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Harvard Professor To Gates: You’re The Racial Profiler
Harvard Professor Ruth Wisse isn’t buying the Gates narrative that he was racially profiled by the Cambridge Police. She rips into him beautifully in the Harvard Crimson.
Here’s a little taste:
…But thereafter your case becomes disturbing, and while the president’s unwise comments turned a local episode into a national referendum, it’s the local issue that troubles me. Like you, I live in Cambridge, commonly known as the "People’s Republic of Cambridge" for its left-leaning political correctness. Our congressional district has not sent a Republican to Washington since 1955. Not surprisingly, the officers who came to your door—a rainbow of black, Hispanic, and white—were led by a man hand-picked to provide training on the avoidance of bias in policing. To accuse the Cambridge police of racial profiling, as you did, is about as credible as charging Barack Obama with favoring Republicans.
What puzzles me most in the report of your actions—or reactions—on July 16 is why you would have chosen, as I’ve heard you put it elsewhere, to "talk Black" to Officer Crowley instead of "talking White" as you so eloquently and regularly do? These are distinctions I’ve heard you expound—how educated African Americans switch their register of speech depending on what part of themselves they want to get across. Many of us do something similar inside and outside our particular communities, but you make it sound like a sport that is also for African Americans a tool of survival. So why didn’t you address the policemen as fellow Cantabrigians? What was that "yo’ mama" talk instead of saying simply, in the same register your interlocutor was using, "Look, officer, I’m sorry for your trouble. Thanks for checking on my house when you thought I was being burgled, but this is my home, and if you give me a minute, I’ll find the piece of mail or license that proves it to you." It seems it wasn’t the policeman doing the profiling, it was you. You played him for a racist cop and treated him disrespectfully. Had you truly feared bias, you would surely have behaved in a more controlled, rather than a less controlled, way.
It only gets better from there and I highly recommend everyone read the entire piece — it’s fantastic.
Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Harvard.
(hat tip Hot Air)
Video: Giuliani On Gates-Gate
(hat tip Breitbart TV)
Linda Chavez: No More Racial Sell-Outs
Linda Chavez has a great piece today at Townhall.com about the sick tradition of leftist minorities labeling non-leftist minorities as “traitors” or “Uncle-Tom’s” or “sell-outs.”
Chavez happens to be a conservative Latina who was predictably attacked by some Latinos for her criticism of Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
The black cop who assisted Sgt. Crowley in the now infamous arrest of Obama’s buddy Skip Gates says he’s been called an “Uncle Tom” because of his support for a white policeman.
The same people who decry racism at every turn think nothing of attacking people of color who disagree with them.
I think it’s pretty damn racist to assume that everyone who shares your skin color thinks exactly alike. If you’re Hispanic or Black you obviously hate the Police and vote Democrat — those are the rules.
Fortunately, that’s not the case. For every racist black professor like Gates who profits from stoking racial tension, there’s a black man like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who believes in ending racial discrimination in all its forms and moving the country forward.
Video: McCotter Talks Obama Apology On Hardball
Here’s Rep. Thaddeus McCotter on Hardball defending his House resolution demanding an apology from Barack Obama over Gates-Gate.
As far as Matthews is concerned the only thing Barry needs to apologize for is being too damn awesome.
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Unfortunately for sycophants like Matthews, McCotter’s logic is irrefutable.
(hat tip Breitbart TV)
911 Tape Shows Caller Didn’t Mention Gates’s Race
Listen to the 911 call from the woman who alerted the Police to a possible burglary in progress at professor Gates’s home. It was this call that prompted the evil, racist Sgt. Crowley to investigate. The caller never even mentions race, which pretty well destroys the Obama-Gates narrative about ‘racial-profiling.’
Video: Professor Henry Gates Trashes Clarence Thomas and Newt Gingrich
Take a look at this 1996 video of Obama’s good friend Henry Gates:
Is is really that difficult to imagine an elitist race-hustling scumbag like Gates berating that policeman? This guy has made a living stoking racial tension and playing the perpetual black victim.
The ironic thing is that this guy doesn’t have the first damn thing in common with inner city blacks. He loves to wax poetic about his blackness and black issues, but he only does it from the comfort of his ivory towers.
(hat tip Gateway Pundit)
Obama Semi-Apologizes For Inflaming Gates-Gate
After realizing his phony attempt to gin up a racial controversy had backfired, President Obama tried to walk back his criticism of the Cambridge Police Department today.
The president didn’t have the stones to admit that he behaved “stupidly” by commenting on a case he didn’t know the first damn thing about.
He probably should have dug a little deeper and actually read the police report or spoken with the black and Latino officers who were with Sgt. Crowley at the time of the arrest.
Obama created a phony racial controversy where none existed except in the mind of a race hustling black professor from Harvard.
Obama let his Rev. Wright hang out yesterday and now he’s trying to put him away again.
