Comments on: Update III: Badass In America (Fighting Race Baiters)

By: Greco

Greco — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:36:38 +0000

To the poster Alex: How exactly is it foolish and lame to study the History, Culture, and Civilization of black people when black students all across this land study white history. Is it the case that you really want to say that black culture couldn't have anything worthwhile to study or that we should only study the history of people of the same national or phenotypical status as ourselves. I feel sure that you mean that the thing most worth studying in a university are the highest achievements of mankind and that those happen to be located in European culture and perhaps some Asian cultures but certainly not in black culture. [Familiarize yourself with the writings on ilanamercer.com. The proper object of academic study is HISTORY. not color-coded identity politics. "History from below" is a political endeavor, not a scholarly pursuit.--IM]

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:29:55 +0000

Professor Gates is as stupid as he is tactless; his entire career is built upon perpetuating racism by whining, “it’s not fair to be black” from his academic bastion. His disgraceful behavior with the police is evidence of tactless, and as proof of his stupidity and/or myopia, he is yet to observe that he is both black and better off than 99% of whites. [Posters must provide a valid e-address. See Posting Policy.]

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:24:09 +0000

Ilana, have you seen the Chris rock video on how not to get arrested by the police? You and your readers should check it out.

By: Bearded Spock

Bearded Spock — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:19:07 +0000

Two men acted unreasonably, but only one of them used violence to deprive (temporarily) the other of his liberty.

If only one of them is a racist, then I’s say it’s the professor, but that doesn’t make him a criminal. This was a case of false arrest and a petty abuse of power by the cop. That’s why the charges were dropped.

Ask yourself who is more personally threatening to you: a cop who will arrest you in your own home just for saying something he doesn’t like in a tone that he doesn’t like or an Ivy League pseudo intellectual who locks himself out of his house?

Ok, Gates was arrested on his front porch AFTER Gates told him to come outside, but that’s entrapment. Crowley knew that he couldn’t charge someone for disorderly conduct in their own house, so he told Gates to go outside the house where others could here him yelling.

It’s not just libertarians who should side with Gates based on the NonAgression Principle. Christians should also. Freedom of speech does not only extend to people we agree with.

By: Martin Berrow

Martin Berrow — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:20:28 +0000

I am Certain that Geert Wilder would never have made that statement about the Cambridge Police either.
Martin Berrow

By: Martin Berrow

Martin Berrow — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:16:27 +0000

This reaction from professor Gates is totally predictable. Another day at the office.Gates is the perfect poster child for this scenario. A legend in his own mind. How much of a worm this professor is. He is normal for who he is. Whether it is someone like Rodney King or Spike lee, whatever social class they fall into, this is a typical pattern of trying to insulate themselves because of the color of their skin. I'm tired of it. But even more disgusting is that the President of the USA stood up for this worm professor Gates, making that assassin statement, "The Cambridge Police acted stupidly". This said after he said, " I don't have the facts". Man, this is pitiful. Contrast this thought with Benjamin Netanyahu. Could you imagine if Benjamin Netanyahu were president of the USA (I wish) and this same scenario happened? Here is a real man, and a real man will act like a real man. Obama is the ultimate worm. Martin Berrow [My choice of president: Geert Wilder. Netanyahu is a good, brilliant man, but too much of a neocon.]

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:12:56 +0000

THE great Hahvahd Professor Henry Gates was under arrest for maybe 2 hours – outrage of the millennia. Alternative perspective – in Maryland, a cop rushing to a domestic dispute smashed into someone known only as “a woman” and killed her:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/…/AR2009072402036.html
This unknown woman who was probably not a black studies University Professor lost her life in a tragic accident but she doesn’t count for squat. Her life is not equivalent to 2 hours of “you know who you’re messin’ with” Gates.

Obama, once caught in the mess, got his writers & teleprompter together with the usual mix of philosophizing schmooze, nuance, and humor in his latest “having a beer on the White House Lawn” response. However, I don’t think the slick shtick is suckering the populous as well as it used to.

I would like to know whether Officer Crowley’s audiotape reveals that our erudite Hahvahd Professor might have used a stronger word than ” messin’ ” (Hint – one that might rhyme with “trucking”). As you correctly point out, the issue is not whether a Crowley or a Ricci are perfect but that they are willing to assert their case in spite of the pressure of the media-government elite.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:57:30 +0000

Gentle readers should take a trip to the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. Seems blacks and Latinos had been stopped by police in disproportionate numbers on the D.C. Beltway. Or so said the ACLU. So, Maryland state police, together with various county police forces, took a hands-off attitude towards motorists who were speeding, driving recklessly and a host of other offenses.

Result?

Total anarchy on the freeways. You can speed with impunity on the Beltway or weave in and out of traffic, and you will be hard pressed to be stopped by police, especially if you are a racial minority.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:36:27 +0000

Ilana, don't you know that Aristotle was an African? Shame on you and your phallocentric Eurocentrism.

By: James W.

James W. — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:03:25 +0000

Is it possible that upon the arrival of the cop, the professor recognized an opportunity for some street theatre which would bring publicity to his full-time “I’m a victim” shtick? When Obama first commented on the matter, his intent was to not so subtly throw a bone to that part of his base constituency who think the cops are out to get them because of their color. You see, police should question blacks and Latinos on a per capita basis at the exact same rate as they question whites – who is committing any crimes is secondary. But the supposedly smooth president didn’t properly gauge the reaction to the bone he threw — now he will have to spin it in such away as to disavow his use of the term “stupidly” (if he hasn’t already) and chalk it up to the fact that he was influenced by his friendship with Prof. Gates. All is good, back to the hero worship. Ilana was spot on in her description of the professor’s credentials.