A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.I think this fellow needs to attend Professor Gates' lectures on racism because he's not seeing racist hobgoblins behind every tree, shrub and lamp post as he should be. They're out there, you know. In fact, there's one right behind you now! Quick, look! Oooh - he got away. But he was there, just the same. With some multicultural sensitivity training, you'll soon be seeing them, too.
Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been."
Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
I Guess This Guy Was A Racist, Too
Dig this.
KT, at the end of the day and what I am left with is this: our first President of color in his first opportunity to address a racial matter, off script and without the aid of TOTUS... absolutely FUBARs it.
ReplyDeleteTo me it looked like he fell back on his University cultural training and immediately blamed racism.
ReplyDeleteConnecticut Yankee found a story from '08 that mentions Prof. Gates has a charity that seems to be illegal-- maybe he thought there was some other reason for the cops to be there?
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