So a President, a Cop and a Professor Walk into a Bar!
So a president, a cop, and a professor walk into a bar…
Wasn’t last night’s meeting sort of a like the beginning of one of those old ethnic jokes. Ok not a joke, more like a weird analogy that is supposed to have some type of deeper moral meaning, except you can’t really tell what it is because all of the participants are intoxicated.
Usually those jokes end with the least powerful ethnic person, (usually the darkest skinned person) with a proverbial piece of pie on their face. But in this scenario the least powerful person was a white police officer! Talk about a change. (Did you see that they tried to balance the equation out by bringing Vice President Joe Biden into the discussion. )
I’m glad President Obama had the guts to talk about this issue. But if we are really going to solve the lingering oppression that continues to impact society we are going to have tackle this issue systematically. Structural racism is embedded in America’s DNA. Beers in the White House garden just ain’t going to cut it.
I know that it will be a tough conversation, but I think most Americans are ready to be grown ups about it. Well, maybe not Glenn Beck.
Check out what the League’s Khari Mosley had to say about this issue. He was interviewed by a Pittsburgh television station about Gates’ arrest, and he had some very insightful (some would say controversial) comments.
I think the cop actually deserves more credit than he is getting. it takes a big person to sit down and talk with someone after they call you a racist.
There were at least two racists at the Beer Summit, and neither of them had dark skin. This was not an issue of racism until Obama made it one by calling the Cambridge police department stupid for daring to arrest one of his racist friends.
I meant to say that neither of the racists at the Beer Summit had white skin. Obama and his left wing professor friend were the only racists involved in this controversy.
Everyone associated with this drama was fighting his own prejudices. Gates against the percieved white establishment, Obama against an assumed injustice of police against the black man…and the cop who is just plain tired of people who will not respect the law enough to cooperate. This is life and we as humans have to learn to overcome our flesh and human pride to treat each others with respect.
This whole issue is over pride…the cop was just doing his job..pride prevented Gates from simply identifying himself to the officer and let his emotions get him locked up by shooting his mouth off. Can you imagine the fallout if the real Gates and his wife were tied up in the bedroom and the man having a tantrum was a psychopath who got his way and the cops left only to come back to a murder scene later?? The cop was doing his job and if he came to my house I would certainly want him to be sure I was the authentic homeowner.. Folks…the law is not perfect..nor the Govt…the only perfect man died on a cross for us… like it or not we need to respect and cooperate with the law and our leaders, and learn to battle our own judgement of others and there would be real headlines like, “nobody got shot today”.
Prejudice is a human condition and a part of all of us! We all practice it every day and every time we point the finger at others. The world will only begin to be a better place when we ecept our short comes and really WANT to work together DISPITE our differences. Until we can rejoice in them they we tear us appart! People have to want to get allong before they can. I have had it in my face a number of times in my life and it always make me sick to my soul, and I’m not dark!
Peace
I am sick and tired of Americans, always blurring the issues at hand with “ifs” and “what ifs”. This is same reason we lost Vietnam. I think every man, woman and child in America needs to a good long tour of duty in Afghanistan or Iraq. And that will get their priorities straight. I guess the President should have chose wine and a Native American, Chinese American, Mexican American, etc along with law enforcement from every color too. Where will end? IF the media had found 2 months from now the a friend of the President got wrongfully detained by local law enforcement and he did not respond on the issue, someone would be on blog or CNN asking why the President did not address the situation. We are in the worst economic and social situation in the history of our nation and people are still making a big deal about “racial issues”. We can debate “racism” until Doomsday and it will not solve the problem at hand. Which is the fact that a human is the worst thing to happen in history of planet. Well nothing is gonna stop me from taking over the world. I say, “Let them all starve and let the aliens sort out the bones in space!” “COBRAAAA!”
[...] Jarrett praised Van Jones for his “creative ideas.” Like Jones, Baker is obsessed with race. He wrote, “Structural racism is embedded in America’s DNA” and insisted Henry Louis Gates was “being [...]
[...] Jarrett praised Van Jones for his “creative ideas.” Like Jones, Baker is obsessed with race. He wrote, “Structural racism is embedded in America’s DNA” and insisted Henry Louis Gates was “being [...]