Posted on 07/26/2009 5:30:09 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Where is Lucia Whalen hiding?
She's the woman who on Thursday, July 16, 2009 around 12:30pm called Cambridge, Massachusetts police to say that, "two large black men with backpacks" were breaking into a house on Ware St. Ware St. is not far from Harvard Square, and anyone living in that vicinity is usually affiliated with Harvard University or very wealthy.
Turns out the person she saw breaking in was esteemed scholar of African American history, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. trying to get into his own home! T
urns out he and his chaffeuer were wearing suits, there were three pieces of luggage on the porch and a Town Car parked outside. Prof. Gates had just returned from a trip to China. Prof. Gates is an older gentleman, small and walks with a cane.
As you've heard in the news, Prof. Gates was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after asking Sgt. Jim Crowley to produce ID. The charges were later dropped.
At first I thought the incident happened at night. Turns out it happened in broad daylight. So, from what I can conclude about Ms. Whalen is that she is a BIGOT!
Yes, she may have been well intentioned calling in a potential B&E (Breaking & Entering), but her description of the two men was way off. What did she want...the police to shoot the two black men with backpacks?
If Prof. Gates was a younger, stronger looking black man he probably would have been shot in his own home! Did she want to be declared a hero for nabbing two black men.
Obviously she didn't expect to see black people living in a nice house on Ware St.
Lucia Whalen goes down in history as the woman who showed the world that racism is alive in America today. Lucia Whalen goes down in history as the woman who almost started a race riot, and international incident.
She goes down as the woman who led President Obama to be reminded by bigoted white folks that even though he is President he is still an n-word! Thanks to Lucia Whalen, a stellar police sergeant is now labelled, Sgt. Jim Crow, while Prof. gates is labelled Prof. Uppity!
Now there's a new saying, "Being home while black!" Yes, it was her actions that started the tsunami of emotion and polarization.
What was Lucia Whalen doing on Ware St. in Cambridge and she lives in Malden, MA? Well, she is the Fundraising and Circulation manager for Harvard magazine which has its offices on the same Ware St....just a few doors down from Prof. Gates home.
Why is she hiding? And what does Harvard magazine have to say about this? They should be ashamed to have someone who does not know Prof. Gates on their staff. The magazine has done many articles on him and his work. He is one of the prides of Harvard University.
I would ask Harvard magazine to make Lucia Whalen watch films like ROOTS, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, & Prof. Gates PBS series on African American history. She needs to be sensitized that black people are human beings too!
Come out from hiding Lucia Whalen and explain your side!
bttt
What about the charity? Any update on the flow of funds?
They are trying to shift the story away fron Gates and blame it on the racist neighbour.
This is the mindset of “zero” and michelle. I’m sure they’ll invite the author over for a beer with rev. wright.
Oh, boy...
I’d be hiding too, if I were her. Sounds like this guy wants to beat the crap out of her.
The “racist” charge didn’t stick to the cop, so she’s next in line...
What an accurate, objective piece of writing. It makes it sound like Gates said very politely to the officer, ‘May I see your ID, please’ and bam, he’s cuffed and hauled away.
What is this writer smoking?
She’s not a neighbor (her office is in a house near to Gates’s house, which is owned by Harvard)
and she does not work with him. Both are employed by Harvard but he’s a professor and she works on Harvard Magazine.
He had only recently moved into the neighborhood. She’s not his neighbor in any normal sense of the word.
This story is nonsense. It’s tinfoil fodder.
That’s the point - she wasn’t a neighbor as earlier reported. She was just happening by and saw this scene. Next time...what would you do???
I suspect she was in on it. The whole thing set up to cause a stir.
This woman did the right thing and now her whole life may be ruined. She’s going to need a lot of courage because there’s probably going to be some people at Harvard who’ll try to blame her for this.
I would call the cops.
I was going on the earlier reports that she was a neighbour and thought it strange that she did not recognise him.
Asked?! This is yellow journalism.
Lucy Whalen is the fund raising manager of Gates Work Place Magazine!
http://harvardmagazine.com/contact/staff
WOW, what a different tone from the other article posted about 15 minutes ago.
These editorial hit pieces really need to be toned down.
I know free speech and all,
but damn I guess it all in the eye of the beer holder (beholder).
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