into, and might have been facing a drug deal or a gun if it had been an intruder.

I'm very unimpressed, to say the least, with this obvious fibbery. At no time did he tell Gayle about the "your mama" thing, which both officers put in their report; and the next day the black officer also affirmed the arrest.

[FR_addict]

Someone needs to interview the driver too.

It sounded like Gates called him Drifts or something like that and said he was from Morroco.

I want to know what he told the driver about breaking in.
It seems strange to me that Harvard would change the locks on him. Was he current with his rent?

[FR_addict]

Hopefully true about the police tape, but it's hard to prove an accidental erasure or misplaced tape.

Also, Oprah can pull her radio show’s interview.

[FR_addict]

Other links:

A Conversation with Skip Gates: “My mother hated white people...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301122/posts

Professor Gates held fundraiser for Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301136/posts

[Ann Archy]

Is Yoyo Ma BLACK???

Maybe THAT"S what he was saying to Crowley..."YOYO MA"! ANd Crowley thought he said "YOUR MOMMA"!

[Ann Archy]

BINGO! Rahm has his house in a Charitable Trust so he doesn’t have to pay PROPERTY TAXES!!! Typical Democrat....wants to raise everyone else’s taxes while not paying their own!

[Ann Archy]

So gates will write a book about his arrest and make a million out of it!1 Nice Gig he has.

[FR_addict]

Evidently, Gates is a friend of Anita Hill. Seems like he thinks a lot of her in this piece on OJ.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/10/23/1995_10_23_056_TNY_CARDS_000372419?printable=true

An Analysis of his article above:
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/07/24/gates-from-1995.aspx
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on O.J., Reconsidered

Worried about OJ supporters and Anita Hill, but not what Anita Hill and the libeerals in Congress did to Clarence Thomas. Clarence Thomas was truly a color blind man when he was head of the Civil Rights division and now on the Supreme Court.

[Ann Archy]

I think Gayle thought something MORE had happened since there was NO explanation of him going off on the cop....she was a little taken back.

[LucyJo]

Yes. He’s wanting to “move on” now that he has had his say, and the POTUS, the Governor, and the Mayor, have all played their parts...and, before the Cambridge police decide to reveal what’s on the tape of this “racist” incident publicly. But, sometime in the future after all has quieted down, and facts forgotten, the “learned” professor will release his “contributions to the history of the African-American experience in America” including clips and quotes from his powerful and impressive friends and advocates, of course. The Oliver Stone of academy.

[bustinchops]

Maybe he’s a homo and had an 18 year-old kid in his bed or bent over a living room chair, depanted and panting.