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Dr.
Laurie Roth
Who Is the Real Racist in the Professor Gates Story?
July 30, 2009
We’ve all heard the endless drum roll about how horrid the Cambridge Cop
James Crowley was to Black, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.
According to Gates, Crowley was a typical white guy with a power
complex, exercising racial profiling when he came to his home in
response to a 911 call from a concerned neighbor.
According to witnesses who heard it all, 911 records and the report of
Officer Crowley, Professor Gates started verbally attacking Crowley,
saying he was racially profiling and daring Crowley to arrest him. In
fact, Crowley had simply asked him to come outside and talk. According
to the factual record of the event and witnesses, the only verbal abuse
came from Gates toward officer Crowley, not the other way around. This
event began when a concerned neighbor called 911 after seeing two men
struggling to enter the house that she didn’t recognize, with luggage.
She wasn’t sure if it was the owner so she wanted to report it in case
there was trouble.
Trying to determine just what was going on and if the home was safe, it
was entirely appropriate for Crowley to ask Gates to walk outside and
ask him a few questions no matter what he said about living in the home.
Even people with an IQ below plant life understand that when a cop is
investigating something or stops you, you don’t start talking back or
ignore an order.
To add drama to this already distorted media event, Crowley wasn’t just
another cop. He was the Cop who trains other police officers in racial
sensitivity. He was known and honored for his teaching and insight on
the racial issue. According to his record there has never been any act
of racism with Crowley, but quite the opposite.
Never mind the documented facts of the case. Why be confused by the
facts? President Obama immediately said that Officer Crowley acted
“stupidly.” Obama knew it must have been racism and racial profiling
because the professor was, coincidentally, Obama’s friend. Never mind
that the facts proved the opposite and showed that the professor was the
real racist; a poor citizen who couldn’t even follow simple, calm
instructions given to him by a law enforcement officer.
Nobody wants to see racism rear its ugly head. I would be the first
person to shred Officer Crowley if there was any sign at all of racism.
But there was not! In fact, racism can be implied of Professor Gates
after viewing a YouTube video where he goes on an N-word rant against
Whites. Then there is our Progressive President, who wouldn’t dream of
stooping to racism, except for a few interesting quotes from his own
books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope.
Let us examine some words of wisdom and racial hope from the enlightened
one from his books.
From Dreams of My Father:
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when
I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to
whites.”
Oh horror of horrors...just think of some whites liking you! Here are a
few more classic and inspired quotes from Dreams of My Father:
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and
animosity against my mother’s race.”
“There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of
himself, maybe...and white.”
“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your
loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
“I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my
own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that
I’d packed all these attributes I sought in myself”
A final juicy morsel of enlightenment and change: A special quote from
Obama from his other book, Audacity of Hope:
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an
ugly direction.”
It is so incredibly clear. It is not surprising that Professor Henry
Louis Gates Jr., racist and elitist that he is, would be a friend with
President Obama.
I do believe the media, President Obama and Professor Gates owe Officer
James Crowley a huge apology and retraction! |
