tailgater wrote:I won't open the link, but if you're trying to show there was racism in America pre-Obama, then yeah. I know.
And if you're trying to show that Obama was met with racist resistance. Again, Duh.
What I'm saying is that Obama not only did nothing to improve race relations, his words, actions and inaction has actually made it worse after 8 years.
As in the white "racist" cop involved in the "racist" arrest of Henry Gates, the black Harvard professor(and personal friend of Obama) who was arrested trying to break into a house(his own home as it turned out.) But while the cop gathered the info to determine that it was Gates' home, he was met with attitude and derision from Gates, he got aggravated and placed Gates into custody until he could gather the needed information without Gates'es (????) interference.
Without having any real information about the incident, other than it was a black man (and Friend of Obama) and a white cop, on July 22,2009, Obama was making statements like, " I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But 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. That's just a fact."
President Obama appeared unannounced at a White House press briefing on July 24, and said, "I want to make clear that in my choice of words I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically – and I could have calibrated those words differently." Also, that "I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home to the station. I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Professor Gates probably overreacted as well."
And then the "BEER SUMMIT"..............and then racially everything was......well, we all know how everything has been since then