The Historical Implications of Gatesgate
For the uninformed, Gatesgate is the scandal now brewing about Harvard professor Henry Gates who found himself locked out of his house earlier this week, and while attempting to break-in, police were called by a passerby. Instead of simply showing his ID to the police, Gates went into a tirade about racism, calling the white cop racist. The other cop was black and according to Gates brand of race-baiting, blacks can’t be racist (it’s only now being revealed that the black officer supports the white officers version of events). The police put up with the tirade for a while, but when Gates continued to refuse to provide ID, he was arrested.
In the aftermath, President Obama, without actually reviewing the details of the incident claimed the police acted stupidly. It then was exposed that Henry Gates is a personal friend of Obama.
Since then it’s also been exposed that Obama received 17 parking tickets during 1989-1991 from the Cambridge Police Department which he only paid weeks before he announced his bid for the presidency.
Given the full scope of the facts, the police union are demanding Obama apologize to the white officer, something he has so far refused to do.
It’s also been revealed that Henry Gates is representative of the fringe extreme of socialist, black radicals. He also, like many others tied to Obama, has connection with organizations posing as one thing, but ostensibly existing solely to make money for those involved. His ties to Obama have been largely ignored until now, but with this scandal brewing, Gates’ extremism is now reflecting on Obama.
White people are still the majority race in America, and in spite of their status as minorities, Asians and Hispanics have largely been turned off by the race baiting done by many prominent blacks (the racists at La Raza notwithstanding). So as the nation observes the President’s response, they don’t see a calm rational reaction, but a knee-jerk, racist response typical of most blacks in America. Typical of the very racist that the vast majority of non-blacks see almost daily, but dare not comment on.
Obama is now treading on thin ice. People have been overlooking quite a bit of nonsense coming out of his administration, but when a white cop is obviously just doing his job and is then labeled a racist, with the President’s endorsement of that reaction, people will pause in the support of Obama. We assumed that with a black president, the rest of us could stop walking on egg shells around blacks. But no, it appears the problem may be getting even worse. And that spells serious trouble for Obama.
Even his fellow Liberals are questioning Obama’s leadership abilities in aftermath of Gates’ tantrum. This at a time when the bulk of Obama’s plans are still awaiting approval by Congress.
As the scandal brews, and more people pay attention to the shady things Gates has been allowed to get away with, Obama will have yet another mentor he must run away from. But this time he’ll have his own words to answer for.
I seem to remember one of the loudest complaints Liberals made about Bush was that he never apologized. Hmmm.
Posted by Danny Carlton at July 25, 2009 8:41 AM