回复：教授与警察与总统 - 只能/会发生在美国的“争论”(图)

I do not see why the NYTs states this story is getting more complex. It is simple: Call a policeman a racist as soon as you see him, slur his Mother, and discount his warnings that you are making a disturbance in public after several attempts by him to tone you down and see what happens, regardless of what color you are. Mr. Gates was the one who acted stupidly, not the police. And let us not forget that among the police present at the time of the arrest was an African-American officer. Was he racist too? And the rubric of "Many say what happened to Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a common, if unacknowledged, reality for people of color" is completely absurd. What happened to Mr. Gates was that he could not control himself and turned what could have been handled quickly into his going to jail because his thinking is tainted by assumptions and anger. If instead of getting on his high horse he would have politely thanked the policeman for looking after his welfare as a homeowner this would not have happened. If the policeman abused him verbally or otherwise this would be a different story, but no one, including Mr. Gates has stated this was the case. There were witnesses. There is a police report. Read it. There was one person who was out of line. That person got arrested. It was a righteous arrest. That there have been, and will be, unrighteous arrests is not relevent because the police acted properly here. Every time a person of color is arrested is not an act of racism. If this story shows us anything it is that education is no barrier to ignorance, and that ignorance and bias permeates our society. Ignorance can rear its ugly head in any venue. No one is above the law, regardless of station or color. Mr. Gates, you just cannot yell at cops when they warn you to quit or risk arrest. Mr. Gates, it was not your color that got you arrested, it was your behavior.

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• where is this "public" place? Inside ones own home? -Stillh2orundeep- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/25/2009 postreply 06:22:50