Presidential Racisim

President Barack Obama said Wednesday he didn't know what role race played in the incident [arrest of William Gates] but added that police in suburban Boston "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates even after he offered proof* that he was in his own home.

Obama said:"I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry**. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three - what I think we know separate and apart from this incident - is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately***, and that's just a fact."

He also said federal officials need to continue working with local law enforcement "to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias."

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Ah yes, and Gibbs says Obama was not calling the police stupid. Just more evidence that Obama’s presidency is not about healing racial divisions, but stirring them up. There is no evidence that this arrest was caused by profiling, indeed the very arrest report document indicates a charge of disorderly conduct, and that the conduct occurred after the initial incident, and that it took place outside the home.

Obama is stupidly blathering on about something he knows little about. Looks like Obama is the one engaging in racial profiling. This is just an excuse for him to advance his own political – not even agenda, but his own political bias. He’s still wanting reparations.

"Oh, magnificent Obama, we hang on your every word. Speak, Lord, for thy worshippers heareth. We long to drink in your opinion on anything that catches your attention, your every stray thought and passing impression; imprint upon us thy thought, thy feeling, thy very personhood."

What a skit for Saturday Night Live!

~Cato

So many *'s, So little time.

* Showing a drivers license with an address that matches the address of the home when you are being questioned, while an indica of possible ownership, does not prove that you own the home. Is the guy divorced from the wife, the one that may now own the home? Is he breaking in because he has intent to murder his spouse (who has locked him out)? Is he a renter? Has he sold the home and not yet changed the driver's license??? Sheeesh.

** No, most of us would NOT be pretty angry [at being asked to prove up who we were]. We would thank the police for being vigilant and responsive to reports of possible burglary to our homes, and laud them for their quick acts to make sure that it was not an unauthorized person (impostor) in our homes.

*** Disproportionately to what? Are there other disproportions that are disproportionate because of causal things other than the proportion?

~your little gadfly Seneca