All during the Obama campaign the Right made a big point of his Majesty's past associations; Bill Ayers and especially Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The key assertion of the conservatives what that these associations gave one a looking glass into the true soul of Obama, his predispositions, true feelings and biases. We know that didn't work with the KoolAid drinking faithful, nor did it seem to sway enough independents. Now, with Obama in office, the light is starting to shine through the cracks in his shell. We will ultimately see the real Obama, because it takes too much work and energy to maintain his facade. I only hope it happens in time.
Take the case of Henry Louis Gates Jr., a prominent Harvard Black Studies professor. He has had a much publicized dust up with a policeman from the Cambridge police department, officer Crowley. I don't know, call me stupid, but I tend to respect police, their job responsibility and I will ALWAYS give them the benefit of the doubt in disputes with "perps". As I read this Cambridge incident, you can get the details from The Smoking Gun website, Gates is just another black man unwilling to let racial equality express itself. He will never respect a white man in authority. He always has a beef and he will always have a "chip on his shoulder". Otherwise he's out of a job. Sadly, this man, along with other notables like his colleague Cornel West, teach the same distrust and suspicion they harbor against whites to their students, forever widening the chasm between blacks and whites, rather than shrinking it. Someone should make the incredibly funny Chris Rock video required reading for Harvard Students. If you haven't seen it please go to it below.
Enter Obama, who comes out incredulously with "I don't know all the facts"......"but the police acted stupidly" comment. Does this bit of Freudian speech by Mr. Obama tell you his true feelings? Even Bill Cosby freaked out. Seems Obama has a clear disposition to doubt the police even without the facts....kinda like a Mr. Ayers or a Reverend Wright wouldn't you say? Obama's anemic press secretary, Robert Gibbs, comes out the following day with a feeble retraction like; "we didn't mean to say the policeman was stupid". Really? Could have fooled me. Muted retraction aside, Obama managed to draw the ire of police organizations across the nation for his bigoted suspicion of the events he knew nothing of. He has reinforced the notion that all black men are immune from suspicion simply because they are black and are a protected class. How does Mr. Obama's biased analysis help keep our inner cities safe and our policemen safe too? Things will be a little dicier on the streets from now on.
As time passes, we ll see more of Obama's true colors. I believe that Obama really did attend a lot of Reverend Wright's most caustic and bigoted sermons and that they had a great impact on him. As the evidence mounts I don't think Obama can escape his well disguised biases and will ultimately alienate the independents that put him in power. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole Cambridge, Gates and Crowley incident doesn't shave another five points off his approval rating in the upcoming weeks. You can't change the leopard's spots.
2 comments:
It's only a matter of time...
I'm sure the media will spin it that the cop is a racist and Obama had every right to say what he said. When was the last time a President of the USA called an officer of the law stupid?
Ryan-I hope against hope that Obama doesn't escapte this one. Too much is out now for it to be repaired. I think the admin folks will just wait out the news cycle without saying much.
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