His arrogance, the president of the United States, has shown his very un-presidential side. He has, with the help of his good friend professor Gates, turned a simple situation of a police officer doing his job into an act of anti-white racism.
I am a Detroiter. I am a part of the white minority of my city. My friends and neighbors are all colors. We view police officers with respect. In no way do I feel that my opinion of Mr. Gates and Mr. Obama are typical of all members of their ethnic background. That being said, I am amazed at the way the media and the left wing black activists like Mr. Obama, were so quick to go after Officer Crowley's jugular.
Lets take both stories: A. Gates says he forgot his key and was trying to gain access to his own house with the help of a friend when Officer Gates showed up and arrested him from his own home. B. Crowley says he was responding to a breaking and entering report, asked to see some identification from Gates and his friend when Gates became belligerent and refused to comply with Crowley's request.
Option A makes no sense at all. I have been in a similar situation. I was picking up some things from my brother's home in an upscale neighborhood. I had a key. But since my brother and his family were out of town, a concerned neighbor called the police. The police officer showed up and fairly curtly, asked for my identification. I explained my situation and gave him my drivers license. I was told to stand on the porch while he ran a check on my I.D. The neighbor showed up and explained her side, we met and I was allowed to go on my way. Imagine if I had refused to give my I.D? I know I would have been cuffed and hauled to the police station for my show of defiance and disrespect. Instead, I complied and thanked the officer and the neighbor for watching over my brother's home. The officer was white. If I was black I am sure I could have used the excuse that I was treated that way because of our racial differences. But I am white. And I know the reality is I was a SUSPECT in a report of suspicious activity. Until I could clear things up, I knew to respect the officer doing his job and to comply with his directions.
As I watch the media coverage of the Gates/Crowley episode, I am amazed at the people who are interviewed about the way blacks approach a similar situation. They all seem to feel that showing restraint and respect is something only blacks have to show. We all do in that situation or we could face a possible arrest for disorderly conduct, like Gates. I would think a Harvard professor would know how to behave when caught in a suspicious act. Why is it that black activists feel they should be exempt from showing respect for law enforcement? In my neighborhood we all know how to address a police officer. No matter what color, sex or nationality we are or the officer is, you say "Yes Sir/Ma'am" and do as they say and you will soon be on your way. That is, unless you want to stir up some headlines.
President Obama, who said "I don't know all the facts" was quick to follow that up with "the police acted stupidly". How did he know that it wasn't Gates who acted "stupidly"? All the evidence points to Gates being belligerent and refusing to comply with Crowley's request that he show identification. Obama's blaming of the white police officer because "as an African-American" he "knows about racial profiling" was a racial slur at officer Crowley. And though he back-tracked a bit, he has still not apologized. This eye-opening moment reveals that we have the most racist president in the White House since pre-civil war days. And with the help of his buddies in the media, he is in the process of destroying the progress of the last forty years of the civil rights movement by his reckless words and accusations and the media's need to find anyone to back up his stupidity.
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