Last Thursday a close friend to President ObamaHenry Louis Gates Jr was trying to break into his home after he returned from a 20 hour flight from China. He and his chauffer were trying to get in when someone called the police to say that " two Black men with backpacks" were breaking in. Louis Gates gets in the cops come and accuse him of breakign in. Gates gets pissed off that his ID and pictures of his family on teh walls arent enough to prove he lives there. they get him outside and then arrest him for disorderly conduct i.e. being angry at the cops for arresting him.
At first, I think Obama was enraged. When you are Black and have money sometimes I guess people think its a get out of racism free card and that their money will somehow end it all. What an infurating surprise. Obama calls the act "stupid" which is at least a comment on it. Now, he has offered to have a beer with the racist who arrested his friend. It is obvious Obama has been coached to apologize. He weighed in on his wealthy and white police officers and racists who got Obama the White House. Now he has all but retracted his intiail statement. I think we can see its not the president who is pulling the strings. Its the bosses and the banks- who have no problem with minorities ( even a few wealthy ones) being accosted.
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Yeah. I was a bit shocked when Obama used the phrase that the cops "acted stupidly" by arresting someone in their own home. I thought: no-one in power EVER criticizes the police in this country, they are treated like royalty, even when they mess up.
I noticed a few days after the incident that the police, the professor and the city, jointly put out a statement saying no-one was to blame. Then Obama made his "stupidly" comment and tick, tick, tick, eventually he had to come back and say he was sorry, that he went too far. The last thing we need is people criticizing the police when they act stupidly.
So I guess, the next time any of us are arrested for entering our own homes, we'll have to make a statement that the police acted "sensibly" in doing so.
Our last real president was Jimmy Carter. Every president since has been bought and paid for. In public office for only a few short years and Obama is already stale and corrupt, beholden to his party masters.
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