Skip Gates, Please Sit Down

Perhaps this is the reason why the black cop who participated in the arrest supported the arrest and not Dr. Gates. As a generality, cops are none too happy with the elitist college and university culture, both students and faculty.

“Which brings me to Skip Gates. He isn’t outraged because he feels he was the victim of racial profiling by the police (that dubious honor goes to his foolish neighbor) [in fact, the woman who called the police is not a neighbor, but works nearby].”

This enrages me everything I see or hear it. The neighbor/nearby worker did the right thing. Do these people, yes I said these people, not understand that their actions are what causes whites and other races to detract from them. If I saw two black men trying to force open a door on a house nearby, I’d call the police, too!!! They never talk about what they do wrong, it’s always someone else is targeting them unfairly. You notice they never complain about “racial profiling” when the cops are looking for a white guy after a slew of “serial” murders even though blacks do their own fair share of serial murders these days? Until THEY get their men under control and their crimes plummets - which is also most crime, all blacks will be viewed with suspicion and resentment and rightfully so!!! If they want to defend the guilty, then the blowback will continue to be painful.

Gates is not upset about this incident. He is thrilled. I bet he has been hoping for years that something like this would happen. Now he has a vehicle to promote himself and his views in the broader culture, instead of remaining a cult deity to the few PBS viewers hang on his every word.

The Salon contributor of this article, like Prof. Gates, presumes too much authority. Rather than one man explaining the other, they are both seen here as self-righteous, overeducated race baiters. They would be surprised how much lip service and how little empathy their colleagues hold for them.

This is essentially the original take I had.

Mr. Gates was likely reacting from the standpoint that he didn’t like an ignorant, uppity white boy not knowing he was a “preeminent” black scholar. But hey, those blacks at the Chicago cemetery didn’t seem to know who Emmit Till was. They must have missed black history month. They get a pass for not knowing black history. Officer Crowley is crucified for not knowing he was standing in the presence of black greatness.

Mr. Gates lives in a elitist enclave of whites. And where did he run off to after this incident? His vacation home in the white elitist enclave of Martha’s Vineyard.

And talk about racist prejudice:

“I was thinking, this is ridiculous, but I’m going to show him my I.D., and this guy is going to get out of my house,” said Gates. “This guy had this whole narrative in his head. Black guy breaking and entering.”

Apparently Mr. Gates can look at a white man and read the ‘narrative’ in his mind. Is not not prejudice? Is that not a stereotype? Is that not judging someone as a group and not an individual? Is that not judging someone on the color of their skin?

By the way, when did Henry Louis Gates Jr. become ‘Skip’? I missed that memo.

McWhorter: Decoding the Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrest

http://tinyurl.com/mvb6gf

I read earlier today on a CNN blog that the woman who reported the door breaking incident couldn’t have known the race of the men she was calling about because of the distance and the darkness. No one was profiling. Perhaps the professor ought to get to know his neighbors?

“He isn’t outraged because he feels he was the victim of racial profiling by the police (that dubious honor goes to his foolish neighbor) [in fact, the woman who called the police is not a neighbor, but works nearby].””

How is this racial profiling? If two stange men of any race, white or black, were attempting to kick in a door of a home, any normal neighborhood reaction would be to call the police as this is suspicious.

The real question is would the cops demand ID from a white male? Of course they would. True story. I have an uncommon name. While at work one day,a process server shows up at my house and served my wife with a paternatity notice. Of course it is for another man with the same name. I’ve been put over by the police for outstanding warrants. I have been harrassed by bill collectors. I have resolved all this by remaining calm and acted in a civilized manner. Gates could have assumed that the cop was doing his job and behaved in a civil manner; 15 minutes, the cop would have been on his way.

If this ends badly for the police department, and it could very well do so, it may make other career LEOs think twice or more before arresting a black for ANYTHING! their pay don’t change if they arrest one or a thousand people (not that I know of anyway, any police officers to say one way or the other)

Oh boy, can these people crank it out.

The malfeasance of the officer involved is breezily assumed, worthy of only a passing mention (very clever), and then the debate is which of two white deficiencies was mainly at work, white racism, or (author’s choice) “ivy leaguism,” with which poor Dr. Gates had allowed himself to become tainted.

A rewrite:

“Dr. Gates, an arrogant member of a typically arrogant group, moved into the ivy league where he felt his status gave him an additional reason to be an arrogant snot.”

Isn’t that better, salon.com?

its pretty basic, someone calls cops, cops find someone in house, cops arent going to leave an unidentified man in a house, cops ask for ID.

For a college prof. not to be able to hold such basic logic is mind bending.

I think everybody misses the fact that this professor is an AA hire and would not even have been able to get a degree or hired by Harvard if it weren’t for the grace of whites who have stupidly decided to pass these people, give them certification and jobs when they aren’t qualified.

When the cop asked him to go outside, Gates responded by saying, “Yo mama.” Quite an intellectual, isn’t he? He’s no more than ghetto trash.

The words “prominent,” “scholar,” learned man,” all are used to describe this ghetto-talking, race baiting slouch who has shown his gratitude for his many freebies by denouncing whites every chance he gets and trying to whip black mobs into a frenzy, hoping they’ll riot in his support.

The topic of conversation on this entire situation should be about this racist black’s behavior and uncalled for cries of racism, not whether or not his lying cries of racism are true. The entire incident makes it plain he’s just another black cry baby that will scream racism no matter what the situation.

Notice that EVERY talking black head on T.V. supported this low life. This is more unequivocal proof that blacks and whites, or blacks and anybody else, will never be able to live together.

These people belong in their own society where their stupidity can only sink themselves, not us with them.

I’m glad the incident came up, however, because it has given naive whites just one more example of black bias that extends throughout 99% of the community.

I never understood why McWhorter is considered a conservative. He supported the Jena 6 racists who almost beat a white kid to death, voted for Obama and now assumes that the white cop and the white woman who called the cops are in the wrong and Gates is merely elitist.

The guy is a racist who is maybe 1-2 steps to the right of Gates, Jackson and the rest of his fellow black racists.

“It may make other officers think twice before arresting a black for ANYTHING!
Their pay doesn’t change if they arrest one or a thousand people …”
SKIP
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In my own PD (in a major metropolis), sergeants don’t make arrests. Cops do. Nor do sergeants take radio runs — that’s what cops are for. As ranking officers, sergeants are there to supervise their officers. Thus, Sgt. Crowley would normally have handed this arrest to a cop, but not gotten directly involved himself.

I realize that Cambridge is a much smaller city than mine, with possibly different procedures; and probably they coddle the Harvard crowd who expect (and demand) special treatment.

Still, I note that there were at least 4 officers present (in the picture), including at least two (!) sergeants. This response indicates to me that they already sensed they were dealing with a difficult case, or a celebrity with big-time connections (as Gates bragged), which threatened to become an “incident” —- that, as well as the fact that a sergeant handled the matter personally and took the arrest himself. In my PD this would not be normal procedure. So, it would appear that Gates was already getting special treatment. (And, in fact, from someone who was considered an expert at inter-racial relations and was a teacher in this field!)

This event was the pinnacle of “The Distinguished Black Professor’s” life. He now has had his very own run-in with the racist white-devil cops. You know that every single lecture he gives to his classes, for the rest of his life, will reference this incident. I wouldn’t be surprised if he turns his couple of hours in the holding tank into a book.

I have been stoped by the police a few times. I just do as they say. Give them my id, answer their question….etc. They soon understand they got the wrong guy, and leave. Instead of working against them, occupy their time. They may have to take me to the station, lock me in. A lot of unnecessary work and wasted time.
In the meanwhile the real rascal goes free!
Congratulation.

Selfishness is amazing.

There should be a law that criminalize a person or group claiming and shouting racism. Even more so if it is found to be a false claim. It shoud be the same as a person making a fake “bomb” call or threat… Although it is actually worse as in the case of a racism cry, true or false, the lives, property and safety of all whites in the vicinity and even elsewhere, are endangered!

The racism shouters are out to incite violence against whites and if it is a false claim it is also purgery!
The so-called “poor black victims” of racism and the malicious white liberals supporting them, are nothing else than individuals and groups trying their best to organize an undeserved advantage for themselves and could not care less if other inocent people are attacked verbally or physically because of their selfish and opportunistic falshoods and the resultant actions and abuses!

Both Obama and the fake racism caller Gates, should be sued for compensation running into millions.

I hope this white cop has the balls, common sense and foresight to force realism via the courts unto all blacks and unto all those malicious race traitor white liberals!

As the white hating Obama lifted his mask a little and you white Americans could peek in there for a moment, I hope you recognized “mr death of white America”, at last. Use his indiscretion to unmask him for what he is! Support this white cop and do it now!

Let it be so!

“Sure, we get pissed, knowing we’re getting hassled because we’re black, but the real indignation comes from being hassled as members of an elite group. How dare you hassle me? I go to school here. I go to work here.”

I assume he’s talking about cops hassling him. If his fellow academics/students/staff give him a hard time, you can bet it’s based on his personality, & professionalism or lack thereof, & not on race. Some of the black academics where I work carry a chip the size of a redwood tree on their shoulders; others you simply learn to steer away from for practical reasons. They can be as indignant as they want, as long as I don’t have to listen.

The author of this article is simply another Black With Attitude (BWA). Just like the professor, he thinks whitey is just around the corner waitin’ to take him down. I just don’t get it. Everything in the world handed to them wrapped in pretty paper…and still they find something to whine about. Wow.

The author is another race baiter. For the life of me I wish this overeducated priveleged snob would actually define “racism” and how he is affected by “racism.” We dig deep here we will I believe come to understand that “racism” to blacks is a metaphysical reaction to being around whites and not being white themselves. When we whites are targeted for the racist canard we instinctually start thinking of police dogs and water cannons. AR studies race differences so this view of what “racism” is might make a good study in itself. There never seems to be an end of stories of blacks and their superstitous beliefs and I think in most instances this racism charge is another phony religion.

“…the woman who reported the door breaking incident couldn’t have known the race of the men she was calling about because of the distance and the darkness.”

Minor point: This incident occurred at quarter to one in the afternoon. In other words, the broadest of daylight. Hence the nice photos. You can check the on-line police report to confirm.

I’m still waiting to hear what makes Prof. Gates so famous as a scholar. What did he do? Einstein did relativity, Watson and Crick discovered the shape of DNA, Newton explained gravity, so what has Gates done?

“You’re smart enough to understand that race and racism are a reality you deal with on a daily basis…”

“Sure, we get pissed, knowing we’re getting hassled because we’re black…”

Give me a break! At what Ivy League university does this happen? If you ask me, this is just typical black behavior of being quick to take offense and having a chip on their shoulder, most definitely because they they well know that their success is completely dependent on the good graces of white people, the people they hate so much.

“You’re smart enough to understand that race and racism are a reality you deal with on a daily basis, but you also know that your university ID sets you apart.”

This entire essay is filled with thoughts that appear to come from a high school kid. It’s just plain dumb. The man is definitely not a thinker. But, then again, how could he be? He’s black and has some serious problems with abstract thinking and drawing logical conclusions.

“He does not see those million men as kin and he doesn’t, by and large, give a damn about those guys.” (Referring to one million blacks in prison.)

He’s stupidly telling his readers that all blacks should regard each other as kin, not realizing that he’s giving us an example of his racism, the same kind that whites have to deal with on a daily basis. How unintelligent. And humorous too, because he makes the case that AA certification is no more than a worthless piece of paper.

Blacks DO NOT deal with racism and oppression on a daily basis. They deal with freebies and privileges on a daily basis.
They scream racism in order to justify their incompetence and lack of intelligence that keeps them from earning success on their own. It’s far more soothing to their egos to pretend that their many failures are whitey’s fault.

Every race in America outperforms them. That’s the one big elephant in the room nobody seems to notice or wants to talk about.

If I were a black professional I would be embarrassed how Gates behaved. If a black professor like him, who is so eminent and educated, can act like this(a ghetto thug), what does that say about the average black and their mentality. No wonder blacks have such a bad image around the world. Don Lemon, a black reporter for CNN, interviewed a black female officer from Sgt. Crowley’s department. She stated she voted for Obama, but would never vote for him again.

There are plenty of good posts here especially the one by “q” who hit the nail right on the head. So let me interject a different aspect of this whole situation. This event is so insignificant that it should have barely made the news in a local paper. However the liberal propaganda media gets their little paws on it and blows it all out of proportion on a nationwide basis by using “the race card” in an effort to keep the racial hatred going between blacks and whites and then the right wing media has to get involved in order to defend the cops. But this time it backfired, Obama as clueless as usual got all caught up in the propaganda and made a total fool out of himself. Keep up the good work liberal media, your doing a great job!

“I never understood why McWhorter is considered a conservative.”

I first learned about McWhorter when he was on c-span promoting a book about black social pathology to a bookstore full of blacks. He told them, in no uncertain terms, that they were responsible for how they acted and how they were perceived. The blacks crucified him.

But you’re right. He has seemed to have moved to the side of making excuses for blacks. Listening to him and reading his work, he can be all over the issue. He now seems to be saying, ‘yes blacks have their issues but white people have to be aware, if not sensitive to black matters’. He lost a lot of his fire from the first time I saw him speak.

I’ve found out along time ago that even the ‘good’ blacks will turn on you and get ghetto once they find out that you’re not one of the ‘good’ White folks and are on to their game.

The sooner everyone realizes the hatred that blacks have for whites the sooner they will understand the actions and reactions of Gates and Obama. If you have only a few drops of African blood you can escape the hatred and join in for special privileges. Soledad O’Brien is a good example of this, she has no African features and maybe one sixteen of African blood but claims full rights and privileges.

What could be more hypocritical and foolish than a black Harvard professor whining about the racial profiling of blacks while he is at the very same time engaged in the racial profiling of a white police officer? If Harvard thought Cornel West was an embarrassment, what are they thinking now about Gates?

I heard/ read a figure the other day stating that 20,000,000 or more Whites have died at the hands of blacks over the last 50-60 years in the US. I found that astounding. That’s almost as many people as Russia lost during WWII. Is there any truth to it? I know I didn’t dream that but I can’t remember where I read/ heard it.
I know that Black on White crime is rampant but that figure sound too high to be true

“Soledad O’Brien is a good example of this, she has no African features and maybe one 16th African blood but claims full rights and privileges.” — Betty

Soledad O’Brian amazes me that she claims to be “black”. She has an Irish mother and a Puerto Rican psysician father. I was unaware there was any African blood there at all.

With some of these people it is indeed a racket. They’re just cashing in, helping themselves to the benefits because they’re there. It’s called “making hay while the sun shines”.

All the above. I just want to clarify; some of the posts refer to “Black professionals”. Actually, what we have with Gates and the NWA who wrote the piece, are “Professional Blacks”. These are guys who are Ivy League Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton. Just look better, dress more upper middle class. But part of the same race hustler/affirmative action/Diversity machine.
I have no problem with Black professionals (the police sergeant involved here, say). It is just the Gates type that annoys me; without AA, this guy would probably be a low level manager at a McDonalds or something, supervising Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

11 — Anonymous wrote at 9:15 PM on July 24:
“its pretty basic, someone calls cops, cops find someone in house, cops arent going to leave an unidentified man in a house, cops ask for ID.

For a college prof. not to be able to hold such basic logic is mind bending.”

You’re right. But this is a shining example of the rewards of AA hiring.
That being said, the author who is a self-proclaimed Ivy Leaguer
writes
“Check out his articles — you can definitely go to the Root — the Web site he is editor in chief of — if you want to see a repository for the whole masturbatory display.”
“Editor in chief of..” Doesn’t he know that a preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentences with?
“Mastubatory display” ? They are incapable of having a thought that doesn’t involve their shlangs.

All of Black America speaks as one on this issue: we are victims. Obama changes nothing. Not only Obama, but Massachusetts has a Black Governor and Cambridge a Black Mayor. Yet still they pull the victim card. When they talk about equality it’s obvious they are only considering the goodies, never the duties-the duties of pulling their weight and giving up the victim card. No, they just don’t have the moral gravitas to be part of a great civilization, even the few who have the requisite intellect.

When you see stories like this, take a moment and imagine
what this country would be like if we never had slavery!
Blacks are nothing but trouble wherever they are. Gates
reportedly is an expert on African lit. Must be a real
make-believe task since they never had a written language
until the white man came along.
ACE2X

What ethnicity actually invented and thrives on “trash talk.” Oh, that’s right.

The major problem blacks suffer from is there “mouth.” Knowing when to rant and rave and when not to rant and rave. I was taught at an early age to never talk back to an officer because that club or flashlight would bust my lips (we are a long line of white Euro people).

Only a fool would challenge the cop. Oh, there it is again. Fools.

So betty, what’s your point? Soledad O’Brien is still a Bantu, even though she has an Irish name!

In their early years, the Chicago Bulls had a guard, McCoy McLemore, who was a Bantu despite his Irish-sounding name.

There has been quite a lot of emphasis on the fact that that Gates character works as a Harvard professor, right?

Well, I live in a place (province of Québec, Canada) where there is no such thing as Affirmative Action for Blacks in our school system (that I know of, anyway); and I have personnally come to the conclusion, that in a the case of a black person, in the U.S., an Ivy League diploma or status as a professor in one of those prestigious universities, simply proves absolutely nothing!

I think it’s true: we’re talking about Blacks who get admitted to such universities, while they wouldn’t have one chance in a zillion were it not for their skin color!

Those same black people who unfairly got admitted to such institutions, get diplomas because white teachers are afraid that if they sink them, they will be sued.

And then, those «token» Ivy League graduates get jobs through Affirmative Action (AGAIN!), and later prove themselves to be just mediocre in their occupation… Think Michelle Obama, or Sonia Sotomayor, or… Mister Affirmative Action himself, your new president, Barack Hussein Obama; the man who can’t pronounce more than two consecutive words without his teleprompter!

I have no respect whatsoever for those Ivy League Blacks. None!

as a middle aged, white, fat guy, i know that anytime i deal with a member of law enforcement, if i mouth off to them and curse their mothers, i am going to jail.
That is life in the 21st century no matter what race you are.

Soledad O’Brien is black. Her mother is black Cuban and her father is an Australian of Irish descent. She is married to a white man and her children are black.

32 — Anonymous wrote at 9:59 AM on July 26:
“Soledad O’Brien is a good example of this, she has no African features and maybe one 16th African blood but claims full rights and privileges.” — Betty

“Soledad O’Brian amazes me that she claims to be “black”. She has an Irish mother and a Puerto Rican psysician father. I was unaware there was any African blood there at all.”

She’s jumping on the bandwagon. She’s taking out some insurance for the future when they “come” for the Caucasians. The Nazis conducted extensive investigations in order to ascertain the “purity” of blood of each person holding any position of authority. Many Puerto Ricans have some African heritage.

I also read that the woman reporting the incident was unable to see what race they were because of distance…and that she was acting out of concern because there had been a series of break-in’s in that neighborhood recently.

Sounds like a good neighbor to me.

‘Prince’ Barry owes the officer an apology…and so does the Professor. The fact that none is forthcoming is the reason I call his Nibs very disdainfully ‘Prince Barry’.

btw, note to Prince Barry: Don’t get to comfy in that house up there Prince Barry…you are there with just a 4 yr lease. We can’t wait till your OUT.

Despite the atrocious levels of black crime, that figure of 20 million whites who “have died at the hands of blacks” during the past half century, does seem suspiciously high. I too would question it.

I suggest that perhaps what you recall reading was the number of whites who have suffered ANY types of crimes “at the hands of blacks” during that period. That figure would seem to make much more sense. I would have no trouble accepting that.

20 — Simmons wrote at 12:43 PM on July 25:
“The author is another race baiter. For the life of me I wish this overeducated priveleged snob would actually define “racism” and how he is affected by “racism.”

Simmons,
I guarantee you that he is priveleged and a snob but
“overeducated”? No way.

“I have no respect whatsoever for those Ivy League Blacks. None!”

Give me a black from ‘da hood’ any day over an Ivy league black. The black from the hood may be more likely to rob you, but he will not hate whitey nearly as much as an indoctrinated Ivy League black who simultaneously gets racial preference at every turn and blames whites for any perceived troubles or shortcomings in his/her life.

“I heard/ read a figure the other day stating that 20,000,000 or more Whites have died at the hands of blacks over the last 50-60 years in the US. I found that astounding. That’s almost as many people as Russia lost during WWII. Is there any truth to it?”

No.

The recent figure is roughly 600 a year over the last 20 years. Before civil rights and during the time in which the US population was smaller it was obviously less. I would say about 30,000 or so during that time, which is probably double of the number of blacks who have been killed by whites.

“Soledad O’Brien is black. Her mother is black Cuban and her father is an Australian of Irish descent. She is married to a white man and her children are black.”

Now that’s a white man after my own heart. 1/8 black = black. Same thing with you “white” men who marry Asians; may as well name your kids Tohaka and Chung-Li as far as I am concerned!

I’ve found educated, financially successful blacks to be the most complaining, hateful, and racist against whites. They are so insecure that they have to prove they are ‘smarter’ and ‘better’ than “them racist white folk”

In the world of Dr. Henry Lewis Gates, only whites can be racist and blacks are their eternal victims. This should be a wake-up call for all brainwashed whites whose beliefs are identical to Dr. Gates. Alas, I fear the academic somnambulists are still in their deep diversity slumber.