In effect, Gates is saying... 
"Only one in the woodpile!"
Hey, Brother Gates and Reverend Wright taught me... 
all I know about race
Or in the words of the esteemed professor, "I'll see yo mama on the porch!"
How is he different than David Duke?
Intersting that Gates went to an almost all-white school.
In that, he is much like Obama, who is black only in the sense of half his DNA having come from Africa. As far as Obama goes, he’s actually a dark-complected white man, raised in an all-white family, and brushing elbows with few black kids in school, attending Pounahou School, a private school for rich white kids in short pants.
Winfrey has earned everything she's gotten, by intelligence and hard work. Both Williams and Sowell are worth the rest of the list, all put together. Gates, in short, is a blowhard who should not be taken seriously, at Harvard or anywhere else.
Congressman Billybob
Are we getting the picture NOW?!
Well am I disappointed.............
Reading the headline, I sure thought I was being singled out like Jim Thompson.
Gates is a fake, there can be only one HNIC, the real HNIC is nobama and they better not forget it!!
I probably read something by Waugh instead. I'd like to think Black Mischief or Waugh in Abyssinia or something similarly seditious.
Gates, has done a lot, and a lot of it has merit; but his ambitious quest for elitism really can't compare to the career of Booker T. Washington, who was a real educator and uplifter of his people.
This basically '60s idea of continuing to cherish the sacred wound of slavery in one's bosom and drawing a bright line around skin color and African culture in order to bash others and make oneself seem morally superior is anti-Christian, as well as tired and outdated. Racism is collectivism is fascism.
Even Oprah, after her various travels to Africa, said on her show that she is grateful when all is said and done for the circumstances that made it possible for her to be here now — which did include slavery of her ancestors.
The civil rights struggle was a huge victory; yet Gates casually throwing out there his mother's unreconstructed remarks that whites are trash and smell bad does not begin to touch the hem of MLK's garment. Would Gates like to pick up a newspaper and read the kind of things our forebearers said about black people -- no. The majority of white Americans don't repeat those things we heard our pre-civil rights relatives said; and he should know by now the difference between an academic documentation and a chatty interview aimed at the general public. No one in America is above it all. As he will soon come to realize, not even Obama.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (pronounced doo-BOYSS) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana.
Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism— scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity..."In 1895, Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University....
While prominent white scholars denied African-American cultural, political and social relevance to American history and civic life, in his epic work Black Reconstruction, Du Bois documented how black people were central figures in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and also showed how they made alliances with white politicians. He provided evidence to disprove the Dunning School theories of Reconstruction, showing the coalition governments established public education in the South, as well as many needed social service programs. He demonstrated the ways in which Black emancipation— the crux of Reconstruction — promoted a radical restructuring of United States society, as well as how and why the country failed to continue support for civil rights for blacks in the aftermath of Reconstruction....
Du Bois was the most prominent intellectual leader and political activist on behalf of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century...Believing that [whites] should [be included], in 1909 Du Bois with a group of like-minded supporters founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)....
In 1934, Du Bois left the [editorship of the NAACP] magazine to return to teaching at Atlanta University, after writing two essays published in the Crisis suggesting that black separatism could be a useful economic strategy.... .
..In 1950, at the age of 82, Du Bois ran for U.S. Senator from New York on the American Labor Party ticket and polled a little over 200,000 votes, about 4 % of the total. Although he lost, Du Bois remained committed to the progressive labor cause. In 1958, he would join with Trotskyists, ex-Communists and independent radicals in proposing the creation of a united left-wing coalition to challenge for seats in elections for the New York State Senate and Assembly....
He was questioned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) about his alleged communist sympathies. He was indicted in the United States under the Foreign Agents Registration Act and acquitted for lack of evidence.
In 1959, Du Bois received the Lenin Peace Prize. In 1961, at the age of 93, he joined the Communist Party USA, at a time when it was long past its peak of support....
Du Bois wrote and published more than 4,000 articles, essays, and books over the course of his 95-year life.
Click to read the full Wikipedia biography of W. E. B. Du Bois
In effect, Gates is saying... "Only one in the woodpile!"
Hey, Brother Gates and Reverend Wright taught me... all I know about race