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My God, It's Full of Stoopid

by: Dean Barker

Fri Jul 24, 2009 at 15:17:36 PM EDT
How dare a black man like Barack Obama publicly reflect on his friend's ordeal and the history of racial profiling?

Who does he think he is, President of the United States or something?

So much for health care reform, or whatever it was we used to talk about.

Alternate Title: Warning: Having a Black Male President of the United States Means That, Just Occasionally, You May Have to Hear the Perspective of a Black Male.
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My God, It's Full of Stoopid | 11 comments
That's what he wants YOU to think, Dean (4.00 / 2)
He might not have been born here!
Let me make sure I've got this right: (4.00 / 3)
  1. A Cambridge police officer arrests Prof. Gates on charges of "disorderly conduct."
  2. The Cambridge police department drops all charges.
  3. The Cambridge police department insists that no mistake was made.

Thsee are nto typos. I PALNNED to tpye thsi way!

Right. The public needs to be pacific. If it isn't, it needs to be pacified. (0.00 / 0)
In Scranton, they shot a non pacific naked woman dead in her own home as part of a mental health check.  They were going to write her a citation, but she came at them with a knife.
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Perspective (0.00 / 0)
There is one thing about the press conference that is telling. The right feels constrained, somewhat, by the fact that Obama is black. They haven't quite figured out how to criticize him. There are obvious exceptions, but in general they exercise a bit of caution, fearing the racist label.

But, when there is a visible reminder of the president's race, they see it as an opportunity to pounce.

It all smacks of doth protest too much. We aren't the ones talking about race! The president is!

Dialogue Opened? (4.00 / 2)
I was glad the president recognized that sometimes police can indeed do stupid things. The nature of the relationship to citizens tends to be police dominate, you submit. It is usually impossible to just talk to an officer as a fellow human being.
That has to change.  

No'm Sayn?
I want to agree (0.00 / 0)
But whenever we revisit the "national conversation on race," nothing ever comes of it.

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Sorry (0.00 / 0)
I just reread this and realized you're talking about a broader issue than race.

Again, I'd like to agree. I think this might be an even taller order, though.

[ Parent ]
And sometimes... (0.00 / 0)
Citizens also do dumb things.  As President Obamaa said today, there was overreaction on both sides.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
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Yeah. I guess the only difference is (4.00 / 1)
Gates did his dumb thing in his own home, on his own time.

While the cop did his dumb thing inside Gates' home, with a gun, on taxpayer time.

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The other thing is, (4.00 / 1)
if Gates were a middle aged white man, would the police have been called in the first place?  I have,uh, found myself in a similar situation. Nobody called the cops on me.

It also reminds me of the time a friend of mine wound up in Riker's  Island for writing graffiti over a picture of Rudy Giuliani that was painted on a wall, like the commies used to do of themselves. The guy had no previous record and was also a middle-aged man. I mean, really...

Crowley Interview and police report (0.00 / 0)
Here's the full 22 minute interview that was released today between local Boston station WHDH and Officer Crowley:

Direct Windows Media link
or find it in their flash video collection web page thingie

Accompanying text article including a PDF of the police report

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