Stanley Fish, for the NYT, is taking the whole racism matter to a completely new level:
What was a black man doing living in a place like this?
and:
It isn’t the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate that’s the problem for the birthers. The problem is again the legitimacy of a black man living in a big house, especially when it’s the White House.
and:
Gates and Obama are not only friends; they are in the same position, suspected of occupying a majestic residence under false pretenses. And Obama is a double offender. Not only is he guilty of being Housed While Black; he is the first in American history guilty of being P.W.B., President While Black.
Really, the biggest problem with an African-American president or any African American in a position of power, is that liberals will constantly allude to his race and to situations involving similar blacks in problematic situations and claim that it was all because of the race, regardless of the circumstances.
Of course, I am not claiming that the police officer was not racist, but Gates’ attitude towards the cop did not help either. I know a lot of colored people who live in high-end neighborhoods. Some of them have had problems because of their race, but, generally, it can resolved with a simple conversation.
But, no, Gates couldn’t do just that. He’s a recipient of the ‘MacArthur fellowship, the so called “genius award;”’ he’s the ‘Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.’
Bow down and prostrate to Master Gates. Cops included.
Now, regardless of any friendship or race or situation, the President of the United States should NOT have the time or the interest to personally bail out friends from jail. And, then have the time to apologize for his mistake. Come on – he should be out fixing our burst faucet of an economy.
Further, I don’t think it’s a simple matter of just helping a friend. Obama is sending a clear message to his detractors:
Mess with my friends or try to dig up my shady Chicago past and you will face the wrath of the POTUS.
It didn’t help Nixon, but he was a Republican. Obama could probably publicly spank the cop and be praised in the media for it.
