Posted on 07/25/2009 7:19:28 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
William Kristol of The Weekly Standard writes:
A friend sends along this link, apropos my comment last night on the Special Report panel that President Obama’s instinctive identification with Professor Gates (and his willingness to attack Sergeant Crowley without knowing the facts) was as much about class as race.
In a short note in the August 2007 Travel and Leisure magazine, Gates explains why Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard is his favorite place:
“I started going to Oak Bluffs in 1981 and fell in love with the light. It reminded me of the light in the south of France, near St.-Paul-de-Vence, which for me was a déjà vu experience—it evoked the summer of 1973, when I spent a wonderful time in France with James Baldwin and Josephine Baker....I spend every July and August in my house near Oak Bluffs. I love bicycling, and because of a hip replacement I had a couple of years ago, I had a 24-speed tricycle made by hand in Germany.” Etc.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
"Every day I write in the morning, then ride eight miles from my house to South Beach. I get off, look at the ocean, then get back on and ride home. My tricycle has a bell that sounds like the Good Humor man, and I ring it when I pass people. Everybody waves and says, 'There goes that Henry Louis Gates Jr.!'"
Folks, you might want to avoid putting your blanket down on that spot on the beach where Gates likes to "get off" and "look at the ocean."
Dan, look even further into Inkwell. As in Inkwell Beach at Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. This is where Obama was planning on spending some of his summer holidays. He may no longer be doing so. The history of this summer community is quite rich -literally. I had a friend in college days who was a member of one of the original families of this colony. As she explained it to me, they are the descendents of the “token black” system put in place by the Ivy Leagues after the Civil War. Each class year of each Ivy had a “token black” student come up from the South (by train) and all expenses were paid for his education plus he was given an allowance that equal his peers. My friend’s ancestor was, like her, at Brown. He didn’t he bring a suitcase with him. Her whole family had either gone to Brown or Harvard -many on this program. I think the AME Church is part of this as well. This colony is beyond elite. These folks are highly intelligent, extremely cultured, and incredibly successful. A book chronicling their lifestyles has been written about them - they even have their own debutante system:
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Kind-People-Inside-Americas/dp/0060984384
This life is far different than the average American middle class African American (or White) family experience and in another world from the hellish experience of the inner city African American family. To think Americans like Gates and his fellow Inkwells are content to summer in Martha’s Vineyard with a 68% illiteracy rate among African American 3rd graders or that 80%+ of the African American babies born in Detroit are illegitimate and born below the poverty line and living a quality of life you wouldn’t want subject an animal to is monstrous. They, better than any other Americans, understand the value of a real education. Their lives are a testament to what a good education combined with freedom and free enterprise can do for an individual in America.
More on Inkwell Beach - find out if the name is a nod to their educations as I suspect it is:
http://www.mvheritagetrail.org/oakbluffs.html
Oh, and when you learn about Inkwell, you understand what a phony race pimp Gates is. Along with Cornell West.
Posted by: Mrs. Peperium | Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/07/a-gatesgate-at-henry-gates-bogus-charity.html
why don’t you ride that trike down the paseo and see what your bros think about it homeboy
What a schmuck! Can anyone be more full of themselves? Oh yeh! I forgot about Zero...he’s a treasure trove of narcissistic psychoses!
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They sound like a couple of tutti-fruities.
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LOL!
Putts from the rough?
Isn't that redundant? He's a known liberal, so arrogant elitist just goes with the territory. He's also a race-baiter and apparently doesn't like whites or Police much either.
A tale of two freeloaders. One in a Harvard-owned house in Cambridge, the other in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania in DC.
Thanks for posting. More insight into the character of Henry Louis Gates Jr. What an elitist/racist POS.
look at all obama’s friends
William Ayers, arrogant elitist racist leftist
Jeremiah Wright, arrogant elitist racist leftist
Gates, arrogant elitist racist leftist
Every thing Rush and other Conservatives have said about race and Obama and Democrats is being played out in the MSM. Blacks use race as an excuse for anything and everything, race is used to justify bad behavior, and race is used to divide America by Democrats. Is Rush behind this?
Now that is a teaching moment by friends.
The United States should build our own version of the Turkinsh Prison, and put every elitist snob who has ever told a cop “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?” in it for a year.
His little charity sounds about as incestuous as morgan freeman and his grandaughter.
Someone should also ask Gates if he owns any Long D*ng Silver videos, or if he's ever found funny fibers on his Coca-Cola cans.
ROFLMAO.
Little Richard wrote their theme song too.
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