Oh yeah ..what they say is that white people arrest the blacks and convict them more than white people. Huh?? I agree with you and the above statements. They move into a neighborhood and property values go down because crime rates go up. They will destroy a community like a pack of rats eating thru everything. What I don`t understand is that the black leaders and churches should be preaching the importance of education,responsibilty,service to community,a honest days work, and MARRIAGE??? Instead they keep their own down. Welfare is a way of keeping blacks down..But they are too stupid to know that,instead they think getting free money is the way to go..So sad.

He was disturbing the peace.

Whose peace? His? In his own home? Pet the meth pipe down! I know Sarah “give me free” Palin shunned intelligence, but have Americans really dumbed down this much? A mind really is a terrible thing to waste!

Omega 3 would help your mental problem——sir !!!!!

Funny YOU SAY THAT.SUDDAM, AFTER ALL YOUR CAR SALESMAN’S NAME IS HUSSEIN, OR YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT.

Yea, yea, our President’s middle name is Hussein. Barack Hussein Obama! So, what’s your point? Aren’t GED classes free in your area?

you know guys, this fool fellow has picked the perfect name for himself. you just can’t fix stupid. they say, ” never argue with a fool as the onlookers will not be able to tell one from the other”.
It is best not to argue,
But if you do at all,
Never do so with a fool.
A fool can defeat all.

He does not care for the facts.
He does not know debate.
He’s a stranger to reason.
Logic he can negate.

In the end the fool will win,
His logic is so strong!
Decides what he does not like
And then it must be wrong!

It’s better to keep quiet
When challenged by a fool.
Else, to prove his own wisdom,
He will make you a tool.

It is hence my policy
To not respond to those
Who ask questions not to learn
But to be bellicose.

Foolproof..what are you so angry about? Do you think just because you are black that you dont have to behave in a way that is civilized? Its very clear you are intellegent and educated..so why are you so angry? If you act like you do on this site you will not hold a job for long. Or maybe you don`t want to do something more useful. Chill out dude.

Thank you for the employment advice. I wish I’d come in contact with you years ago; before I make equity Partner in my firm. FYI Dialogue and dissent isn’t anger.

The officer walked outside and then arrested him on the front porch after prof continued his loud talking. There was a large crowd witnessing it and in affect these were the people whose peace was disturbed.

Foolproof, you are an IDIOT!!!! Can you explain to me why we have black colleges, black groups where whites are not allowed, blacks being admitted to colleges ahead of all other Americans including whites, blacks receiving jobs ahead of whites even if they’re not qualified? I live in St. Louis and you don’t go into certain parts of the city especially if you’re white because you will be shot, you will be carjacked, raped, etc. These neighborhoods used to be white, safe and you could walk down the street with no worries at night. I know because I lived in those neighborhoods. When I was young, we left our doors open in the evening, we parked our cars in front of our houses with no worries and we as kids walked everywhere and didn’t come home until the streetlights came on. Now, the same streets are overrun with black gangs, children shooting adults, people shooting eachother from their cars with semi-automatic guns, drug houses, etc., etc. The houses I used to live near are now boarded up, burned or they have bars on the windows. My grandfather used to scrub the front steps of our four family flat and he was proud of his home. I won’t even go into that same neighborhood. I am not saying this because I hate black people, I am saying this because it’s the truth. If you want to hide your eyes and turn your back on reality, go ahead. I don’t care, I don’t live in these areas anymore, my children don’t attend substandard schools, my children aren’t in gangs, they don’t shoot people,
they don’t rape and carjack people, I don’t worry about them coming home at night and they’re not on the 6:00 news being hunted by the police because they hunted someone down and murdered them. Yes, I am white and damn proud of it! My family taught me values, pride about my life and responsibility. I know what it is to be a hard working citizen, that pays taxes, I’m not rich . My house is not huge but, I keep it clean and no one steals my car even if I leave it sitting in the driveway with the keys in it. Tell me, can you say the same thing about most black neighborhoods? I know you can’t and that, my friend, is a fact. You can deny it and blame it on white people or whatever else you want to blame it on but, it lies in the laps of black people, no one else. If I were you, I’d be ashamed to defend any nationality that has this many bad skeletons in their closets.

Hey Linda
“Can you explain to me why we have black colleges, black groups where whites are not allowed,”

Yes, I can explain. I’ll even use smaller words so that you can understand. Black people developed their own historically black schools, organizations and institutions as a direct result of not being allowed to participate in comparable white institutions. All of the entities that you question were developed as the direct result of white racism.

” blacks being admitted to colleges ahead of all other Americans including whites, blacks receiving jobs ahead of whites even if they’re not qualified?”

I can explain this too. Here’s a little affirmative action lesson for you. The purpose of affirmative action is to provide young people who may be educationally, culturally and/or economically deprived through no fault of their own, but who are otherwise qualified, the opportunity to prove themselves.
Affirmative action is necessary because children are often locked in under performing schools with few resources, poor quality teachers, outdated books, little, if any access to computers and technology, low level math and science courses, and few to no advanced placement courses. Students cannot compete on standardized tests in areas wherein they have had little or no exposure. It has nothing to do with the students qualifications!
Once a student is admitted to higher education institutions and professional schools, they sink or swim on their own merit! Students are randomly assigned exam numbers each grading period. Professors don’t even know whose exam they are grading. All the professor knows is that s/he is grading exam number 123.
I
f affirmative action admittees are less qualified, what accounts for the fact they often excel, distinguish themselves and do far better than their more advantaged peers? Ever notice how minorities excel in most academic and athletic undertakings? E.g., Business, Law, Medicine, Tennis, Golf, …? Perhaps the drive to work harder, be better and do better comes from the legacy of discrimination and the strong desire to make a fool of fools like you.

“I live in St. Louis and you don’t go into certain parts of the city especially if you’re white because you will be shot, you will be carjacked, raped, etc.”

So, does this mean that you did not live in St. Louis when the South Side Rapist, a white man and one of most notorious rapists in history, was raping and terrorizing women across the region day and night? Or what about the white man who shot up the St. Louis County Court House killing a woman and injuring a number of people including the judge? Or what about the 15year old white boy in St. Ann who went on a shooting rampage killing his mother and injuring his father? Or the married white cop who shot his cop girlfriend doing a drug induced stopper in St. Louis County? Or the white head of security of the Joyce Meyer’s Ministry accused of capitol murder for strangling his wife and two sons to be with his girlfriend? Wasn’t the man who abducted and held Shawn Hornbeck captive for years white? What about the young girl last seen ten years ago while baby sitting for the white man in her apartment complex? Or the white, unmarried, pregnant, Pentecostal woman who disappeared in Jefferson County when she was going to meet with her white baby daddy? Wasn’t the white St. Louis Chief of Police recently forced to resign as a result of wrongdoing and kickbacks while in office? Or the former Chief’s white, heroin addicted, daughter?
Aren’t the family courts in St. Louis City and County over run with abused and neglected white children who were victims of incest and sexually abuse by their white relatives and friends? Didn’t a white boy across the river just shake the life out of his infant daughter? Didn’t a white man in St. Louis County put a baby in a microwave oven and turn it on? Didn’t a white man in St. Charles County inject his young son with the HIV virus? Didn’t a white woman in St. Charles County cyber harass a mentally unstable 13 year old white girl to the point of contributing her suicide? Didn’t a white surgeon at Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City get caught in a hotel room smoking crack with a crack HO? Didn’t that same white surgeon kill an innocent person while driving under the influence? How many white criminals has Scott Rosenbloom represented for Embezzlement? Murder? Possession of drugs? How many houses and neighborhoods blow up in white areas in South St. Louis and Jefferson Counties from white people cooking Meth? Wasn’t Jeffrey Dahmer who killed and ate his victims white? What about Tim McVeigh? In fact most serial killers and serial rapists are white, aren’t they?

FoolPatrol, Tell me the reason that you are all over this coons nuts. It would be wise for you to come up for air. Im sick of hearing the race card. He is lucky I wasnt there! I would have split his AFRO-TURF with my mag-light. That would be for me just having to show up at his house. No telling how he would have looked by the time he got to the station.

You know, Footpatrol,I almost thought you were a little smart,But with DUMB ASS COMMENT,YOU NEED TO HAVE A BIG FAT FOOT UP YOUR DUMBASS, JUST YOUR pres. NOT MIND, HE showed All the stupid ass people,That cheated him in,I hope they love the CHANGE! You sound like you think the poor little black person, Should be able to rape,rob,steal,sell drugs,carjack,mug little old laides,& old weak black& white men of their pension, REAL BIG & BAD MEN UH, AND not be locked up because they came from a poor family or divorced parent’s, That is total BULL S—. You stupid little man.That is what’s wrong with these punk’s NOW!!.People like YOU.

Dickie,

Newsflash! Compared to you, I’m a lot smart.

“You sound like you think the poor little black person, Should be able to rape,rob,steal,sell drugs,carjack,mug little old laides,& old weak black& white men of their pension, REAL BIG & BAD MEN UH, AND not be locked up because they came from a poor family or divorced parent’s, That is total BULL S—.”

Instead of speculating about what strangers think, try learning to read and write. A mind is a terrible thing to waste!

Hey foolproof…its called civilized behavior,respect..you know human stuff. Which Obama and Gates proves no matter the education level..you just cant teach someone how to have grace and class.

I’m a white american and damn proud of it, but obama is not black and not an american, get it right !

What ever you say. One thing is for sure, President Obama is the President of the United States of America, isn’t he? Hail to the Chief!

There is a cure for liberalism foolpatrol. All you have to do is put a pistol under your chin and pull the trigger.

Why don’t you consider taking the cure. I don’t know you but I’m certain that I’m of more value to society.

You know FOOL, I did fall in your sick trap,You don’t have alife,So being the losser you are,You pulled me right in did”nt you, See it is crackheads like you that steals other people’s pc,So you can have a small little life for awhile, And decent people like me, Bring’s the real trash like you out in the open, I am sorry you don’t know who your daddy is,I guess you want to blame that on the white man!,Well our like soooo many other people that get’s discussed with parasites,like you. Our friendship must end,So I hope you WILL take BRIAN’
S advice,Realy you are wasting good air that some Hard working person could breath,By for now & forever you pathetic F—I–g GERM.

Yea, I know, Dickie, I know. Remember, free literacy classes in your area. Do yourself a favor, sign up!

Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard? How did you find this out when his school records have never been released?

Norm:

I see nothing wrong with what Rush said, particularly since its all true ! And who said Obama graduated from Harvard magn cum laude ? him ? we will never see this transcript to know one way or the other, just like we will never see his birth certificate

You never saw Clearance “Uncle Tom” Thomas’s transcript either. He asked his law school to not to release it. Are you questioning Clarence Tom’s graduation status and qualifications. FYI You don’t need to see the President’s transcript. Harvard’s official graduation records verify that our President graduated with Latin Honors. The Harvard Law Review in every law library in the United States contains Law Review Articles edited while the President was the editor or the Harvard Law Review. Anybody seen all of Bush’s military records including his DD-214? What abou Cheney and Rush’s deferrment requests? Sarah ‘give me free, it’s not my fault’ Palin’s many transcripts? Questioning their qualifications too?

eric/Ron

The Real Obama
Missing in action.
by Dean Barnett
11/06/2007 12:00:00 AM

IN MY PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL life, I had reason to be in contact with dozens of Barack Obama’s classmates at Harvard Law School. When he entered the presidential race, I dusted off my Rolodex and began making some calls to get the off-the-record skinny on the Democrats’ potential savior.

The results surprised me. Regardless of his classmates’ politics, they all said pretty much the same thing. They adored him. The only thing that varied was the intensity with which they adored him. Some spoke like they were eager to bear his children. And those were the guys. Others merely professed a profound fondness and respect for their former classmate.

Even more interesting was what wasn’t said. In dozens of conversations, not a single person said anything negative about him, and some were hardly the senator’s political fellow travelers. Also noteworthy is that virtually everyone seemed to know Obama. Usually people who have such a high profile on law school campuses have their detractors. Obama apparently didn’t.

This general attitude regarding Obama is even more remarkable given how well he performed at Harvard Law School. Obama graduated there in 1991. As many people know, he was president of the Harvard Law Review. This accomplishment, for those who know how such things work, was easy to minimize. Generally, you earned admission to the Law Review because of a distinguished academic performance in your first year. But there were some members who got on the Law Review because they wrote good essays as part of their application process and in spite of mediocre grades. A notable subset of this latter category was minority students; a politically correct institution, the Law Review cared about diversity in its ranks.

This was an unacknowledged form of affirmative action, but just because the Law Review didn’t acknowledge it didn’t mean law firms would follow suit. Membership on the Law Review basically meant that you were one of Harvard’s smartest students. Unless you got there for some reason other than your grades. In those cases, hiring authorities would usually dismiss your Law Review membership, although they would never admit to doing so.

The only reason I bring this barely relevant history up is to show what a stud of a law student Barack Obama was. He graduated Harvard magna cum laude. This was one honor you unquestionably had to earn. It’s a very impressive feat. Back in Obama’s days at Harvard, more than 50 percent of the class graduated cum laude, a fact that made graduating “with honors” a meaningless accomplishment. But graduating magna was a different kettle of fish. Barack Obama graduated right near the top of his law school class.

Oh and by the way fool, I would rather have Clarence Thomas in the White House than Ossama Hussein O’Bama, at least he wasn’t ashamed of his country to the point that he didn’t even want to salute the American Flag!

Thomas was from this country that is why he was not ashamed you have to be a part of a country to respect it’s flag. How can anyone but Ovomit say that he graduated with honors when you have your records sealed. That is like the records of King they sealed them to hide all of his communist ties ,illicit affairs and money he was stealing from the blacks. Ovomit has sealed his so that he can hide all of the proof that he is not an american and his ties with communist and the Builderberg group that are paying to over throw America. And where are men like James Earl Ray when you need them?

Skip
You are why people are ashamed to be American.

Perfect solution! I am not sure what will be then the target for ‘prof’ Gates jr’s claim and uproar?
If I am cop in his area, I would let the burglar do some damage for his house, then capture him… Bc crime is crime whenever and whoever is involved.

I have several black friends,But I know several WHITE & BLACK NIGGER’S, I was in high school,When all this crap started,Late 60′s, I am a white born American, Not a IRISH,SCOTTISH,AMERICAN, I was not born when slaves were sold to other country’s buy their own people.And brought to the Americas, And sold, I DON’T BELIEVE THERE IS ONE DAMN PERSON ALIVE TODAY, THAT REMEMBER’S SALVEREY, AND DON’T EVEN TRY TO TELL ME I AM FULL OF ANYTHING, BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIER. BUT that is not the issue, The issue is that I don’t care how smart you are, or what you teach,or where you live, In most cases, THE NIGGER WILL COME OUT!!, BLACK OR WHITE, I get so sick of hearing about me being done wrong because of my color,Yes the cops were wrong when they beat the crap out of ronney king, But the little baby,that had made the wrong turn,Did not deserve to be hit with a damn sign,Or that poor truck driver beat & hit with a brick,That disfiurged his face, Before king was beat, After he got out of his car & knock the first cop down,While his rider got out put his hands on the car, Nothing happen to him except put in handcuff’s, Would have given king the time of DAY,They new he was a coke head, He was trash, They just wanted to destory something,& STEAL, If the parent’s of young black people were not crack head’s theirselves, And teach their children, To get respect you have to give respect, All they teach is the white devil holds them down because they are black, Instead of, Helping them with school home work, They tell them to get the hell away from me go do something somewhere else, Instead of telling them they can be anything they want to be,And if a black person go’s to school to learn instead of being a punk,Thing being bad gets them somewhere, But you even got the trash lossers, Giveing Their ON KID’ DRUG’S, They are the lossers, I have taught, My children,Treat ALL PEOPLE THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE TREATED, But When you let your kid walk around with your ASS hanging out What & WHO? Do you thing is going to give you a job,Give you respect,And the person that let’s his child to that is a losser their self,That is as much DISRESECT,That could be to them & everybody else, MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD BE SO EMBARASSED, IF he seen how the people acted, He wanted ALL MEN BE TREATED EQUAL, NOT JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK!,Until the DAMN GOVERMENT OWN MEDIA STOP’S TRYING TO MAKE A RACE ISSUE OUT OF EVERY DAMN THING, AND BLACK PARENT’S START’S LOVEING THEIR CHILDREN, AND GIVE THEM POSSIVE THOUGHT’S INSTEAD OF FEELING SORRY FOR THEIRSELVE’S, THIS CRAP WILL NEVER STOP!! DAMN, When YOU tell your children the cop’s are your enemy, What in the hell do you thing,All THIS HIPPCRIT gate’s,Neededto do was just show his DAMN – BUT NO HE SHOWED HIS COLOR,If THIS RACIST is a TEACHER, I SURE IN HELL WOULD LET THIS THUG TEACH MY CHILD, HE JUST SHOWED THE WORLD HIS IS NO BETTER THAN TRASH!.

I am very ‘racist’. Yes, bc I have a Vietnamese wife. Anyway, I am maybe the only one who is ‘racist’ here? gates must be 1000000000000000000 m ore racist than me, but he is “affirmatively” racist? A racist, anti-White, anti-European policy enforced in America since 1964 (it’s called “affirmative action”) and I am labeled as ‘racist’. Maybe I am. Sorry, but I think Gates who got his education by brainwashed Whites who let him finish his carreer as a ‘professor’, should be more thankful to Whites who made him succesful. NOT bc he is a smrat person. Today, in “affirmative” racist America in educations, jobs, medical attention, social services and housing my “racism” is more affirmative then this evil government enforced pure, radical and useless, anti-American racism.
Blacks were made to be a “beloved” race and let me tell you – they have missed this great opportunity. They could use this once-a-lifetime opportunity to get education and improve their lives. They did NOT use it. In every aspects of life, they blame Whites on their misfortune and failures. Just look at their homneland: Africa. Evolution has been stopped there 100.000 years ago. There are tribes and tens of thousands of peopel who never seen a wheel, never met a clock… All other races – including Europeans and Asians – provided awsome tarditions and cultures and useful things for Mankind. We have composers, doctors, scientists, researchers and great investors made our lifes better. How many you can name from African soil? White people traveled to Africa and tried to help, civilize the population there, Nigeria and South Africa were made famous for their Western-style, but acceptable lifestyles for blacks. Succesful blacks in America should use their pride to return to their native homeland and support those people with investments, not spending their money and energy on promoting drug-abuse and crime.
Am I racist when I see the overwhelming tolerance showed for blacks in return as “racism”? Am I racist when I see the FBI’s ‘color of crime’ statistics, that black-on-White crime is about 880% higher than white-on-black crime, and almost 0 on white-on-black rapes?
I feel comfortable with labeled as ‘racist’. Racism is self-defense. And White, Euroepan people in this country already on the verge being outlawed, outnumbered and exterminated bc of the low birth rate…

Are there racist black people? YES. In fact I believe a much higher percentage of racist black people than white people. Is affirmative action racist? YES. You are correct when you state that black men do not educate themselves or provide for themselves on a whole, and then blame the white community for their own failures. Does this excuse your ignorant behavior? ABSOLUTELY NO!!! Does having a vietnamese wife change this fact?? NOT ONE BIT. We must work together to create the type of free society we are looking to have. I don’t care what color is committing crimes, they should be incarcerated. I don’t care by what color racism is embodied, it needs to end. Neither you or Rev. Wright have any place in the America I would like to live in.

There are no black people that are racist, They are haters, They hate white people, They will find out that obama is wrong but they will side with him just because they hate white people.

What a brilliant commentary, FarRightWinger! If I pondered for hours, I couldn’t have stated things more articulately! When I watch the evening news, every crime is committed by blacks. I’m not profiling – I’m just stating a fact. Thanks for speaking up for the silent majority.

You not racist because you bought a wife? Give me a break! Many racists men buy foreign born, mail order, wives, often of Asian descent. It’s a win win situation. The women sell themselves for a US sponsor and the men control the women who offer no dissent when they spue their racist BS.

I have to say that I agree with you. You have just been saying what others will not. They are just unwilling to look at the facts. Just like everyone is trying to side with the black guy that was disturbing the peace. It never fails that a black person throws race in the mix. I have never ever met one that didnt. I am so sick of hearing that shit, it makes me want to barf. The liberals want to be black so bad they cant stand it. It makes no sense. If you step back outside the box and look at everything you think to yourself this entire debate is so retarded

For FOOLPATROL:
You are – as almost in every posting you contributed – wrong. I did NOT buy my wife. I was in business trip when she was introduced to me in 2006. It took 2 years to get know each other and slowly became a love relationship.”Many racist men buying Asian women”. Your mind is warped brother. I didn’t have to buy her, bc she has rich family, in fact she is in her own busienss and made her family a decent living. She doesn’t want to come America, she wants her success in Vietnam. And as of her beauty, its amazing.
And did you know that in early 2009 the VNese government repatriated (hmm… DEPORTED) more than 200 blacks? Most of them back to Africa, bc they committed crimes, VISA-violations, illegal money-laundering, or financed prostitution AND – had AIDS. Now, I didn’t see any media-screaming about government “racism”. They were just apprehended, put on airplanes and waved Goodbye to them from Tan Son Nhat airport within a few days. No racism, no ACLU, no ACORN.l THIS should be the procedure in America too.

This guy, although being a proffessor,is a mental midget, he should have done as the officer requested and given him his ID and there would have been no problem. But he wanted to be a black smart ass and give the white officer an attitude ,the cop didn’t know who he was ,but if this officer had left when a real crook said he lived there and did not check ID this proffessor whould have raised mortal hell and demanded the officer be fired made to pay for all the suff that was stolen and our fab half breed would have backed the proff in his law suit and would have said the “Police acted stupidly” for not checking the crook out. Ovomit should have kept his mouth shut for a change

This all boils down to the fact that the Professor is just that a Professor. One that believes that because he is educated he does not need to be questioned by what he considers an uneducated officer of the law. Arrogance as well as race plays into this. I ran into several of this ilk when in college. You were not allowed to question anything they said or else. When the Prof. started noticing the involvement and observation of others he may have decided that he himself was in a jamb and tossed in the race card to muddy up the water.

I am a retired Police Officer. What the officer did was exactly right. When you recive a burglary in prograss you respond as if it was a burglary in progress.
When you confront a subject in the house, and he won’t give you any ID, you are to place this person under arrest, and by that, you handcuff this person, for transportation to the Police Station.
This is not profiling, it is a suspect caught in the act of a burglary. Things could have been a lot different if the Prof. had done what the officer had ask of him. I am sure the officer would have done as I would have done and that is to get confirmation as to who this man was. Then departed and told the dispatacher it was the home owner. But due to the actions of the Prof. the officer was left with no choice. AND IT WAS NOT BEAUSE HE WAS BLACK…

Thank you.

Mike, get the facts of the case. Geez!

YES I AM. SO?

The real Barack Obama has emerged. Another example of racial bias by Obama. Obama convicted a police officer, with an impeccable record, on national TV, without any evidence or any facts. Everyone knows what the disparaging word was that Gates was using when he addressed the police officer. The favorite word in most black males vocabulary. I’ve had many black friends in my lifetime and the honest ones freely admit that the word MF is their most frequently used word. Eddie Murphy, Rappers and other black comedians all use this word in most of their entertainment material. When you think about how filthy this Word is, it’s inferring that one is having sex with their mother. We can’t use the N word or you will be charged with a hate crime. I don’t believe the N word is near as disparaging as the MF word. Obama had no business making a statement condemning the police officer with out knowing the facts. Obama is the one who is racial profiling. How many other racially biased decisions does Obama make in the smoke filled back rooms of the white house? We can no longer pray in school, say the Pledge of Allegiance or say God Bless America, but our children will be taught that its okay to call someone a MF*er. What a shame. The liberals in control of congress and the white house will destroy the morals of our children and our great country.

Everything you said rings true, I was born and raised in the south and I have seen the progression, or should I say regression. In the early 60′s I was studying with some bible students( we were still segregated then, but we viewed them as our spiritual brothers,( the ones from the black congregation) . Some had to be taught to read and write, so they could read and understand the bible as well as anything else. This and other things helped them be better equipped to provide for and take care of themselves. For years they have been taught that every failure they have is because of the white men. People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have hung onto them like leeches and teaching them the wrong things, I guess to ,”feather there own beds so to speak”. How can you learn the truth if you are raised up on lies?
Theo

That’s ignorant Patty !!!!

Patty, please delineate the charges of ignorance you cast about. You shouldn’t make unsubstantiated charges or claims in a public forum and expect not to be called on it, so please tell us Patty II where Al and Patty I are ignorant. Or are Patty I and Patty II the same? Very confusing.

So, next time someone is breaking into a home, don’t call the police just because he is black?! The police were called to the home, asked for his ID. Gates gets smart mouthed. The police warned him to settle down, he didn’t, he gets arrested. THE SAME THING WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF HE WERE A WHITE MAN! He should have shown the officers more respect and he wouldn’t have been cuffed. To the officer, his color was irrelevant. Gates is the one who brought color into the equation.

I agree with D. C.

Reply to D.C., I agree. I get so tired of all these racism charges. I don’t care what color the person was that appeared to be breaking into my house, I would have been grateful to the neighbors for calling and then I would have been grateful to the officer who checked on my house. It was extremely unprofessional of the president to then make a charge of racism without knowing all of the facts. He neglected to say how the professor got beligerant with the officer and disrespectful. In my oppinion Mr. Gates got what he deserved.

While Gates did not act very nice to the police he was on his own property so he was not obliged to do so. When he produced the identification that showed him to be the owner of the home the police should have left the premises. There was nothing else to keep them there.

It is not against the law to get mad at someone on your own property. It is not againtst the law to be nasty to the police on your property. If you are not brandishing a weapon or threatening someone on your property there is nothing in the law that says you must be nice to anyone, including the police.

The comments about respecting authority left out a very important point. While you must respect authority on public property there is no law that requires you to do so on your own property. Unless there is an arrest warrant or a search warrant you are not required under law to respect authority on your own property. While it would be the reasonable, sensible, and easy thing to do so you do not have to if you do not want to. If Gates had showed his identification and went in the house and shut the door in the face of the police there is nothing they could have done about it. In fact, it is better to say nothing to the police because anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

On the other hand, the police, i.e. the government, must respect the law and the constitution when discharging their duties. While the police were acting properly in their investigation of a possible crime once it was determined that a crime had not been committed they should have excused themselves and headed for the patrol car. Their duty does not call upon them to argue with someone on their own property about the need to respect them because they are the police.

It is quite evident Gates did not act as he should have considering his position as a professor at Harvard. Be that as it may, it appears he harbors resentment against the police, or even white people in general, for being hasseled because he is black. That is understandable to a degree because it is human nature to resent people or institutions who have done you wrong. I cannot say I understand his situation because I am white, but I do understand when the police overstep their authority or use their badge and gun as a means to intimidate people.

The bottom line is when the police determined that Gates was the rightful owner of the house they should have walked away. They determined that a crime had not been committed so what else are they there for?

Just so you know, I am a staunch conservative and believe in the rule of law and the Constitution. From all the evidence presented thus far those who broke the law and violated the Constitution in this regard were the police, i.e. the government. It should not really surprise anyone that this occurred because the government violates the Constitution on a regular basis. To those who have governmental authority and power it is all about controlling people. That should quite evident to everyone!

YES D.C.,

WHEN OBAMA WAS A STUDENT IN CAMBRIDGE HE
GOT 17 TICKETS. HE PAID THEM ALONG WITH
PENALTIES -- WHEN?-- JUST BEFORE HE DECLARED
AS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.


President Barack Obama's criticism that a Cambridge, Mass., police officer "acted stupidly" this past week in arresting a black Harvard professor was inappropriate comment.
The president rushed to judgment by not assessing all the facts, shooting from the hip on the prompting of a liberal reporter who was obviously baiting him for a comment on race relations.
Regardless of the president's semi-apology, a good question to ask is, was the president's off-the-cuff statement just a blooper or did it reveal a deeper-seated sentiment garnered from his former 20 years in the anti-white, anti-American church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?


I also agree with DC. The blacks expect preferencial treatment because they are black. When they don’t get it, they scream racism. I didn’t vote for Obama for reasons other than the fact that he is black. After he was elected, I thought this might relieve racial tensions and stop all the hatred directed at white males by the black community. I was wrong it had a reverse effect and there is more racial animosity by the black community than there was before the annointed one.

Just what identification did the professor show that he was trying to get into his own house? A university ID badge with a picture on in proves nothing more than you are the person in the picture; if the professor wanted to act like a scholar (or even an intelligent home owner), he should have shown the officer something that proved he actually lived there.
Why did Obama say ANYTHING AT ALL about this incident? Will he appear on national television if I allege discrimination because I am overweight? Good grief, the president should be concerned with matters of national importance…and this is not one of them. Denouncing a police officer, and calling the police department’s actions “stupid” is not what I want my president to do.

What “perks” did you and your family gain as the result of owning human beings? Your sadistic ancestors raping and impregnating Black women? For the free labor that the human beings who your family owned provided? Any “perks” associated with any of that?

You have two choices, (1) continue to resist your racist programing and act as a good Christian American who acknowledges that “all men are created equal and endowed by the Creator with life, liberty and the persuit of happiness” or (2) burn in Hell with the rest of the racists. I’m certain you’ll chose wisely.

Did you know ancient Egypt had slaves? Did you know the africans raided other tribes & sold them to the spanish slave traders??You should read more history. I think you are probably a black phony-lawyer??What perks do you think I could have after a 100 years?The slaves were treated quite well by my family, even given money.Not beaten or raped.Also, I have many choices, you are an idiot to try & give me any.Have you read the bible? I believe it says judge not lest you be judged??

FoolPatrol, do you include yourself in the bunch of fools?

My answer to your questions is: None, as most people alive today did not. In fact, if you go back far enough in history, some of the ancestors of each one of us were most probably slaves. It was a fact of life centuries ago that when a nation was overcome by another, the people became slaves of the winner. So where do I go for reparations?

Hey, I’m not judging. You’re the one who said you were trying to overcome your bigoted, hate filled, racist programming. Exercise any option you like. Go to hell too, for all I care.

“The slaves were treated quite well by my family, even given money.Not beaten or raped.”

Since you say that you do not recieve perks as the result of your family owning God Created Human Beings because you were not involved 100 years ago; is it fair to say that you have no first hand knowledge as to how your family treated those Human Beings? Furthermore, no matter how well or poorly your family treated its Human property, isn’t it the basic right of God Created Human Beings to be free? So, blame it on Egypt? Where’s all the personal responsibility y’all are always talking about?

Happy choices!

You know I am really sorry that you just went there. You are keeping something alive and festering for what? We all know the repugnant past of this counrty. I don’t know a single soul that doesn’t regret that segment of our history. What good does it do for you to propogate that nonsence? I was attacked in my youth by a gang. That is my past it sdeosn’t belong to anyone else and frankly I left it behind me. I choose to look forward where personal responsibility and conduct are the order fo the day. Where everyone strives to do the right thing and give evryone the benefit of the doubt. Prof. Gates was out of line, so was the President.

It is people like you that would rather hang on to hate then look to the possiblities of the future….shame on you.

Choosing to blame anyone of today for what was done in the past is racist. Many are here come from another country, but are still called ‘racist’ if a black person doesn’t like what is said or done. Why is it that only blacks think ‘racism’ ? We don’t ever hear about oriental or any other nationality – only blacks. This is more of a payback for past ills than real world issues, but of course when the Firemen were denied their promotions because ‘no blacks passed the testing’ that was RACIST, but which of you stood up against that bias.? We need to stop yelling racist every time something goes against us.
It was a truly colorblind test, test of skill and knowledge . . . and what happened.

Why can’t you learn to forgive and just be yourself Footpatrol? Isn’t that a Chrisitian virtue. In fact those who don’t forgive, won’t be forgiven (Jesus, Sermon the Mount)

First of all: slavery is wrong now and has always been wrong. However, slavery is not something that white people invented for black people. Well over the majority of African (black) slaves were purchased as slaves from other Africans (blacks). When a tribe conquered another tribe, the conquered were enslaved. Many of these conquered people were sold to slave traders. White people did not go into Africa and round up Africans to enslave them (“Roots” is a ficticious story, like “Gone With The Wind”). Slavery still exists today in Africa – black people enslaving other black people. To my knowledge, Africa is the only place in this world where slavery still exists. Further, free blacks in this country owned African (black) slaves – so, maybe your family received some “perks” from owning human beings.

Slaves were very expensive and very few people could afford to own them. Also, they were generally very well cared for. If you in some way think your situation in life is worse, or harder because possibably one of your ancestors was a slave over 140 years ago, please see National Geographic. This should greatly assist you in understanding what would have most certainly happened to African-Americans had they not been brought to this country.

Please make so effort to see if what I said above is true. Sometime you have to do more than “scratch the surface” to get to the “whole story.”

Hey Ignorance Patrol,

You are right about the fact that, “slavery is wrong now and has always been wrong.” You are also right about African slave traders. Africans enslaved Africans as spoils of war when warring tribes fought against each other as did American Indians and untold races of people. Fact, not justification.

Oftentimes, the conquering tribes sold the Human captives to slave traders. You are wrong in your assertion that Slave traders did not also round up, capture and enslave Human Beings; they did. Untold numbers died during the Middle Passage as the result of the horrific conditions under which they were held captive. Others committed suicide to end their captivity.

Your assertion that most slaves were treated well is pure fantasy. North American slavery is the most brutal, repressive, sadistic from of Human bondage in recorded or oral history! Don’t sadistic, animalistic, rapes, brutal beatings, malnourishment and near starvation in some instances, separating families by selling children away from parents, wives from husbands and murder count as bad treatment to you?

I’m not afraid of knowledge (it’s the Sarah Palin wingnuts who abhor knowledge). I’ll read your sources if you’ll read mine. Voices From Slavery, 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, Norman R. Yetman, Editor. Black Spark White Fire, Richard Poe. U.S. v. Armistad, 40 U.S. 518; 10 L. Ed. 826

The truth isn’t always pretty, but it’s always the truth!

I’m white and slavery was a bad thing, and it’s part of everyone’s history whether you are black or white. If you go back into history it was not the white man selling slaves, it was the black man in Africa selling his own people into slavery. That doesn’t make it right for a white man in that time to by people, but it happened and many people fought to free the slaves. Many whites and blacks gave their lives to try and bring some equality to everyone. Do people look at a persons skin color, religion, etc, and judge that person, yes they do. It’s wrong, but great strides have been made to change the way people think. From everything I have read the police officer followed procedures and the professor reacted the wrong way. There are many incidents where people no matter their color go into homes and beatup or kill their wives/girlfriends and have ID’s that they live there. Even though the professor had an ID showing his address, they police had no way of know if there was a restraining order on him, etc, that would have ment he was not to be in the house. The other thing that didn’t help this case was the President making the statement that he made.

There is a very good movie, “Remember the Titans” that was about a football team where whites and blacks learned to become friends, because they learned about each other. If you have not seen it you should.

Hey Foolpatrol..look aroud all of us came from slavery unless you were bornc into royality..many years back. As far as slavery from the blacks..why arent they angry that Africa sold them in the first place? If any want to go back and start a new life ...hey ill foot the bill for a whole damn family!..Problem is what will they do when they get over there ? Sit there like they do here and wait for the US to drop food and water ,medicine out of airplanes. Yeah..they will just become welfare dependent like they are here. Yep..you can call me racist and any other name…I dont care anymore..I and a lot of other whites are sick and tired of our taxes paying for them. Go get a job,get on birth-control . We dont owe black people anything. DeBra

The only people who have a right to speak about being almost extinguish are the American Indians, that not only lost their country but their freedom and their lifes. No other race, should complaim about racism. President Lincoln gave the choice to the Black race to go back to Africa, some of them accepted and went to create a similar country like America. The majority stayed. Why? If you are so proud of being African American why did not you went back. The majority stayed following their masters and faighting against the Yankies. and because the life expectancy in America was better than in Africa. So explain to me Why is you are so proud to be African American mixed and married whites? You should married with your own. My parents and my husband parents were from Spain, the first children of an Spaniard are called Criollos, I was born in Cuba, so does my husband. It never occur to me to be married to a Cuban. I choose one of my own. I do not like the interrracial marriages, my daughter married a descendant of Asian Chinese, I am very proud of my son in law and my grandchildren. Because the chinesse are not only extremally a machinary of work, but decent citizen and do not have complexes like the Black Americans. I tell you in your phace and thanks God not all Black Americans are the same. but a grand majority of Black Americans, are opportunist, thives, lazy,don’t want to work, preferred easy money with drugs and prostitution, drop out from high school, and then said (“I am mistreated, you whites , hispanics, and asians are racists)” Really I am sick and tired of this. You Black Americans are not in a pay grade above the American Indians, and not above of other races, so chill out, drink a lot kool-aid and do not been a PINHEAD ANYMORE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH…..

debra

Please advise Octomom and Sarah ‘give me free’ Palin about birth control. Oh yea, Octomom and First Dude could use some advice about getting a job as they are both Pimps.

Sandman,

I disagree with you about the Professor Gates incident. I appreciate your understanding of history, all our history, and your civil tone. Thank you.

Be glad that your ancestors had the fortune to be in the USA. The rest of the slave holding Americas were not so tolerant of people insisting on their rights, regardless of skin color.

You foolish fool, Foolpatrol. AFRICA STILL HAS SLAVERY. Did u read the news yesterday when 4 Liberian boys (9-14 yrs old) raped an 8-yrs old Liberian girl (refugees in America). It was told, it’s a ‘custom’ in Liberia. More than that, as of today in 2009, blacks keep black slaves in African countries and abuse, torture them, especially women. It’s part of the african “culture”, boy! Are you OK with this? I think you could do more if you leave for Africa and start your missionary actions there. But, I think you will not move your fat butts, bc in America you have everything. Everything and you can scream ‘racism’, which can’t be done in your native homeland. So, just shut up and clean my shoes. I need to go to the supermarket soon!

Dear Foolpatrol

I stick to what I said – most slaves were treated very well. I was talking about the American slave owners, not the slave traders (which included black people). Most people in this country could not afford to own a slave, less than 5% of the population, including free blacks. Therefore, about 95% did not own slaves. Also, don’t forget that white people freed the slave in this country. As far as “raping and impregnating” black women: I can assure you that many more black men have raped and impregnated black woment (and white women) than white men have. Also, I hate to tell you that black women are not generally considered sexually attractive to white men.

Ignorance Patrpl,

“I stick to what I said”

That makes two of us!

“Also, don’t forget that white people freed the slave in this country.”

You can’t free what you can’t own. A Human Beings freedom is a inalienable God given right!

“As far as “raping and impregnating” black women: ….”

Put the Meth pipe down! If your readings are not as warped as your thinking, examine the numbers of mixed race Black Americans at the end of slavery. Those Americans were not the product of consentual relationships. Either white men preferred Black slave women to their wives and girlfriends. or they were sadistic, animalistic, rapists or both.

“Also, I hate to tell you that black women are not generally considered sexually attractive to white men.”

LOL! Perhaps that’s what they tell you. Check out BlackPeopleMeet and see the number of accomplished, prominent, educated, white men, seeking to establish relationships, not merely have sex with, Black women. It is so pervasive that many women expressly state, “No White Men” and “Black Men Only.” You might even find your husband, significant other, brother, uncle or father on the site trying to meet Black women. Most seeing, thinking, people acknowledge that women of color are the most beautiful women in the entire world! Live with it!

It is an undisputable fact that the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in this country. It is also an undisputable fact that It was passed and ratified by an all (100%) white congress around the end of 1865. When will the black people in Africa abolish slavery?

You need to put your “meth pipe” down. Relationships between black women and white men were very rare in the histories of both the US and Europe, just like they are today. I am not familiar with “BlackPeopleMeet”, but I will bet that a minute percentage of a percent of white men depend on “BlackPeopleMeet” to find a mate. In fact, I wonder about any one that depends on want-ads to find a date. Like I said earlier: there are many more black men raping black (and white) women than white men. I can assure you that well over the majority of white men do not find black women sexually attractive (PERIOD). I have been a white male for almost 50 years and I am as much an expert on this topic as anyone else. Most of the mixed race relationships that I see involve black men with white women – Obama’s parents, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, to name a few. I am not saying, nor did I say that black women are not attractive, beautiful, etc. However, it is a fact that most people perfer to choose a mate from their own race – just look around – mixed race couples amount to less than 1% of the population of this country. Black people generally perfer black people as mates, white people generally perfer white people as mates, Oriental people generally perfer Oriental people as mates, etc. – it is a fact.

Slavey in this country was abolished over 140 year ago. Most races of people have been enslaved, abused, etc. at one time or another. The Jews were almost whiped out less than 60 years ago as a result of racism. They are not sitting around blaming their condition on others – they moved on – they provide some of the worlds best doctors, lawyers, business people, etc. Many other races of people have moved to this country (some with only the clothes they had on). Many worked hard and saved their money and now own their on homes and business. Why can’t black people move on. Blacks are the biggest racist in this country. Everytime something happens that does not suite them they say it is because they are black. Its OK for blacks to have a “Black Entertainment TV, a Black Miss USA, a black chamber of commerce, etc., etc., etc. Can you imagine how the blacks would act if white people had similar organizations?

The black majority needs to quit listing to people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpeton – they make their living race bating – racial harmony would put them out of work. They would swim across the ocean underwater if they could pop-up in front of a camera. Black people need to start listing to African-Americans like Thomas Sowell, Alan Keyes, Bill Cosby, etc., people who’s only agenda is to help the black race.

Hey Ignorant,

I certain Black people everywhere appreciate you telling them what they need to do and who they need to start listening to. Of course you aren’t being presumptuous, just white and entitled. LOL

Dear Foolpatrol,

Please see: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4687 and http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1384 and read “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell (an un-presumptuous, non-white and un-entitled African-American) – listen to him, or just keep listening to the people that tell you what you want to hear instead of what you need to hear.

Fool,
She said “her ancestors”. Is she responsible for what her ancestors did? Don’t forget that for every white that owned slaves, there were many other whites that fought to overcome that travesty or the blacks would still be slaves. Also, it may have been your ancestors that enslaved many of the blacks in Africa. Does that somehow indite you? Give her a break.

AMEN

Ignorance Patrol has done an outstanding job commenting on slavery and racism. He did miss some important facts. The first slaves in America were white. The other fact he omitted is, “Where and what would black millionares living in opulence do were it not for slavery?” Oprah, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama , Jesse Jackson , Al Sharpton, all the athletes and entertainers wouldn’t be living this lavish style they’ve become accustomed to. They would be running around Africa with a spear in their hands chasing small animals for survival. Rather than habor this bitter hatred for White Americans; I think a little thanks are in order to white America for slavery, them and giving them the opportunities to prosper in this great country.

are you all stupid?

fool patrol is the only one who isnt retarded on here

Queenie,
That’s what happened to my Dad. He lectured us as kids to not be prejudiced. But then equal opportunity came along (he was a foreman at a cement plant). He witnessed many black workers using the new laws as an excuse to work less (much less) and by the time we were teen-agers we were lecturing him not to be prejudiced.
If someone wants true equality, then they need to ask for no more protection than anyone else gets. The president is definitely not color-blind.
Too bad, because I like most blacks that I meet, as they tend to express their feelings more openly than most whites, so I know where they are coming from and I can deal with that. But they deserve no more protection than anyone else gets.

That is right agree.
It looks as if many here have way to much time on there hands, for coming soon the tree of liberty must and will be cleansed with the blood of tyrants and Patriots these kool-aid drinkers have a hell of a wake up call coming..

Ignorance Patrol has done an outstanding job commenting on slavery and racism. He did miss some important facts. The first slaves in America were white. The other fact he omitted is, “Where and what would black millionares living in opulence do were it not for slavery?” Oprah, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama , Jesse Jackson , Al Sharpton, all the athletes and entertainers wouldn’t be living this lavish style they’ve become accustomed to. They would be running around Africa with a spear in their hands chasing small animals for survival. Rather than habor this bitter hatred for White Americans; I think a little thanks are in order to white America for slavery, freeing them and giving them the opportunities to prosper in this great country.

This is AMERICA; not a police state! The police have no right to question or detain any person once it is established that no crime has been committed.

That’s correct Foolpatrol, however, the officers had not established that a crime had not been committed. Therefore, they had every right to ask for Mr. Gates ID and they have every right to be given that ID instead of an argument.

Had Mr. Gates cooperated with the officers instead of being belligerent, he would not have been arrested.

It wouldn’t matter if he was green or pink – when a officer is investigating a crime, it is your responsibility as a citizen to cooperate.

“Professor Gates has published many works including documentaries about the history and treatment of Blacks in America. He’s a world renowned scholar and traveler who spends Summers on Martha’s Vinyard. He was a star among stars when he attended Harvard.”
EXACTLY–HE IS SPOILED , PETULANT. and ARROGANT. Not good things to be in the face of someone who can arrest you. He should have thanked the police for being there to look after his house. Then everyone would have gone away happy.

zabjw

Are all successful Black people are SPOILED, PETULANT. and ARROGANT? Perhaps white people who have not faced the challenges Black people routinely face and who are not as successful are merely angry and jealous.

This guy, Foolpatrol, is a joke. I can smell the odor of his comments coming from his mouth even over the wires. There is no reasoning with this ilk; this type of person looks for and cherry picks the issues he wants to comment on. It is a shame and a travesty for the American people that this kind of person perpetuates on Society the hate and racism he idolizes and must have to exist.

Oh God. Should we stop arguing with this foolish fool Foolpatrol?

Hey Foolpatrol…I have to agree with you on the birth control of octomom. sarah Palin can afford her children.Welfare moms and octomom can not afford to give those children basic needs without welfare. Its common sense. I do not have children but I do have 8 large dogs recues, and I do not take in more dogs than I can afford to feed,vet care and just a lot of time spent with them. I dont think I need to say children of course are more important. It takes money to feed,clothe,decent house and education. It takes more than love. Now octomom is a disgrace…she planned this attention getting,money making scheme and I hope the state of Cal makes her pay back every dime she collected from the millions she will make prostituting her children.

I don’t know what country you’ve been living in. The police can detain you for many reasons, merely on suspicion, etc.

Dear Foolproof,

You said, “The police have no right to question or detain any person once it is established that no crime has been committed.” Therefore, the professor should have established right away with his identification that he was in his own home and thanked the cops for coming promptly. When a cop gets a call about a burglary, his adrenalin immediately kicks in, and he knows that he could be facing grave danger or death, so he doesn’t need someone to give him grief and refuse to identify himself and act like an idiot because of false pride.

I have good dealings with a great black cop and a good white cop. And I am thankful for them.

I blame the Democrat Party for playing the race card ad infinitim in order to get African American votes. When an African American is a conservative, this being a free country, the dems taunt him or her as being Uncle Tom, no matter how brilliant they are. Democrats keep putting blacks in the victim category, so that they can be their "protectors."


Nor should nurses have to take abuse from black people when they come to the ER/hospital. The verbal abuse is not limited to police officers..I have been called WHITE MOTHER F## BITCH while I am trying to save their asses from bleeding to death from a GSW or knifing. You know I think Martin Luther King jr would be ashamed..he wanted us to judge not by color but by character. well I think blacks have a long way to go. Mr.Gates proved that….no matter how much education you have if you cant act civilized,repective,moral,productive ....just go back to the jungle....we dont want you here any more. We are tired of feeding,housing and clothing you blacks.

I just couldn’t resist Debra,
Wow! you are full of hate. Several things come to mind. 1: So, Debra if you don’t like it here why don’t you go back to europe where your ancesters are from. 2: Why, just because your white do you think you get to belong on US soil more than anyone else. 3: You know, the majority of people that have been on public assistance in the US have been people who share our skin color, white. 4: And where do you suggest Native Americans go when they complain about the ongoing genocide that benefits white euroamericans over their (Native Americans) freedom and self determination. 5: No one should be told that if they don’t like it here go somewhere else. We’re all where we are and the issues that are in front of us are the ones we need to deal with. 6: There are influences that affect every culture and sub-culture. How those influences move and change over time determines how we think about them now. I believe we need to shed these ideas that divide and conquer us. Debra, have you ever experienced sexism. How just is that? people thinking you are incapable just because you are a woman. These ideas have a history they’ve been handed down. Through social, religious and political doctrine. In order to keep the common people fighting amongst our selves to believe that we are each others enemy instead of looking to see who really benefits from all this mayhem. A glutenous greed by the few by means of exploitation of the many. Hierarchy, Domination & Subservience, The Order. “The New World Order”. George H. W. Bush former US president used this term in a speech while he was president. Check out you tube. Yes this domination thing has been goin on for 1000′s of years. But what most people don’t realize is that so have egalitarian societies, Where the ideas of; we are all together, we all contribute to the health and well being of our fellow human beings, the wealth of our society belongs to all of us. Societies around the world like this have also existed through out history. but the domination model now rules the world and it’s best tool is divide and conquer. so all our predjudices are created by those in power through rascism, sexism and it boils down to classism. Keeping those medium to lower classes hateing and fighting amongst themselves; preventing us from coming together under a common bond to create a decent and just world.

I agree with you Debra. I work for a school district poredominatly Hispanic and Black families. While soem hispanics are for the “i-own-america” attitude, blacks have a strong anti-White outcoem on EAVERY issue. They DEMAND and do not ask politely. When they talk THEY DEMAND ATTENTION, when they complain, it has to be solved immediately and right there on the spot. All employees hate to deal with them. The easiest way Asians and Whites, they do understand we are humans we make mistakes. Some don’t, but that’s the modern times…
LAURIE, your comment on Debra is MORE hateful, than you think. If you or your loved one would be called a “bitch”, or your mother associated with sexual acts, I am not sure you would be able to handle with a “we-are-all-the-same-smile”. Be real. Furthermore, Debra has the right to vent her pain and frustration.
I wonder if all blacks would be repatriated and deported back to Africa, how much evryday-life in America would be changed? How much would change Africa? How many balck would be crying and begging to let them back and promise; they will do anything just let them live again in the ‘hatred whitey’s America’…

Laurie Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 6:44 am

Your logic is lost on most that post here, they are too filled with hate and frustration to see your response for what it is and for what you actually said. They want no solution to any of societies problems and fail to see they are part of the problem and offer no solutions and most likely have no idea for a solution that promotes harmony and respect for those they hate and do not share their biases, but some of us admire your insight and thank you for it.

Publicity stunt? Put the Meth pipe down!

Actually, he has a good point when you consider that Mr. Gates is planning on publishing a book about racism. Free publicity and perhaps the chance at a lawsuit against the city will get his name out in front of public. If that was his goal, he accomplished it.

Professor Gates has published many works including documentaries about the history and treatment of Blacks in America. He’s a world renowned scholar and traveler who spends Summers on Martha’s Vinyard. He was a star among stars when he attended Harvard. Meth will fry your brain! Put the pipes down!

Sounds to me like “Foolpatrol” is a racist. It seems to me that the African- American people in this country are considerably more racist than the white people of this country; and are extremely quick to play the racism card when anything negative happens concerning an African- American citizen.

Does anyone on either side of this race issue really believe that calling the other side “stupid” is something the President of the United States of America should be doing? I wish we at least had a grown-up in the White House – not two spoiled brat children in charge of a whole country of people from all different walks of life and all different ethnic makeups. I thought we elected someone who would represent all of us – not automatically side with some “foaming at the mouth” person who obviously did not reflect his education by the garbage that came out of his mouth! Does anyone think that Obama’s remarks were truly “uncalibrated”? Don’t tyou think we are smart enought to know that he did this deliberately? It is called “divide and conquer” and here is the result – we are scrapping it out here, instead of embracing the fact that we are in this conversation because we all love our Country. Obviously Obama loves Obama. I don’t care if he were purple with green stripes – he isn’t dumb enough to think that he could call a police officer “stupid” when it was his friend who was doing everything possible to engage the officer in a dispute. Why would you verbally attack an officer who came out to stop a burglary of your home? I would have given him my I.D. and offered him some coffee and a snack – at least! How about: “thank you for coming out here to stop a possible burglary. I appreciate what you guys do for the community.”

My black son encounters some incidents of racism. As a Jew I also encounter occassional anti-semetic remarks. My black 18 year old son looks scary on purpose. He wears big old pimp style earings, falling off pants and huge oversize sweatshirts. He wears rags on his head most of the time – supposed to keep his hair flat!!??? He is lazy and disrespectful and has no desire to work for good grades. Do I dislike him because he is black? No – he does everything he can possibly do to intimidate white people – he gets this attitude from attending public schools where other black students hate whites. He even hates me because I won’t let him get high inside my house or smoke cigarettes in my house. I insist that he at least goes to school – even if he never does any work and the teachers do not expect him to do any work – mainly because he is black, and if they insisted he do some schoolwork he would probably say they were discriminating against him and they would get in trouble instead of him. He is glad that Obama got elected – because now he can get anything he wants by just putting his hand out – free schools, free healthcare, free housing, etc. I am 64 years old so he is now paid social security benefits directly into his pocket!! I pay the bills – he gets the money sent directly to him. He spends the money on drugs and cigarettes while I struggle to pay for food and utilities and make mortgage payments. He spends the money the same way all of his black friends and their parents spend their government money – on nonsense. He tells me I am stupid not to get food stamps and stupid for helping remove weeds from abandoned homes in my neighborhood that have been foreclosed on. He says I am stupid whenever I “do the right thing”. I am kicking him out next week because he turned 18 last month. He refuses to leave – so I will probably have to call the police out to escort him from my home. I have had this kid since he was 5 years old. It makes me sad. I loved him, taught him to read, taught him to do math, taught him to speak English correctly, taught him good manners. Then he went to High School and it was downhill from there. There is an entire generation of black people who hate Whites for no personal reasons – just because they think the day is coming when they will be cut lose upon the whites and can take what they want. My son doesn’t help anyone, doesn’t do anythng without being paid for it, and has no natural affection for any human being. Before I adopted him and my younger son, I was vehmenetly against abortion and I wanted to put my money where my mouth is and I did emergency foster care, and then I adopted 2 of the hard cases. After 15 years I am not so against abortion anymore. Some people should never have been born! I know that sounds terrible but it is true. It isn’t about black and white until the President endorses that view. It is about the “spin” that is put on everything.

Sylvia (not so smart) Smart,

First, most people don’t refer to their children by race, e.g., “my Black son.” Considering your belief that your “Black son” should have never been born, coupled with him suffering abuse, neglect and/or abandonment that resulted in him being placed in foster care, the racial incidents you admit that he encounters, the identity crisis associated with your parents looking different from you, not knowing the richness of his history and culture and the normal teenage foolishness that children of all races experience, I’m surprised that he is doing as well as he has done.

Children know how you feel about them. FYI Children resent you and act out when they know that the person who is supposed to love them unconditionally believes they should have been aborted. Feeling abandoned by his birth family and emotionally abandoned by you, does not leave your “Black son” with much in the way of family ties.

As a person who represented abused and neglected children in foster care, I can attest to the fact that they always have issues (all races) arising from the conditions that resulted in them being placed in foster care, especially identity issues. Then, the system farms them out to “parents” (often for a check) who they can’t identify with and who are ill prepared to handle the problems and issues associated with adopting a child with special needs. You don’t get optimum results and end up with parents who believe that the child they committed to love unconditionally should have never been born. How very sad!

Your intentions may have been good in the beginning. Nonetheless, the damage caused by your hateful comments far outweighs any good that you initially did. I sincerely hope that you and your “Black son,” can turn this situation around as he matures and comes into his own. Serious counseling is in order for both of you, but especially for your “Black son” as the adoption was voluntary on your part.

Your story is Exhibit A as to why we should require individuals seeking to adopt children of different races to educate themselves, teach and allow their child to participate in activities that positively reflects the child’s heritage and culture.

Not so smart, or just really sad?

Does anyone remember that Gates “could not find his key”, and that he and his companion had to enter the house without it? (how?) What about the woman who called the police? Does anyone remember that she was misquoted in the press? Remember what I said about “cherry-picking”? And it is entirely possible that Gates deliberately set the situation up to aggrandize his racial agenda? C’mon, people – don’t let the baiters change the facts – Gates and Obama used the situation to their self-evaluated political agenda. What a shame!

Remember that there was a black cop with him, who agreed with what the white cop said. Why would he do that if the professor was in the right?

Why does Obama call himself black? Maybe it sounds better than calling himself Arab or white? I don’t know why he does it, but he definitely plays the race card.

Susan, Blacks, here, were originally referred to as African Americans out of deference to their disdain of being labeled by their skin color (skin-color wasn’t supposed to matter). Back then ‘African’ was understood to mean Black, in color. But now there are White Africans as well, so they now prefer to be called Blacks.

JIMB, When Sgt. Crowley arrived at the scene, Prof. Gates was inside the house. Crowley, not knowing who was in there asked ‘whoever’ to come outside, and when Gates came out he launched into a tirade: “Don’t you know whom you are dealing with here?” When Crowley asked for some identification, Gates produced the Harvard I.D. card, which did not have an address on it, and Crowley arrested and cuffed him. Gates then accused Crowley of arresting him just because he was black. (The Dennis & Callahan TV show has a video interview of Sgt. Crowley on this.) At no time did Prof. Gates treat this innocent encounter as the simple Abbot & Costello comedy it was. (Sgt. Crowley is white.)