Politiks As Usual: In The News 5/17/10

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Boston Cop 'Apologizes' For Calling Henry Louis Gates "A Banana Eating Jungle Monkey"

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Not only does this idiot hire a lawyer, but he uses the lame "some of my best friends are Black" defense. But then bigots have never been known for having brains.

Boston Cop Calls Henry Louis Gates Jr. A "Jungle Monkey"

If the Boston police department has any guts they'll fire the guy:

A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as "banana-eating" and a "bumbling jungle monkey" has been placed on administrative leave and faces losing his job.

Officer Justin Barrett, 36, who is also an active member of the National Guard, sent an e-mail to some fellow Guard members, as well as the Boston Globe, in which he vented his displeasure with a July 22 Globe column about Gates' controversial arrest.

The columnist, Yvonne Abraham, supported Gates' actions, asking readers, "Would you stand for this kind of treatment, in your own home, by a police officer who by now clearly has no right to be there?"

In his e-mail, which was posted on a local Boston television station's Web site, Barrett declared that if he had "been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent noncompliance."

Barrett used the "jungle monkey" phrase four times, three times referring to Gates and once referring to Abraham's writing as "jungle monkey gibberish."

He also declared he was "not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers."

According to a statement from Boston police, Commissioner Edward Davis took action immediately upon learning of Barrett's remarks, stripping the officer of his gun and badge. Barrett is "on administrative leave pending the outcome of a termination hearing."

No doubt the police-can-do-no-wrong, racism no longer exists, "you can't speak that way to copy" jerks on the Far Right will stay silent on this one.

Colin Powell: I've Been Racially Profiled "Many Times"

HuffPo:

In an interview with CNN's Larry King, former Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that both the Cambridge police and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates were to blame for last week's incident.

Saying he has suffered from racial profiling "many times," the general suggested that Gates could have handled the situation differently. He urged young people confronted by the police to "cooperate. Don't make the situation more difficult."

Powell later added, "Do you get angry? Yes. Do you manifest that anger? You protest, you try to get things fixed, but it's kind of a better course of action to take it easy and don't let your anger make the current situation worse.

Glenn Beck Shows Once Again Why He Should Be Fired

Listen, I love FOX News. I'm elated that there's alternative to the liberal media's biased and often creepy lovefest with Barack Obama. I'm glad that FOX kills in the ratings and continues to leave its competitors in the dust no matter what they say. But Glenn Beck has proven time and time again that he's an idiot gasbag who has no idea what he's talking about and here's another one of them. Say what you want about Barry speaking too soon on the Henry Louis Gates racial profiling incident, but calling the President a "racist" is just stupid. Beyond stupid.

911 Tapes Seem To Prove That Henry Louis Gates Jr. Was A Victim Of Racial Profiling

Many on the Far Right, who are always pro-cop and believe that racism no longer exists (despite evidence to the contrary), have been out in force showing their support for Sgt. James Crowley in the recent Henry Louis Gates Jr. racial profiling brouhaha. However, new evidence has come out showing that Crowley may in fact be a liar.

The tapes from a 911 call by Lucia Whalen, the woman who called in, are out and they don't make Crowley look good at all. Whalen did not mention "Black men," in fact she said that the intruders looked "kind of hispanic." Crowley even goes so far as to say that "the gentleman says he resides here but is uncooperative." Then too, Gates is described, in a call to Harvard police, as having given his name and ID to Crowley. None of this is helpful to Crowley's account of what transpired.

But the coup de grace could be the fact that Whalen denies Crowley's assertion in his police report that he spoke to her. Whalen's attorney said "[Whalen n]ever once in any of her statements, conversations, and so forth did she ever use the word black....But more importantly, when Sergeant Crowley got there, she didn't have a conversation with him at all."

The more that comes to light about Gates-gate, the more anybody can see how Gates was a victim of racial profiling. With that said, it's even more ironic now that Gates would accept Barry's invite to sit down with Crowley for a beer later this week.

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Obama Regrets His 'Stupidly' Description Of Gates Arrest

While I still find that Prof. Gates was a victim of racial profiling, Barry knows now that he went too far in sticking his nose in this matter. Granted, racial profiling continues to be a problem in this country esp. when it comes to law enforcement and people of color. And I'm glad that Prof. Gates is going to continue to talk about his incident as well as racial profiling in this country in general. That needs to happen. But Barry wasn't there and considering how much 5-0 is lining up to throw darts at him, he probably would've been better off saying nothing in the first place.

Obama: Police Who Arrested Professor Gates 'Acted Stupidly'

CNN.com:

President Obama said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man's home.

"I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played," Obama said Wednesday night while taking questions after a White House news conference.

Cambridge authorities dropped disorderly conduct charges against Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Tuesday.

Obama defended Gates on Wednesday night, while admitting that he may be "a little biased," because Gates is a friend.

"But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 ... that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately."

The incident, Obama said, shows "how race remains a factor in this society."

Gotta give Barry credit on this one. For a guy whose done more to support his gay electorate than his black groupies during his presidency, one would think that Barry's blatant disregard of issues affecting the Black community would be somewhat troubling to even his Black followers by now. Indeed, a few Obama stans on the Left have begun to bravely criticize Barry. And good for them. Mere coincidence then that Barry comes out and forcefully condemns the actions of police officers arresting a black man for "breaking into" his own home? Who knows. But either way, Barry did the right thing in speaking out against the racial profiling of Professor Gates arrest. Respect due.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Quote of the Day!

"A fundamental part of Lincoln's moral compass was his opposition to slavery. But it took him a long time to embrace black people. We were raised with a fairy tale representation that because he hated slavery, he loved the slaves. He didn't. He was a recovering racist. He used to use the N word. He told darky jokes. He resisted abolition as long as he could. But in the end, he was on an upward arc, one that was quite noble."

- historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Abraham Lincoln's complex feelings toward Black people