Answering Wizbang

D.J. Drummond has written a well written piece on race relations. I agree with the majority of it; However one little part did not resonate with me well at all.

The first requirement for a racial dialogue is mutual respect by and for all parties.

Mr. Drummond, I will start respecting the Negro race, when they stop blaming me and all Anglo-Saxon Americans for the problems in their own communities. Further more, I will start respecting the Negro race when they stop blaming me personally for things that happened before I was even born. Things like Slavery and the racial discrimination in the south.

Further more, I will start respecting the Negro community when they stop with the damn grievance-mongering that goes on constantly; mainly in the Negro Liberal Circles. After all, it was the Republican Party that set them free. But no; the Negro Community was not satisfied with that. They had to have more, so, they were given affirmative action; a program that allowed for the legal discrimination of Anglo-Saxon Americans; commonly known as White People.

It was said, long ago, among those who were opposed to the ending of the slave trade; that “If we give them an inch, they will take a mile.” Something that it very true amongst the Liberals and the Minority crowd. I am afraid that those people were absolutely correct.

Racist you say? No, not hardly. More like a Realist.

Quote of the Day

Yet it takes a good dose of rationalization to convince oneself that something only racial is “racist.” This may be easy for the left, but for those on the right it probably takes a bit more effort. After all, many liberals are so detached from reality, so solipsistic and relativistic, that they mistake their feelings for Truth. They have the lie on retainer. Conservatives, on the other hand, embrace it only occasionally, as a consultant.
Another difference between the right and left is that we traditionalists know we’re called to be better than that. We know that the Truth will not only set us free and carry the day when the last chapter is written, but that it’s all we have. The lie will never serve us like it does the liars. That is, unless, as they have done, we make it our master.
And the Truth is the point. Whenever we peddle that lie called the race card, we contribute to the mass delusion and lessen the chances that the Truth will be known, all for some momentary political gain. We trade something beautiful for thirty pieces of silver. Liberals make this a practice, and it’s why they’re contemptible. But, remember, silver is all they have.
As for my friends on the right, for the moment, I could be even madder at you. After all, your trespass is the greater. You forced me to defend Barbara Boxer.

Video: Henry Gates Jr. goes on N-Word Tirad

The Video:

A video has surfaced on YouTube of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. delivering a church speech in which he uses the N-word, rails against “racist historically white institutions in America” and accuses Newt Gingrich of attempting to block blacks from entering the middle class.
Gates became a lightning rod of racial controversy when President Obama defended the professor handcuffed in his home last week by police in Cambridge, Mass.
“We are trying to end what we call the one n-gger syndrome – you know, this place ain’t big enough for more than one of us,” said Gates in the video, which was filmed in 1999 in the All Souls Church in Washington, D.C.
via WorldNetDaily: Shock video: Professor Gates goes on N-word rant.

Very interesting. “Racism for me, but not for thee.”

Typical, So very typical for African-Americans and for Liberals. Notice how he goes off on Clarence Thomas?

Update: HotAirPundit has more on the Story:

“Without affirmative action we would have never been able to integrate racist historically white institutions in American society”

“I taught at Duke for one long painful year, I don’t even like the airplane to flyover North Carolina…Because of racism I never would have been allowed to compete with white boys and white girls”

Contract with America and Newt Gingrich “set up barriers so no more of you all could get in here”
Gates Attacks:
White racist institutions
White racism
Duke (majority white college)
North Carolina
Clarence Thomas
Newt Gingrich
Contract with America
Uses the N-Word…
So much for Dr. Kings vision of a colorblind society
I doubt if most people after watching this would want to go have a beer with him…

This is one of Obama friends. Like Mr. Pundit said here, this guy and Jeremiah Wright most likely were friends. Lord knows, they think much alike. I wonder if President Obama will throw Mr. Gates under the bus too?

This is what happens when ACORN thugs are confronted by real Americans

This comes via NY Gathering of Eagles:

Quotes:

ACORN and their new front group Act Now were pwned by Tea Party Patriots again on Long Island!
When they couldn’t win their arguments with facts, the ACORN employees tried to intimidate the Tea Party folks. No way that could work with dedicated Patriots! So ACORN cut and run when the going got tough, and repeated that sorry performance twice in one day.
[…]
I’m no reporter so bear with me. Today I felt the same pride inside me matching the feeling I get whenever I read of our Founding Fathers’ activism. It might sound over exaggerated, but it doesn’t change how I feel. Today we scored a victory some may see as trivial, I see as momentous. Either way as a patriot it is overwhelming. Today I witnessed and participated in seeing ‘grass-roots folk’ come together in an instant and square off with, as of yesterday, an unchallenged foe in our cause-ACORN. We arrived at King Kullen this morning in Commack and as planned found ACORN petitioners signing up unaware patrons of the shopping center coming and going. They were asking people to sign a petition favoring Obama’s Health Care plan. We were there to give the other side and people listened.
ACORN produced four ‘workers’ we amassed 40 patriots complete with signs, banners, flyers, stickers, posters and a few loud voices.
ACORN 4 – Patriots 40.
I was told they were ‘workers’ for the organization We-Can(?) We were the people on the street giving up a beautiful warm Saturday morning to be heard.
I once read that 1 man defending his home is worth 20 paid mercenaries sent to destroy it. Believe it.
ACORN being outnumbered, out voiced and literally out debated left the area in a hurry. We followed.
After receiving communication that they fled to Stop and Shop in Bohemia 40+ patriots showed up and overwhelmed them there too. What a sight. Again ACORN took flight. They didn’t know how to react other then demanding we leave. We demanded an equal moment of time to discuss the meat and potatoes of the Obama health Care plan, they refused and retreated. I witnessed many passersby refusing to sign their petition; one even scratched their name off the list after we spoke to them. Almost every person I encountered was interested and I was relieved as almost all agreed with us. There was a little drama when a passerby vehemently argued for the plan, it was contentious but that’s liberty and democracy at work.
The only news agency seen was a local group from Alternative News based here on LI. The police were on scene, but remained out of the way as we did our own policing and respecting of the peace.
Score this a huge victory. I hope this inspires everyone to get up and get off the side-lines. You want change, than be silent no more! Silence is another form of consent, don’t be silent-don’t consent.
Known organizations present and represented: Campaign for Liberty, CSA, 9/11 Glenn Beck group, and resistnet.com by me. Others were ordinary people who heard last night and dropped their plans and showed up. What a moment.

Ever notice what color them liberal acorn thugs were?

The reason I bring this up is because real White Liberals are not the ones who will run out into the trenches and do the dirty work. They let their resident useful idiots get out there do the hard work; African-Americans! Sort of a 21 century plantation operation. Why do they do this? Because the Democratic Party, has been using the African-American vote since the 1960’s. To do this, they employ people like Al Sharpton to keep stirring the waters of Racial hatred toward the white people; to somehow convince them that the “White Man” is keeping them down.

You would think that they could have at least come a bit more prepared than this though.

Hope! Change! Intimidation! The Brave New World under the Faux Post Racial President. President Bambi Teleprompter!

Others: Gateway Pundit

Hmmmmmm — Does Henry Gates run a Bogus Charity?

I have got to hand it to the Conservative Blogsophere. When they put their minds to it. They can do a kick butt job of dirt digging on people. It is absolutely amazing to me. These guys put the MSM to God-awful shame.

Dan Riehl has the scoop:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr controls a tax-exempt, non-profit charity, Inkwell Foundation, Inc, that managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support in one year, yet only gave out $27,500 in grants, the bulk of which went to Gates’ employees and Harvard colleagues. Also, as recently as September 2008, the Boston Globe reported that Gates’ charity was not in compliance with the law for failing to register the proper paperwork, despite the charity existing since 2005. The charge at the time was that it was “bogus,” as you’ll see below. In fact, the state Attorney General’s office told the Globe the charity was likely either inactive, or dissolved. Yet, documents below show the charity is healthy, wealthy and active.
Is it possible that Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was acting strange when law enforcement showed up at his door because he didn’t want the story below to come out? It may take a tax lawyer to answer that question, but based on this research, it can’t be ruled out. We know the press has questioned Gates about the charity in the past and gotten no response.

There is much more to this story, Please head over to Dan’s Place to read it all.

This would be the ultimate take-down of the century. But I highly doubt that the Feds will do anything. As it is right now; we have a local police Dept being accused of racism. The last thing that Bambi Teleprompter needs is some pissed black man accusing him of using the Government to target him. That would not be a good thing for the Democratic Party. Seeing that they’re already losing on healthcare.

Anyhow, Here’s the roundup of the Blogs on the subject:

Piece of Work in Progress says:

In any case, it’s strange how proggies can be so concerned about their privacy whilst selling out ours to all kinds of intrusive government agencies. I think that Gates should feel fortunate that the cops weren’t asking for his Real ID.

Now that’s funny! :rotfl: Quite true. But very funny. 😀

The Confederate Yankee says:

If Obama Justice Department will cover for the New Black Panthers, I’m sure they’ll cover for a personal friend, even if he acted “stupidly.”

PrairiePundit says:

This strikes me as the way liberals support each other and avoid paying taxes. It seems to explain why they feel immune to tax increases.

Robert Stacy McCain Writes:

So, let’s put this together. There was gross, rampant, institutionalized racism at one time in the United States. Since then, we’ve had plenty of people of all ethnic backgrounds arrive in academia and in society who are anointed to preach the evils of the path, and, purportedly, lead us into some shiny, post-racial future.
What Are The Entry Criteria For That Future?
When do we take the police report at face value, and just admit that somebody was disorderly? Because it looks more as though we’ve simply got a priesthood that is going to manufacture the occasional ritual to perpetuate itself, becoming the very thing it set out to despise.

Now for my take on this whole thing. Here is the straight out truth. Mr. Gates, who is black, is trying to start something; because he is black. It is obvious to me, that this whole thing could have been avoided, if Gates would have just had done what he was told, and kept his mouth shut. Had he heeded the Officers instructions, none of this would have ever happened. But instead Gates decided that he was going to try and play the “oppressed negro” card and get himself arrested; all so Mr. Gates could get into the headlines and go to court and make him some easy money.

Since I am known for my controversy; let me remind Mr. Gates of something here. Mr. Gates you are damned lucky that you were not in Alabama and that this is not the 1950’s. Because if it were, the media would most likely be reporting about your dead corpse being found on the side of the road or face down in a river, with a bullet in your head. Which, in all honesty; is most likely were you really belong. You ought to once and a while say a little prayer for the life of privilege that you lead. Because there was a time sir, when the real founders of this Country actually RULED this land and people like you; were taken care of and not in very nice ways. You should think about that, once in a while. Just a thought.

I think that it is a damned shamed that the very people, whom the Republican Party fought long and hard to free from Slavery, are now acting like Tyrants and acting like the entire Anglo-Saxon race owes them a favor. I have to believe that of President Abraham Lincoln would have known this, he would have never bothered with them at all. Sometimes I think it is too bad, that we cannot go back and change that history.

At first blush, I take this at face value, but……

Something troubles me:

A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.
Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates’ reaction to Crowley was “a little bit stranger than it should have been.”
Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley “100 percent.”
Gates has said he was the victim of racial profiling.
via Black officer at Gates home during arrest said scholar acted strange, supports arrest — chicagotribune.com.

However, watch this video, watch this man’s body language:

Also, since when does being outside; and being loud with a Police officer constitute a reason to be arrested? If the man was no danger to then public or the officers on the scene, then why was he even arrested?

Could it be that the Union threatened this black police officer and told him, that if spoke against the arresting officer, that he would pay for it? Something is fishy. I could be wrong, but still the explanation for his reason for being arrested just does not wash with me, at all. Sorry, but being an insulting ass toward a police officer; is not a valid reason for arrest. Because if that was the case, I would be in jail! :rotfl:

Something just does not add up here. I cannot quite put my finger on it. True, the Harvard guy was being an asshole. But the officer was not one hundred percent right either here.

Thoughts?

Henry Gates-Gate Continued

The Stupidity Continues:

The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday.
“I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human
Sgt. James Crowley
being,” Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer.
It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote – and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete.
“Some people were saying ‘There’s the guy who killed Reggie Lewis’ afterward. I was broken-hearted. I cried for many nights,” he said.
Crowley, 42, said he’s not a racist, despite how some have cast his actions in the Gates case. “Those who know me know I’m not,” he said.
via Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis – BostonHerald.com.

Here is a perfect example of the anti-police leftists in our Country. (Kinda like the Anti-police, Anti-Military Libertarians and so-called Conservatives, that like to come to this Blog… they’re all related)

It is quite obvious to anyone, that has an ounce of a brain; that Mr Gates was clearly trying to provoke a situation, that clearly would have never happened, had Mr. Gates just kept his mouth shut and did what the police officer told him to do. It is also quite obvious that Gates is trying to turn a non-racial situation into a racial situation.

Mr. Gates provoked this situation; because he was black, Mr. Gates is one of the radical liberal Harvard professors who, like our now President, want to have a black ran, owned and operated United States. Who wants white men, like me, to cower in fear of the black man, because the sins of White men over 300 years ago in this country. “Social Justice” they call it. I call it radical black nationalism. The Punishment of white men everywhere for previous sins of their forefathers.

I have on this blog, since its inception fought against this sort of radical liberal black nationalism and the satanic mindset of collectivism that is now on the path to ruining our country. I will continue to do so. The Liberal blacks can call me racist all they like, I do not care. But this sort of nonsense will not go unchallenged by this writer.

Of course, this sort of Race Baiting and black entitlement is what has kept, and will continue to keep the Democrat Party in power. It has since around 1968 and continues to do so, to this very day.

Update: AllahPundit over at HotAir points out that this said officer, was picked to be an expert of racial profiling, by a black police commissioner. Heh… Nuance Indeed. Something tells me, that this guy Gates is going to get a nice phone call from this local Democratic leadership and get told to basically STFU and disappear. Because if this guys union is backing him up, the last thing the Democrats need is some asshole liberal trying to cause problems with the local caucus.

Others: Michelle Malkin Patterico’s Pontifications, The Confluence, Riehl World View, Gateway Pundit, Flopping Aces, And So it Goes in Shreveport,

Black Harvard Professor screams "Race!" and Charges are dropped.

Go read that whole mess, right here.

I find it so amazing, that a black man can scream, “I am an oppressed Negro!” and like magic charges are dropped.

I was born the wrong color. 🙄

If this guy was white, he would still be in a jail cell. Point blank.

Thank you Abraham Lincoln for ruining America. :pissedoff:

President Barack Obama — A Grievance-Monger President

I knew that this would happen, if he were elected. Sorry to say; but it appears that I was absolutely correct.

I was not aware that Al Sharpton was looking for help

First off, let me say that I think Cap and Trade is wrong, will kill jobs and so on.

But this is totally disgusting:

Some of my fellow Conservatives are loving it. I personally found it to be most offensive and quite childish. The man was being outmaneuvered and instead of trying to argue the point; he chose to play the race card. How convenient. :pissedoff:

Al Sharpton would have been proud. So would John Podhoretz possibly.

Not that I am defending Boxer, she is an idiot. But the worst way to fight idiocy; is with MORE idiocy.

Color me among those who are quite unimpressed. :smug:

Others: Townhall.com, Weekly Standard, The Other McCain, Say Anything, Wonk Room, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers