Again… all he had to do was say, “I live here officer, here’s my ID.” He was in control of the whole situation. But he chose to use the race card and create an unfortunate incident for the police officer who was doing his job. And again I say Gates owes the officer and the whole country an apology.

It took a little while but the conservatives finally got to use racial fears against Obama. You didn’t want to bring it up during the election because it might reveal your inner racists but now you see a chance to make race an issue.

We knew you couldn’t resist. I guess in the absence of another 9/11 that you’ve been praying for, this will have to do.

It was pretty clear up front that the police officer wasn’t the racist in this altercation. Professor Gates is a racist.

This guy just can’t let it go.

No he can’t.
And the more that becomes known about him, the more embarrassing this is becoming for him, his cause, and Obama since he became personally involved.
He is a two bit race hustler.

Gates is a racial profiler; this statement proves that.

Yeah DINO, remember when Obama was calling himself a Halfrican? Or when he was saying he was more white than black?

How soon we forget.

Makes it possible for them to trot out the “scary black man” thing.

I’ll grant that the cop may not have been entirely in the right, but to jump to the conclusion that the cop was being motivated by race is entirely unfair.

I keep seeing this. Am I missing something? What is wrong with arresting someone for creating a public disturbance?

I read that Gates was “horrified” to find out that he is actually 57% white.
I suppose that meant he could only get 43% Reparations.

“scary black man” thing.

Yeah, I am beginning to feel it.
Just saw a picture of Michael Jackson.

The cons were DYING to use race. This Gates thing was a gift from their god.

WRONG! It was a gift from Professor Gates and Barack Obama. And if both of them had simply kept their mouths shut, we’d be talking about something other than black racism, and the fact that according to the liberal credo, whites are supposed to feel guilty.

Geoguy…lol

It looks to me that gates is the one sitting in judgement over the “Whitey”.

I guess there is no point fighting this in court. It will just get bumped up to the supreme court and by then Sotomayor will be in and she will use her wise latina judgement to find the officer to be a racist.

The cons were DYING to use race. This Gates thing was a gift from their god.

I didn’t know there was a different GOD for Cons and the hate filled Liberal left wing of the US.

Rob is lying again, and misrepresenting truth.

Let’s parse this puppy!!

Rob says:

This guy [Gates] just can’t let it go.

That is a lie! According to this article, when Gates was asked about this case on Thursday, he replied: “I have no further comments to make about the issue, I’m tired”.

So Rob is lying and it turns our Rob is the only one who can’t let go of playing the race card.

Reached Thursday by telephone, Gates told The Associated Press he had no further comments to make about the incident, in which he was suspected of breaking into a house _ his own _ and then charged with disorderly conduct when he raged at a police officer.

“I’m tired,” he said.[/quote]

Not only that, but Rob left this part out of the story as well, which is pretty significant.

Gates and the others were circled by a white mob. The owner screamed at the black students to leave, slamming one of them against the wall. The club was shut down, but Gates had been marked: West Virginia police, he would write in his memoir, placed him on a list of those who might be detained should race riots break out during election time.

Sound familiar?????

Now, let’s find something Crowley said when he was young, so we can be equal.

Fair?

WRONG! It was a gift from Professor Gates and Barack Obama. And if both of them had simply kept their mouths shut, we’d be talking about something other than black racism,

But the media is not talking about black racism, because Gates showed none. They talking about racial profiling and that a white cop who abused his power on a black man.

Racist? Who knows?

Gates might be falsely claiming racial profiling, but who knows what the truth is on that? I’m willing to admit there was no racial profiling, but the black man was wronged by the white cop.

That is a reality of the situation.

People like Bat and Rob are just trying to flip the national debate. Hoping and clinging that hate will divide us.

Gates said,

“Allow me to prove myself.”

You did a damn good job of that, Asshole!

But the media is not talking about black racism, because Gates showed none.

What the media is talking about is irrelevant. I was referring to the discussions here, not those on CNN, MSNBC, or the editorial pages of the NYT and WaPO.

The mainstream media to which you refer are little more than cheerleaders for the Left in general and Obama in particular, and as such they are congenitally incapable of calling a spade a spade.

Da Wiz, you lie when you say Obama played the race card. He did not.

He claimed the police acted stupidly for arresting an old man, at his own home, after proving he only entered his own house.

And the police did act stupidly.

Obama talked about racial profiling, but did not say the police used it.

You are lying.

All you are doing Bat, is making a situation where people are going to unfairly criticize your side for things they didn’t say.

I stopped worrying about that long before you showed up here at SAB. You are undoubtedly one of the worst offenders in trying to put words they didn’t say into the mouths of those with whom you are incapable of winning an argument or a debate in any other manner.

Professor Gates made this a racial issue, as do so many other liberals every time the confrontation involves a white authority figure and a non-white contender. Obama has done nothing but compound the problem ever since he chose not to stop pontificating after first admitting that he didn’t have all the facts.

Of course you are, you are trying to create your own reality.

Instead of allowing someone else to do so for me??? You, for example? Don’t make me laugh. I rejected liberal pap and bluster before you were out of Pampers, kid.

Little H: It was Gates’ racial profiling of the police officer investigating a break-in that started all of this.
Obama just reinforced Gates’ racial profiling with some of his own.

Professor Gates made this a racial issue, as do so many other liberals every time the confrontation involves a white authority figure and a non-white contender.

But not many Liberals are standing up to say this is racial profiling. Few are. Many are just talking about how this was an unnecessary arrest. Myself included.

We can not ignore the reality that these types of things happen all the time, and with such attention on the issue, we have a chance to learn from it.

The lessons are that we can have blacks learn how better to respond to police and not cry racism and to cooperate and police should learn not arrest people for insulting their ego and to be more sensitive about issues such as this and also racial profiling.

Those are the lessons, regardless of what happened.

If the country can survive the inexperience, ineptitude, and indecisiveness of Obama, it can certainly survive my incisive objections.

You are not offering objections, you are offering and supporting accusations.

Look man, you guys ignore the fact that Gates and his friends were shoved up against a wall for going into a club of white people!!!

Then, you are upset that he used the word whitey????????

Give me a break.

Look man, you guys ignore the fact that Gates and his friends were shoved up against a wall for going into a club of white people!!!

Then, you are upset that he used the word whitey????????

Listen, kid, I don’t know how many times I have to say this before it registers in the effluent mush between your ears, but you are not remotely qualified to put words in my mouth. I haven’t offered any comments one way or another about Gates’ prior actions, or his use of the term “whitey” and frankly I don’t much care. Nor do I see it as pertinent to the current situation.

If you are going to criticize others for their “accusations” perhaps you should first insure that your own are worthy and supportable.

WND Exclusive FROM WND’S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Obama slammed as ‘racist’ at Jerusalem rally
‘This insolence will bring about the downfall of the American leadership’

Poor ole Obama; he can’t catch a break these days.
Send Gates over as a special Mideast envoy for racism. He should know.

“I’ll grant that the cop may not have been entirely in the right” Sorry, wrong, no one in this was wrong, except Prof Gates. And he and his buddy Barri are compounding that mistake. Exponentially.

What is not spoken in your reference of Gates’ words, is the time context from when he wrote them. As I was also there at that time, battling those same battles, I can say without equivocation, he was right — then. And it is still true today:

911 caller in Gates arrest never referred to ‘black suspects’

(CNN) — The woman who made the 911 call that led to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. never referred to black suspects when she called authorities for what she thought was a potential break-in. Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested after a break-in was reported to police. Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested after a break-in was reported to police.

Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, released the 911 phone call Monday. In the call, Lucia Whalen reports seeing “two larger men, one looked kind of Hispanic, but I’m not really sure, and the other one entered, and I didn’t see what he looked like at all.”

“I just saw it from a distance, and this older woman was worried, thinking somebody’s breaking in someone’s house and they’ve been barging in,” Whalen says. “She interrupted me, and that’s when I noticed. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it at all, to be honest with you. So I was just calling because she was a concerned neighbor, I guess.”

Attorney Wendy Murphy, who represents Whalen, also categorically rejected part of the police report that said Whalen talked with Sgt. James Crowley, the arresting officer, at the scene. “Let me be clear: She never had a conversation with Sgt. Crowley at the scene,” Murphy told CNN by phone. “And she never said to any police officer or to anybody ‘two black men.’ She never used the word ‘black.’ Period.”

MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/gates.arrest/

I haven’t offered any comments one way or another about Gates’ prior actions, or his use of the term “whitey” and frankly I don’t much care. Nor do I see it as pertinent to the current situation.

This entire post is supposed to be a character reference on Gates, which you jumped into and continued the line of attack about black racism.

Your actions speak for you, do not pretend that they do not.

I think Gates was wrong to make this about race as much as he is. Race “might” have something to do with how Crowley treated him, but you can’t prove that, nor was it truly evident, based on Crowley’s version of the story.

What we do know is that Gates was needlessly arrested. That has consequences that keep people down.

Crowley stirred up a hornets nest and you are blaming the loud mouthed victim. Lame!

Your actions speak for you, do not pretend that they do not.

Your zeal for counting coup is making you look ridiculous! Again! It is words, not actions, that are at issue here.

Look, if Gates was white, and not so prominent, no one would think there was anything untoward about the incident, or the arrest. The only reason anyone even knows about this incident, is because Gates is black and prominent. And the only reason it has become a racial issue is because Gates chose to make it one.

And the only reason it has become a racial issue is because Gates ( and Obama) chose to make it one.

Fixed that for you B1!