Why was the apparent racial profiling of Dr. Gates an occasion for Obama to characterize a local police action, and the police officer himself, as “stupid” – thus bringing down the certain wrath of the white public he has so assiduously courted?
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In profiling Dr. Gates, the Cambridge police were attempting to erase the line that his class has labored so mightily to draw between themselves and what they consider the moral turpitude of the mass of African Americans. If Dr. Gates could be treated like any other middle-aged Black man, the entire Better Class of Blacks was threatened.Brazil Butt Lift Workout

There are no perspectives or voices from those at the frontlines of community struggles, in the trenches.  Our "leaders" are chosen for us be they Skip Gates or Barack Obama, or P Diddy.  The same names, faces, and voices are regurgitated ad nauseum as "the voice or perspective" of Black America.  Just when did Soledad O-Brien become an expert on Black people?
Did she acquire it from her Australian father or Afro-Cuban mother?  According to wiki she doesn't even speak Spanish fluently.  She is the fifth of six children who all graduated from Harvard University, she is married to the co-head of the investment banking firm Thomas Weisal Partners.  She has 2 children, no doubt Harvard bound.
 
But of course she, like no other, understands "the voices from the hood."
 
 

While some folks were wrapping themselves in their blanket of denial over the Gate's incident last week, one of Sergeant Crowley's colleagues in Boston (Officer Justin Barrett) referred to professor Gates as a "Monkey Eating Gorilla" in an e-mail.   He now faces termination from the Boston Police Dept.
 
Of course Officer Barrett felt he had to appear on the Larry King show to announce to the world that he's not a racist.  Amazing!
 
 

While some folks were wrapping themselves in their blanket of denial over the Gate's incident last week, one of Sergeant Crowley's colleagues in Boston (Officer Justin Barrett) referred to professor Gates as a "Monkey Eating Gorilla" in an e-mail.   He now faces termination from the Boston Police Dept.
 
Of course Officer Barrett felt he had to appear on the Larry King show to announce to the world that he's not a racist.  Amazing!
 
 

Glen, why did you assert, as if it were an undisputed fact, that Gates was racially profiled? What's the evidence? Doesn't evidence matter? 

In the Vietnam War we "pure white" laboring men, if we wanted not an Article XV, never for a moment considered calling our middleclass black officers “son.”  And as those of intelligence who led us into battle did on occasion refer to us as “son,” out of mutual respect we choose not to patronize each other in such a demeaning way.
 
In regards to our self-absorbed majority creating an intelligence dictatorship, a rich nobility dictatorship that allows everyone to enrich themselves upon the misery of those slower of thought, enough said.
 
The Eugenics Movement was conceived by the super-intelligent rich for the following reason: Ability to kill and compete in a global economy is in direct proportion to intelligence, and keeping us dumb laboring men unemployed, in jail and divorced, which allows men of intelligence to have free access to our girls, this does in fact elevate intelligence, increase ability to conduct wars and improve our economy.
 
Eugenics Movement creates a smoke screen, something that blinds the mind by burning the emotions, by useing all of corporate owned media to create an illusion that the type of genocide called eugenics is all about race.  Problem is, over 20% of children in America are under nourished and suffering premature death, and they are about equally divided between pure white, brown and pure black.
 
Having grown up in the slums of Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and LA, and having lived in neighborhoods that were mostly all white, experience tells me that poverty has nothing to do with race, it being all to do with the brains were born with.  
 
For ambition is a three step process: First comes the intelligence to learn a task, then comes visible signs of progress, and then comes ambition. Like when I tried in high school to learn geometry, tried again in the Army, then tried again in vocational school and finally gave up. Surely no visible signs of progress = no ambition.
 
My “pure white” European ancestors came to America on a sail boat as bond slaves, and finally died as impoverished bond slaves. And down to great grandfather Tollefson who carried ice on his back, to grandfather Ellis who died uncoupling a rail road car, and to father Ellis who carried hides on his back, all considered dumb, all slow of thought and very proud I am of it.
 
Comes now a stuck-up middle-speed brain owned by “Enlightened Cynic,” and he to parade his superior intelligence by sarcasm that attempts to degrade those he considers inferior. But fool that he be, surely his intelligent stupidity is now on display for all the world to see.  

Bless their darling hearts, now just because I am white, stuck-down and of the slow thinking laboring class, they wouldn't discriminate against me, would they? 
 
Ignore me, use five syllable words that cannot be understood by, now they wouldn’t be so high minded as to prejudice exclude me in such an intelligent way, would they?
 
Its like this “white” middleclass widow who answered my dating ad.  Who then responded to my thought that the Salvation Army was correct, that the permanent homeless had not the intelligence to earn a living wage, by saying,
 
“O no, their just as smart as us, its just learned helplessness...
we should not be prejudice against the homeless...
we must be careful not to humiliate or shame them in that way...
My church gives free food to the homeless and it is so beautiful.”  
 
And so, gentlemen, why is it shameful to be a less intelligent gentlemen?
 
But quite to the contrary, for we slow and careful thinkers are dumb and proud of it. Nothing embarrassing about it and nothing to be shamed in the being of it.  
 
For brains like sex-appeal and wealth pass from father to son, and our fate in life is set at birth. For brains produce ability, ability produces visible signs of progress, and the result is ambition which produces income
 
For stupid are those of intelligence who think that being dumb is shameful, that those who act dumb are of a lower class and not deserving of upper class income, healthcare or quality of life.
 
For stupid is not a measure of physical intelligence, but the degree to which pride and conceit has a man blinded in darkness and out of sync with reality.
 
For stupid and the most brainwashed class of beings that ever walked the earth are those of the stuck-up middleclass in Empire USA. For we of the 60% laboring class endure the misery, the 10% super intelligent create the misery, and oblivious to it all the 30% middleclass supervise, manage and administer the misery.  
 
Comes now the only logical purpose for allowing such misery, to prove the harm in it. Surely this be true, and we are all given a different ability to earn income as a test, to see if we pass our excessive wealth down to the next one less intelligent where it belongs.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021058/Higher-social-classes-significantly-HIGHER-IQs-working-class-claims-academic.html#navigation#navigation
  

...to know whether or not Obama and Gates are going to connect the dots from their situation to 287g, the program which expands the rights of law enforcement and has been proven to increase the rate of racial profiling. Would it be presumptuous of me to guess that they will not?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." 
Forth Amendment, US Constitution
 
First blow came when cop ordered Gates to come out of the safety of his home, destroying his Forth Amendment right. Second blow came when cop ordered Gates to be silent, destroying his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
 
The only possible legal complaint the officer had against Gates was a failure to treat an officer of the law with proper respect. But the officer lost all right to be treated with respect by ordering Gates to obey an illegal command and doing it in such a disrespectful way that it greatly upset a very gifted, cool and highly intelligent Professor Gates.
 
And surely the officer is telling fiction when he alleges that public speaker Gates used loud, blunt and belligerent language against him. For what Gates most likely did, with a small crowd gathered to watch, was cut the officer to the quick with articulate and skilful words impossible to refute and most embarrassing to endure.
 
And so, if the arresting officer teaches a course on racial profiling to new cadets, then pity all the victims harmed of his perverse idea of what the Constitution is all about.

Strap a killing machine to a man’s body, and surely you end up with a god-ego that can only be appeased by adoration and worship.
 
Now if everyone was honest we would not need law enforcement, just pass honest laws and elect honest politicians to administer decency and order.  But there is very little honor among men, least of all honorable politicians, so we need force and the lubricant that gets things done is government deadly force.
 
Watching how brutal the riot police in England are, beating to death on video an old man because he failed to get out of the way, I must say their almost as bad as riot police in Minneapolis or Chicago during a national convention.  But there is a world of difference between our law enforcement and theirs in the relationship carried on between the law and people.
 
For in grand old England no cop carries a gun, and would you believe cops are actually friendly toward the people.  And the all-encompassing reason is that in England law-abiding people are never exposed to the deadly force of government.
 
Its like last spring at a grocery store when a little girl in front of me was shaking and lightly sobbing.  So I looked up at her mother who then said, “She sees the policemen, I don’t know why she’s so afraid of him?”  So I said to her, “Its not the cop, its the killing machine strapped to his body.”  So why all this excessive show of force, all this state sponsored terror that accomplishes nothing but make little girls cry.
 
And so, friendship with a stranger having a gun strapped to his body, especially a stranger who can legally kill you if he feels there is probable cause, surely this is an impossibility.  For there are old friends who we know from experience intend us no harm, and there are strangers with a smile who come to us with no ability to do the slightest harm.  For life is short, we all live a doomed existence and nothing gives us more stress then the thought of being in harms way.

For a new law I pray, if a cop needs a gun make him carry it in his hand, that's what I always say.

For Barack Obama a teachable moment is personalizing and trivializing the situation, using it to show how "charming" he is. A beer with both protaganists. Isn't that ever so civilized.
At a news conference Gibbs and whomever even had a laugh about what kind of beer would Obama drink.
But I'm thinking that for millions of people whose lives are forever destroyed by the criminally unjust sytem, the families and communities that are destroyed, for every individual whose loved one rots in jail, for all of these, I'm thinking it's no laughing matter.
 
 
 

Mr. Ford you are dead on.  In fact, all one needs to do is listen to Dr. Gates comments after the incident in which he proclaimed (somewhat ironically if not cynically) that he would in essence devote his forthcoming scholarship to racial profiling and the plight of ordinary Black Americans.  Oh really, "Skip, I thought Directors of African American Studies Programs do that anyway?"  Sorry, my bad.  Didn't know you needed an epiphany of sorts.
 
Looks like poor Skip got too caught up in the euphoria of "post-racial America,"  a convenient meme for his new forays into DNA research.  Memo to Skip:  DNA has long proved our commonalities and sameness, but the Racists and Supremacists have never let science get in the way of a good, self-serving theory.  I mean, after all, as Juan Cole writes, the Taliban and Afghans have been evil savages for a long, long time.
 
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175100/juan_cole_empire_s_paranoia_about...
"What most observers don't realize is that the doomsday rhetoric about this region at the top of the world is hardly new. It's at least 100 years old. During their campaigns in the northwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British officers, journalists and editorialists sounded much like American strategists, analysts, and pundits of the present moment. They construed the Pashtun tribesmen who inhabited Waziristan as the new Normans, a dire menace to London that threatened to overturn the British Empire."
 
So now we are suppose to analyze "race relations" and use the Gates incident as "teachable moment" as if teachable moments were possible in a political and media system as vapid and corrupt as the United States.  The corrupt MSM (liberal and conservative alike) wants to focus on the "caller"s mindset.  (Overlooking the fact that her "description" is proof positive of why so many people are falsely I.D.'d)  They won't discuss the recordings that show Gates showed his ID while in his home. The fact of the matter is the cop arrested Gates because he was an uppidity nigga, the other truth of the matter is that the cops have no problem equally arresting "uppidty whites and Hispanics."  But you can certainly get away easier arresting uppidity niggas, that's a component of the racial profiling context.  Bet you if the same thing happened to Alan Dershowitz you wouldn't have Rush and the Police Unions asking for apologies. 
 
A "teachable moment" would emphasize inadequate and poorly trained police, a teachable moment would have discussed the inherent and scientifically documented dangers of convictions based on faulty ID's, a teachable moment would entail discussing the rise of the police state and officers's (and prosecutors) unfettered discretion.  As Kelly Vlahos writes correctly, "Today, Henry Gates Tommorow You."  Check out the videos in her article and you'll seen that race is only one aspect of the problem.  The bigger problem is the ascending police state that "censors" all political protest or personal protestations by bogus charges like "disorderly conduct" or "interference with official acts."  Back in the days when I was a prosecutor the cops or sheriff's deputies would charge your ass with "all of the above" oblivous to principles like double jeopardy or lesser included offenses.  Think about all the innocent whites and others arrested at political functions.  Or the college student who was arrested because he challenged John Kerry.  As long as our rotten and besotted MSM is carrying water for "teachable moments" you can be assured we'll all remain as dumb as doornails.  Check out the Okla. Hwy Patrol video to see the heights of the arrogance of some of (not all) of the folks called upon to "protect and serve."  Some of these peole are not fit to have authority or carry a gun, that includes Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
 
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2009/07/27/today-henry-gates-tomorrow...
 
http://www.examiner.com/x-6121-Oklahoma-Crime-Examiner~y2009m6d13-Oklaho...
 
 p.s.  Why they trying to give Plaxico 2 years in jail for shooting HIMSELF?