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Okay, let me get this right, You are a well known personality, a 58 year-old black man who walks with a cane, probably highly noticeable indeed in your own all white neighborhood at midday,
you are sitting in a holding tank or wearing handcuffs at the police station for entering your house through the back door, and its all your fault , okaaaay, I got it
I would bet that this isn't the first time Dr. Gates has been hassled in that neighborhood by his neighbors or the police.
My dad always told me to be calm around police officers, be respectful, no matter what I thought about the situation, and say yes sir and no sir. If Gates had done that he could have taken his complaint up later in the press, or with the police, and most people would have had more sympathy for him.
Gates' personal affairs are his business and don't really have anything to do with this situation. I just have a hard time believe that a white Harvard professor would have been treated that way and being married to a large, black man I've seen the way the cops when they think you're being "uppity."
~ButterBrownBiscuit~
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Originally Posted by MovingForward
Gates has a reputation around these here parts as being a pompous pita. He's not a man I respect. He made his name trading on black women's history. Yet I knew two black women graduate students at Harvard who said that he, and the other black male professors in sociology and anthropology, treated black female graduate students like servants or were hitting on them all the time. He was married to a (white) woman for years, all the while carrying on an affair with a (black) woman. His wife kicked him out when the news broke. I don't know if he stayed with "the other woman." He's one of those good-ol'-boy "radicals" from the 60s who can't shut up about their supposed oppression, while they treat women like objects. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Gates egged on the officer. TOTALLY in keeping with his victim personality.
Gates' personal affairs are his business and don't really have anything to do with this situation. I just have a hard time believe that a white Harvard professor would have been treated that way and being married to a large, black man I've seen the way the cops when they think you're being "uppity."
~ButterBrownBiscuit~
Yes, his personal affairs are his own business. But they exhibit his disdain for women, as well as his obsession with race.
Are you suggesting that no white Harvard professor has ever been arrested?
Gates refused to step outside to speak with the officer, the police report said, and when Crowley told Gates that he was investigating a possible break-in, Gates opened the front door and exclaimed, "Why, because I'm a black man in America?" the report said.
"While I was led to believe that Gates was lawfully in the residence, I was quite surprised and confused with the behavior he exhibited toward me," he said, according to the report.
The report said Gates initially refused to show the officer identification, but eventually produced a Harvard identification card, prompting Crowley to radio for Harvard University Police.
Gates followed the officer outside and continued to accuse him of racial bias, the report said. After Crowley warned the professor twice that he was becoming disorderly, the officer wrote he arrested Gates for "loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space."
If the police report is to be believed, it sounds like the professor is just an a$$. The officer had a responsibility to investigate the call of a possible breakin. The prof cops an attitude, delays showing ID. Seems like a viable reason for suspiscion. Once he produces ID and the issue is resolved, he follows the cop outside and continues berating him. General d-bag, a few hours in jail serves him well.
Please feel free to provide examples of white Harvard professors being arrested for disorderly conduct in their own home. Or having neighbors call the police on them for B&E.
~ButterBrownBiscuit~
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Originally Posted by MovingForward
Yes, his personal affairs are his own business. But they exhibit his disdain for women, as well as his obsession with race.
Are you suggesting that no white Harvard professor has ever been arrested?
Okay, let me get this right, You are a well known personality, a 58 year-old black man who walks with a cane, probably highly noticeable indeed in your own all white neighborhood at midday,
you are sitting in a holding tank or wearing handcuffs at the police station for entering your house through the back door, and its all your fault , okaaaay, I got it
I would bet that this isn't the first time Dr. Gates has been hassled in that neighborhood by his neighbors or the police.
And I'll would bet that this isn't the first time that Gates has used the race card.
The A-hole is only a well respected highly placed member of the world's most prestigious university yet he screams "This is how a black man is treated in America!"
The university, like many other universities, develops a bogus program called African-American studies that he is the head of yet he screams "This is how a black man is treated in America!".
He should resign, he is a fossil and he is doing more harm than good
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