Thomas Sowell
‘A Post Racial President?’

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell072809.php3

This is the sum total of Raymond’s original comments before I offered mine.

“Sgt. James Crowley said quite another in his incident report http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/03/why_the_police_must_be_videota.php http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20090720_Store_video_catches_cop_bullying_woman.html?viewAll=y “

Now, having offered my comments, Raymond wants to retroactively tell us what he really implied by giving us two links, so as to respond/refute what I actually said about the subject.

It’s an interesting approach. Say nothing of substance, and when challenged, offer the substance we all should have intrinsically understood from the non-substantive comments.

I rest my case.

When the officer, Sgt. James Crowley, insisted on ID that showed the address of the home, the man, who was black, began calling the officer, who is white, a “racist.”

The man does produce ID at that point. It does not show that he’s a resident at the home, however. The other man similarly cannot verify that he’s a resident either. The officer arrests both for trespassing, and then…

Oh, wait. That doesn’t make the point you were trying for. I see why you went with your version.

1. A difference of ‘class’ as opposed to a difference of race. “You sir, are nothing more than a ‘public servant’ while I am a Harvard Professor. Your station sir; is subservience!” Professor Gates believes his analysis of this situation is inherently superior just by comparing the difference of the parties ‘achieved’ stations in life.

2. As a member of a recognized, previously aggrieved race; Professor Gates’ belief is that he cannot possibly be anything other that the ‘wounded’ party here. Such a mindset almost automatically confers upon Professor Gates the ability to say absolutely anything he wishes. Any statements he makes cannot be racist because a minority cannot commit racism. They may voice the most revolting rhetoric with impunity, because they are just venting frustration at their perceived continued exploitation at the hands of the ‘white man’. In fact, one may actually state that such a system exists where the ‘aggrieved’ party may literally spin the vitriol to unimaginable heights, while the targeted party’s only choice is to accept all without any comment.

3. The conclusions reached in items one and two confers upon Professor Gates, in his own mind, that he cannot possibly over-step any boundary. His lofty status as a Harvard Professor, coupled with his membership in the most bona fide of victim’s groups; demands that he push the envelop in this confrontation. It has now become his job to ‘take down’ this white public servant and put him irrevocably in his proper place. So certain is he of his dual status, that he believes he will verbally browbeat this man into complete subservience.

A white police officer requiring identification from a black Harvard Professor on his own property! Truly a ‘teachable’ moment.