Crowley did step outside Gates house where Gates continued to hurl racial insults at a cop who was investigating a burglary report from a passerby, insult his mother, and yell loudly at him, in front of a group of witnesses. None of them have come forward to defend Gates to the media, even though the media was initially heavily on Gates side and still heavily leans that way, or anyway is avoiding much attacking him.

What Gates did was to in fact violated Mass. disorderly conduct law, which is indeed intended to make it a minor but arrestable offense to persist in insulting cops in their line of duty, certainly if you do it loudly and personally.

A white Harvard employee who taunted a cop to the same degree would yes also be arrested. If anything with a lower threshold. With the white upper middle class man the cop would know that there would be far less likelihood of media and political blowback. I imagine Crowley considered than an refused to be intimidated by that possibility, and so arrested Gates. Good for him.

You can argue that cops shouldn't have laws and interpretations of them allowing them to arrest people who are sufficiently and persistently insulting to them but they do.

It would have been wrong of Crowley to back down from treating Gates just as he would have an equally insulting white, just because Gates was loudly threatening to "go to his boss" and make a bit race card stink about it, which is exactly what he did say he'd do -- and did. Or tried to.

Only it's backfiring.

There's whole lot of black special privilege out there that isn't confined to affirmative action. There's the privilege of being treated with kid gloves for extremely obnoxious public behavior, for fear of those expressing disapproval being called "racist". There's the privilege of not getting fired for things that whites or Asians would for similar reasons, and a lawsuit to follow.

It's pervasive. Much more pervasive these days than actual acted upon prejudice against blacks.

Posted by: doug1 on July 26, 2009 6:02 PM

How come nobody is addressing the fact that Gates and Obama know one another? I find this tidbit fascinating. Old Harvard buddies create a racial "incident" as our country is completely socialized right in front of our eyes. Amazing.

You'd almost think that this might be intentionally done to divide people while the elites completely take over. But I guess that would be a "conspiracy theory". Sigh. I guess I'll have to rely on the major media to tell me the real truth before I make up my mind on anything.

You'd have to be clueless moron to believe that blacks are instutionally discriminated against, when for 40 years now, everybody else in the US has been institutionally discriminated against for the benefit of blacks. I won't even tolerate arguments to the contrary, its so patently obvious. But you'd think it were 1959 instead of 2009 by listening to the press.

This is insane. Two elite and pampered mulattos acting like they represent the average black. Give it a rest already. The fix is in.

Posted by: L on July 27, 2009 12:29 AM

Gates was in the wrong here. I have friends (white ones) who have been arrested for doing the exact same thing, namely berating a cop for investigating a routine incident and not stopping after being asked to multiple times. Gates was brought in for a few hours and released with the charges dropped. Totally routine.

And yes, he should be glad the neighbor called the cops in this case.

Posted by: JV on July 27, 2009 2:30 AM

gates is not a mulatoo people. A light skinned blk person does not always = mulatto.

Posted by: chic noir on July 29, 2009 7:53 PM

KR, you're so wildly off-base that I have to believe you're simply playing Devil's advocate. If you really do believe the crap you wrote here, and you're over 30 years old, I don't think there's any hope for you, lest you get hit in the head or something.

"Think 'Birthers' and Obama's citizenship, etc., if you're skeptical that this sort of thing is still that prevalent in our society."

The reason there are "birthers" out there is because Obama has not bee forthcoming about many of the salient points in his life. Why didn't he just produce his birth certificate during the campaign? Why has he never produced his college transcripts, as so many Dems fail to do? Why did the media never press these issues?

Hmmmmm...

Posted by: Jake Bronson on July 31, 2009 11:57 AM

From FactCheck.org

In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake."

We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.

Update, Nov. 1: The director of Hawaii’s Department of Health confirmed Oct. 31 that Obama was born in Honolulu.

Don't ever let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory there, Jake.

Posted by: Chris White on August 1, 2009 8:58 PM






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