they musta upped the voltage on that gun. he went down like paris hilton in a limo. not even a peep after it hit him. thats good stuff. sounded like he fell in a nest of rattlesnakes. even his teeth were rattling. obama has proven to be an incompetent, economic illiterate thus far. clearly not nearly as smart as people had envisioned.
so was bush. i guess 'bama's tryin for the "at least hes the kinda guy you'd like to have a beer with" thing that dubya had goin for him.:hihi:
ok, i guess my joke was lost. i was trying to say with the beer thing, hes strivin to be like bush. seemed funny at the time.
Here is my take. 1. The cop was doing his job, protecting Gates property, and asked all the right questions to determine that Gates was legitimate and had a right to be there. He may have been insensitive to black folks' persecution feelings and perhaps should have explained WHY he was asking these questions. The cop's black partner who was there the whole time has stated that they acted professionally and he supports the cop "100%". 2. Gates assumed without evidence that his color had something to do with it and refused to cooperate. He may have been insensitive to a police officer's need to asses the situation completely. He should have been cooperative and simply provided a drivers license and told the officer who was in the house. 3. Gates then overreacted and escalated by following the office outside to his car, loudly making a scene, insulting the officer personally and ignoring two warnings to leave it alone. I hope he learned a lesson from this. 4. The cop then overreacted and escalated by arresting Gates instead of telling him to STFU and behave himself like a distinguished Harvard Professor should and simply leaving. I hope he learned a lesson from this. 5. Obama escalated it badly by about involving the President of the United States publicly in a local matter that he knew nothing about and had a personal bias. He "acted stupidly" and he had to back off from it, which he did today. Obama had made a big deal when running about becoming The President, not The Black President. Wednesday, for the first time, he showed us The Black President, offended millions of police officers, and it wasn't pretty. I hope he learned a lesson from this.
i would be stunned if anything red just said is not exactly right. seems pretty clear that both parties allowed things to get worse than they could have been had either side just shut their mouths and gone about their business. but it can be tough to keep quiet sometimes.
Slavery was a horrible horrible thing that happened to blacks generations ago yet today there are people who blame everything bad in their life on what happened to their ancestors. It sounds horrible, but think about it, as bad as slavery was it's the best thing that ever happened for this generation of Afro Americans. Where would they be now without it? It's time to stop blaming everything bad on what happened generations ago and start living in today. Just because the officer was white and the Professor black doesn't mean that "honky was there to get him". Had he complied with the officers requests instead of playing the poor black man being picked on it would be a non story. Every time something goes wrong a large segment of the population blames it on honky. How in the world are we going to move forward with race relations if Afro Americans are glued to the past. My ancestors were kicked out of Nova Scotia by the British yet every time a cop pulls me over I don't cry about those damn Anglo Saxons picking on the poor French descendant. It's time that people of all races take responsibility for where they are in life and quit blaming everything bad on someone else. It's also way past time for Afro Americans to quit crying about the whole world is out to get me. If that's the case how in the hell did Obama get elected President? People like Gates are why we will never move forward to a color blind society because they refuse to be color blind and instead use color as a crutch.
