Much Ado About a Lot

Much Ado About a Lot
Pertinent and telling news of late:

It seems our president is something less than confident in suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous reporters.

When bolstered by his trusty teleprompter in prepared speeches, he’s just fine and oh, so articulate.

Faced with the prospect of speaking sans script, as in interviews and press conferences, he either puts his foot in his mouth at the interviews, such as comparing his bowling expertise with those of Special Olympians, or at press conferences where he called Cambridge, MA. cops stupid, he now limits interviews to good buddies and has suspended press conferences entirely.

Of course, ABC covered for him with “Obama had five news conferences at the White House last year, one more than President George W. Bush had in his first year in office.”

His last scheduled meeting with the press was held almost 6 months ago when, unscripted and uninformed, he ripped into Sgt. Joe Crowley for “acting stupidly” by doing his job and arresting Black race-baiter Prof. Louis Gates and then had to make amends by hosting a White House beer blast for the two antagonists: http://bit.ly/6tuaUJ

Talk about acting stupidly!

Here your president shows his true colors by strutting ahead to meet the press after that tete-a-tete while the stupid sergeant escorts the disabled Gates down the White House steps: . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1426)

"My Mother Hated White People"

“My Mother Hated White People” and Other Revelations about Professor Skippy Gates

It’s said that the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree, meaning the obvious that lots of walnuts and pecans end up on the ground, and sometimes meaning the less obvious about people.

In a 1994 interview about his book, Colored People, Professor Henry Louis Gates freely conceded that “My mother hated white people.”

That’s not to suggest, necessarily, that she passed down those feelings to her sons. Then, again, he was devoted to his mom, who also was a big fan of Black supremicist/White-hater, Malcolm X: http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1220.

Gates also mentions in that interview that his nickname was Skip, that he and his family just loved the old Amos and Andy television series despite its Black stereotypes, and that his first wife was a white girl, Sharon Lynn Adams, which relationship all but brought about WWIII in the Gates’ household.

Now, what conclusions can we reasonably draw from those tidbits about Prof. Gates as they relate to his contretemps 15 years later with Sgt. James Crowley?

We can draw absolutely no conclusions, or we can conclude quite a number of things depending on our capacity for tidbit interpretation.

If Prof. Gates has learned anything in his nearly 59 years, from his mammy or from reality, it has been to keep his mouth shut when to open it would display his true, bigoted racial attitudes. Some have termed such attitudes, “blackitude,” referring to the ‘tude shown when blacks are feeling most repressed.

Prof. Gates vividly demonstrated his blackitude when a protective but white, Cambridge cop tried to do his duty after a report of possible burglary at Gates’ home. His charges of racism and racial profiling were both unfounded and reactionary, very possibly a reaction based on his mom’s detestation of all things white.

None of this is new news among dedicated and professionally “repressed” minorities in America.

What those professionals will think of the now-confirmed Obama scheme to turn down the volume of the racial uproar he pumped up with his infamous “stupidly” remark by staging a White House Obama-Gates-Crowley beer detente is unknown.

Another unknown is their reaction to the most recent revelation that Crowley and Gates are “cousins.”

Yep, it’s true, according to Gates. He discovered his personal Kunta Kinte of Roots fame in, of all places, the wee country, the Olde Sod, Ireland: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1.

If true, since he doesn’t look very Irish, it’s apropos that the erudite, nutty professor found his roots in the Land of Saints and Scholars. Now he and Sgt. Crowley, who does look Irish, will have something to gab about over that beer with their fellow part-Irishman, Barack Obama.

Gates’ late mom must be rolling over in her grave . . .

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The Prez Calls the Sarge

Obama Calls Crowley. Freddy the Fly on the Wall’s Perspective

(The following is not substantiated. It is simply the as yet unverified report of Freddy, a fly on the wall in the Oval Office who has not yet been swatted and smushed by Obama. Freddy, fortunately, kept detailed notes on the president’s phone call to Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge, MA police force. BHO=Obama, SGT=Crowley.)

BHO: Hey, Jimmy-boy. How ya doin’?

SGT: Who is this?

BHO: It’s your president, stu . . . umm, Sergeant!

SGT: The PBA president? You don’t sound like him.

BHO: No, no, no, it’s Barack Obama!

SGT: Oh. Who put you through to me and how did you get my number, anyway? It’s unlisted.

BHO: (Laughs) We have our ways, Jim. We have our ways. (Laughs again)

SGT: Whatever. What’s on your mind, Mr. President, why are you calling me?

BHO: Well, to explain things, Jimbo. I didn’t want you to get the wrong impression from what I said the other night . . . I didn’t want you to think I was calling you stupid. . . .

SGT: First, sir, please don’t call me Jimbo. Even my mom doesn’t call me Jimbo. But who then were you calling stupid? The whole Cambridge police force? And in front of a national audience on tv?

BHO: No problemo, Jim, don’t be so hot-headed . . .

SGT: Please call me sergeant, Mr. President. I worked hard to get this rank.

BHO: Umm, yeah, right, Senator Boxer said something like that to a general a while back.

SGT: I wouldn’t know. I don’t follow politics much.

BHO: Okay, I hear ya sergeant. I guess ya didn’t vote for me either? (Laughs)

SGT: Why would you say that, sir?

BHO: Well, as I said, we have our ways . . . of finding out stuff. Gibbsie told me most cops didn’t, that is, except for black cops. And you’re not black, right?

SGT: No sir.

BHO: Well, I guess you didn’t vote for me.

SGT: No comment. But, Mr. President, I’m sure you’re a busy man and I have a tee time in an hour. I hate to rush you . . .

BHO: Gotcha, sergeant, I won’t keep you long but I’m not really very busy.

SGT: Thank you, sir.

(Long pause)

SGT: Sir?

BHO: Yup?

SGT: Why did you call me? I think I heard you loud and clear on national television.

BHO: Well, we can’t always believe what we hear, sarge . . .

SGT: Please call me sergeant.

BHO: Yeah, right . . . Well, I called to set things straight. You do know the Black Congressional Caucus is supporting me and what I said at the health care news conference?

SGT: Yes, and so is Al Sharpton. So?

BHO: Well, I was just trying to show you that things aren’t always so black and white, ya know? I wanna be the president of all the people and I don’t want any hard feelings over all this. You know what I’m saying?

SGT: I do, sir. I’m not that stupid. May I speak frankly?

BHO: Sure, sergeant! I always want transparency and frank talk gets that done.

SGT: Thank you. Well, I just don’t understand you. Leon, that’s Sgt. Leon Lashley, a black guy, by the way, was on the scene when this thing with Professor Gates occurred and he fully corroborates my account of what happened. I just don’t get why you jumped the gun and ripped me and my department when you admitted you didn’t know all the facts and furthermore what you said seemed to have racial overtones since I’m white and the professor is black. It made it seem that it was racial for me to enforce the law . . .

BHO: Whoa! Now you sound like one angry man, sergeant!

SGT: No, I’m not angry. I’m pissed that the president of the United States would go off half-cocked on a local matter you knew nothing about! After all, is that presidential?

BHO: Now, you excuse me, sergeant, please don’t question my presidentiality. Professor Gates is a friend of mine . . .

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Sgt. Crowley's Unhappy Learning Experience

Sergeant Crowley Does His Job and Is Vilified for It!

A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.
Police.
Ah!
Sergeant & Police.
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done,
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one, happy one.

Pirates of Penzance


Gilbert and Sullivan could have told Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge, MA, Police Department that his “lot is not a happy one,” but Crowley probably already knew that. He certainly knew it after properly investigating a suspected burglary on the afternoon of July 16th.

Acting on a report of a witness who saw ”two black males with backpacks” apparently breaking and entering a private home on Ware Street, Crowley did his assigned duty and sought to question one of the men. It ended up with his arresting the suspect for disorderly conduct.

The rest, as they say, is history, one more incident involving a black man, a white cop, and charges of racism against the cop for simply doing what he gets paid to do. This particular incident has taken on the trappings of a major brouhaha since the suspect turned out to be “renowned black scholar,” Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.

Adding to the farce, black comedian Bill Cosby felt it incumbent to throw in his two cents, at first expressing his shock that the black president of the United States saw fit to jump into the fray during a health care news conference. (Cosby later retracted his shock.)

One must assume the matter somehow qualified as a health care issue.

The president admitted he didn’t know all the facts yet nevertheless saw fit to condemn the Cambridge P.D. and, by inference, Sgt. Crowley, for acting “stupidly” in performing their duty.

He then launched into a mini-diatribe on race relations, saying, “There’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact:” http://bit.ly/PFluz. (That link includes a video featuring Crowley.)

After it all hit the fan, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs semi-retracted Obama’s “stupidly” comment by saying, “Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid.”

Of course not! It’s just the Cambridge P.D. he was calling stupid. That, too, is a fact.

Now, far be it from me to impugn the chief executive’s motives in calling anyone stupid. Nor would I dare question his manufacturing charges of racial profiling from a minor incident about which he knew next to nothing; he has a penchant for such things.

It struck me, though, that with all the problems on the nation’s plate right now, Obama still felt the need to stupidly and baselessly lambaste some cops.

The fact the matter involved a black may have played a part.

Anyway, the outraged Prof. Gates, who had noisily and verbally abused Sgt. Crowley and who . . .

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