Obama, Gates and Black Guilt

[cwo_ghwebb]

The situation in Cambridge, Mass., surrounding Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest has been analyzed and reanalyzed from nearly every angle. The character of police Sgt. James Crowley has been dragged through the mud, then polished, then dragged through the mud again.

But Gates has, for the most part, escaped scrutiny. At worst, he has been described as a racialist, a man who sees every aspect of American life through the lens of ethnicity. At best, he has been described (by racialist and full-fledged polysyllable-babbling idiot Michael Eric Dyson) as the "Rosa Parks of racial profiling.”

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Obama and Gates have a stake in pushing their vision of the universe. It benefits them -- they make fame and fortune from whites who seek to appease them by providing them opportunities vastly exceeding their qualifications. Their success, however, brings with it a certain cognitive dissonance: While Obama and Gates recognize that they have been successful through preferential treatment, they wish to see their success as a product of their own hard work. The obvious way to resolve this dissonance is to blame white society for its continuing racism. If America is a racist country, any handout is an entitlement rather than an act of charity. Thus, according to this logic, Obama and Gates deserved their success after all

Ben Shapiro : Obama, Gates, and the Problem of Black Guilt - Townhall.com

So very true.

[vraiblonde]

There's a tape of Gates talking to an interviewer for Booknotes - Hannity played it last night. He goes on at length about how his mother hated white people. Which, given her generation and experiences, isn't particularly shocking.

However, two things:

1. Gates made some race-victim statements before he was arrested, so it's pretty clear he buys into the "white people are the devil" mentality that his mother taught him.

2. If the Democrats can make a big deal out of some ancestor of Bush's that was a Nazi sympathizer, or whatever, certainly the opinions of this guy's *own mother* can be used to slap him with.

The race-baiters are trying to explain this away - that was his mother, not him, blah blah blah. But again, they have a habit of forgiving their own, even when they are former KKK members, and making a big deal out some fossil like Strom Thurmond. So screw them. Let 'em die by the sword.

[ImnoMensa]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

There's a tape of Gates talking to an interviewer for Booknotes - Hannity played it last night. He goes on at length about how his mother hated white people. Which, given her generation and experiences, isn't particularly shocking.

However, two things:

1. Gates made some race-victim statements before he was arrested, so it's pretty clear he buys into the "white people are the devil" mentality that his mother taught him.

2. If the Democrats can make a big deal out of some ancestor of Bush's that was a Nazi sympathizer, or whatever, certainly the opinions of this guy's *own mother* can be used to slap him with.

The race-baiters are trying to explain this away - that was his mother, not him, blah blah blah. But again, they have a habit of forgiving their own, even when they are former KKK members, and making a big deal out some fossil like Strom Thurmond. So screw them. Let 'em die by the sword.

IMO one of the greatest problems facing black Americans is that they are raised by people like Gates's mother.

The lessons taught them are deep seated and come out when placed under stress. Stress like Gates felt when a white oficer had the temerity to actually ask him to step out on the porch.