The officer said Gates first refused to show ID, eventually showing a Harvard ID that showed he was a Professor but did not provide his address, which was the point. He also refused to say who else was in the house. The officer noted that sometimes separated husbands break into a house that they own but its their wife's residence and he has no right to be there. He needed to determine not only was Gates breaking and entering his own house, but why. There is also a chance that a third party burglar was still in the house. Cops have to sort out these situations all of the time, but Gates was having none of it. This was going to be his 15 minutes.
If you see that statement as blaming someone for something, then you totally missed the point and didnt answer the question. People continue to say 150 years ago, but segregation and Jim Crow was not that long ago. Thats not even a generation removed. So please dont tell me to forget about something that happened just around the corner. When you see me saying the man is holding me down and I cant get ahead. Then direct this statement towards me, but dont expect to just forget like these things never happened, because its not generations ago. These things happened to my dad and uncles and myself growing up in Louisiana. I have had grade school teachers call me the n-word, because I was in honors classes. I didnt start a protest and march. I got the best grades that I could manage and doing just fine in life without blaming anyone. I show people the same love they show me, if they are white, hispanic, black or asian. It doesnt matter, but no one is going to ever tell me to forget. Those experiences has made me a stronger and more driven person. To see life for what it is, not for what you tell me or any other person tells me when they say get over it. Affirmative Action and all other programs has done nothing for me. Me getting my ass up for work and school everyday has done something for me. But you are entitled to your opinion, as I am mine! Did he really spit on the cop? or did he spit will talking, like Jesse Jackson lol.
I never saw a report that said he spit on the cop so I can't comment on that. If you aren't blaming any and all of your problems on whitey then you are the exception, not the rule and until many more get on board race relations will be stuck in the mud. You sound like a smart and good person and I'm not trying to direct any hostility towards you although this is a very heated subject. As long as the black community absorbs the hatred spewed by bigoted leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan we as a nation will not be one. White people elected a black man to the highest office in the nation, yet a large percentage of blacks see whites as the primary evil in the world and blame them for all that is wrong. "The white cop was picking on me, it had nothing to do with the fact that I was driving down the road with a crack pipe in my mouth. He's just a racist!!!!" It's time to quit using the race card for everything that goes wrong.
Something we can agree on Farrakhan is pretty much the idiot of all idiots. A guy who preaches love and hate and decries racism, but always has something disparaging to say about Jews. Also, from my understanding I dont think you can drive and smoke crack at the sametime. :hihi:
My wife and i still get dirty looks everywhere we go in this state. Although racism may not be out in the open as much as it has been in the past, it still lives and breathes, and is very healthy in the shadows.
Damn it, I timed out and lost a very well thought out response. Summed up, put yourself in someone else's shoes before you say, "Just get over it already." Black folks don't need patronization, but an attempt at understanding and compassion wouldn't hurt.
I don't think a single person in this thread has even suggested that racism no longer exists. However linking every problem in the black community to racism is more than old.
