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Not Even His Racism Is Sincere
What Did I Just Say?
What a coincidence. In one of yesterday's posts ("the ring-kissing cowards of the news media"), I stated that after reading yesterday's AP headline stories, it "sounds to me like racial conflict is being highlighted, and thereby encouraged, more so now under an African-American president than it was before he took office."
And now today's headline story:Obama remark on black scholar's arrest angers cops
BOSTON (AP) -- Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.
It could even set back the progress in race relations that helped Obama become the nation's first African-American president, they said.
"What we don't need is public safety officials across the country second-guessing themselves," said David Holway, president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents 15,000 public safety officials around the country. "The president [has] alienated public safety officers across the country with his comments."
Gates was arrested July 16 by Sgt. James Crowley, who was first to respond to the home the renowned black scholar rents from Harvard, after a woman reported seeing two black men trying to force open the front door. Gates said he had to shove the door open because it was jammed. He was charged with disorderly conduct after police said he yelled at the white officer, accused him of racial bias and refused to calm down after Crowley demanded Gates show him identification to prove he lived in the home. The charge was dropped Tuesday, but Gates has demanded an apology, calling his arrest a case of racial profiling.
Obama was asked about Gates' arrest at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night and began his response by saying Gates was a friend and he didn't have all the facts.
"But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 - what I think we know separate and apart from this incident - is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."
On Thursday, the White House tried to calm the hubbub over Obama's comments by saying Obama was not calling the officer stupid. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama felt that "at a certain point the situation got far out of hand" at Gates' home.
Cambridge police Commissioner Robert Haas said Obama's comments hurt the agency.
Fellow law enforcement officers across the country sided with Crowley.
Obama's comments could diminish work done by law enforcement to address racial issues, said James Preston, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Florida State Lodge.You may not remember this one, or perhaps you didn't read it, but on January 31st of this year I wrote the following:
Pat yourselves on the back. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can now feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. Good for you. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but an articulate black man who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. You have also foolishly traded your economic freedom -- and mine – what little there was left – for the chance to feel good about yourselves. Forgive me if I don’t share your happy obliviousness.
By the way … it is just as unacceptable for blacks to “play the race card”, as it is repulsive, immoral and politically suicidal for any other ethnic group to play that card (an incredible 94% of the 12 million black voters in America voted for the black candidate in 2008).
Now … when you have finished judging and disdaining me for expressing such prehistoric and racist views, realize this: The ideas expressed above are not even my own. I borrowed them from an open letter written on November 6, 2008 by Anne Wortham, an individualist liberal who happens to be black. Dr. Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at
Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality. Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness.
Are you brave enough to allow yourself to be viewed as politically incorrect for the sake of rescuing a little intellectual honesty from the hysteria of recent political events? Anne Wortham is, and I, for one, admire her for it.
I don't know about you, but I am getting tired of hearing racists accuse other people of being a racist. A negro can be just as much a "racist" as any caucasian can be, and Obama is a example of it. That's right. I think there is more than enough evidence to conclude that our president is a racist. The really sinister part, though, is that not even his racism is sincere. He doesn't care if someone is black or white or Hispanic or Asian. He only cares how he can exploit that person's blackness or whiteness to his own political advantage.
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