I think whenever you're discriminated against, it changes the tone."

Yes it does and Im sure Officer Crawley is relly peeved right now.  When are we gonna see justice.  Wait for it and we will die in the waiting room.

We haven't gotten around to it yet, though I'm sure Rahm's got it scheduled for sometime next year- that being "education reform". We know it's coming; benefitting large unions is number one on the Progressive platform. But I'm wondering just what we'll be teaching our children and grandchildren to become if the country remains dominated by Progressive thought.

We've got greedy bankers and stock traders. Stupid white-collar automobile executives incapable of designing vehicles that Americans want. Doctors would rather snatch the tonsils out of a kid with a minor cough than treat the child with OTC medication. Not much has been said so far, but obviously corporate heads for the major new-homes builders are greedy, economy-wreckers as well. The Progressive-way is to regulate activity and salary of anyone making a nice living. So, just what will our high schools and colleges be producing?

More sub-standard school teachers? Atheletes? Where's the incentive to be anything white-collar under this administration? Who want's to be a doctor that can't treat patients outside of the "prescribed and affordable treatment plan"? Who wants to land an executive position in any free-market corporation that may or may not fail at times? And now, who wants to be a police officer? 

Maybe the President should disarm our civil defense forces. Maybe if police officers were only allowed to roll up on an unknown person after a call for a potential break-in with only a handshake and a smile, all violent crime would suddenly cease to exist- much the way terrorism has all but vanished now that Mr. Apology has charmed them all into submission. /sarc off

Can we get come grown-ups back in the White House, please?

Oh, I know this post was about that goofball Harry Smith, but he's not worth commenting on.

I'd put Harry Smith in a police uniform and make him patrol the streets (on foot) of a predominately black neighborhood in Los Angeles at midnight. I wonder if he'd check his 'quota requirements' before drawing his pistol when trouble starts? Gotta be fair Harry... you putz.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

I wonder if Elizabeth offered to speak to Smith's mama outside.

You know, if I were "caught" breaking into my own home, the FIRST thing I would do is hasten to identify myself. What's racist about that?

Harry Smith is such a panty-waist.  Does he ever listen to himself? 

Listen to Harry talk about a guy who was asked to show his ID like the police turned a water cannon on him and then called him the n-word.  Then he sits there like a clown when Gates's daughter says "my father might be one of the last black men on earth who actually believed in the justice system."   as if there was some sort of kangaroo court trial held to convict her father.

Like father like daughter.  They both are reveling in all the racism swirling about them.  They are loving every minute of it.  The man picked a fight with a cop then cries racism when he gets cuffed.  

Hey Janet Napolitano...I'm proud to be a Right-winger.

If I had to break into my own home, and was confronted by the Police, I would carefully reach into my pocket and produce my ID. Then I would thank the officer for not just taking my word for it and for responding to protect my property.

After reading the police report, from both responders. It is clear that Gates was not very appreciative that the Police showed up at his residence at all. Furthermore, he showed an utter lack of respect and downright disdain toward the officer.

Having not been there, but read the report, and seeing the results of such, now snowballing out of control. I am going to have to say that an appology is definatly needed and should be rendered  immediatly to the OFFICER for the treatment and verbal abuse he recieved from a citizen he was there to protect.

I got locked out of my room.(went for ice)   When hotel security showed up the first thing they asked for was ID.  It was in the room and he made me show it right away.  Then he said  "Thank you sir and thank you for staying at Mandalay Bay " and turned and left.   That is precisely how easy it could have been for Prof. Gates.

" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him...."  -Sen. Jim DeMint

"You know, my father is a proponent of, you know, intellectualism can help you outrun the – the war on race."

Yes, he's a big intellectualist:

"When asked by Sergeant Crowley to speak with him outside the residence, Gates replied, "ya, I'll speak with your mama outside."

The heck with his heart, his head is already broken.

Listen to the black rap and the hot mic Jesse Jackson and then tell me there is an emotionally scarred black strawman.

If you read the police report, it's obvious that Gates' brain was broken, not his heart. The man acted like a boob and was treated accordingly.

My stepson went to a university to work on his Engineering degree. He had to take a class, a black history class no less...required you know to graduate. The course was written by the profesor, and the text book was written by the same professor..nice business if you can get it. Such a deal you know.

He was failed due to him writing a paper denouncing and proving what was taught to be fraudulent. He of course found out what most learn in college today; don't rock the boat, say what they say and you will get your grade.

When 96+% of certain people vote for the same man, you know that racism is in fact alive and well in our country. Unfortunately for those 96%+, it is them who are the racists. Every time I hear the word racism, my mind just closes down more to it. Now I just smile and go on my way.

Provoking then playing the victim, and the President backs it with the race card. When Barry referred to "we" meaning their race I was appalled.

An Author from the 1870's in Montana made this comment: “…in the beginning they (the Spanish) enslaved the Indian with hellish brutality. But they could not make a success of that because the Indian was different from the Negro; he was always a free man and would die rather than be a slave.”

The problem Blacks have with victimhood and legalism can only be solved by themselves. They've been accomodated for a long time. It is too bad the arrest didn't end up in Court.

Gates makes his living being an oppressed black man in a white society. Why is it that every university has to have a "Black Studies Program"? If you read the crap in the writings from people like Gates the language almost seems to be something besides English. It is rather like a new language and lexicon has been invented.

This POTUS committed slander and probably a hate crime. Where is his punishment?

You support the troops by supporting the mission! If you don't support the mission, have the guts to say you don't support the troops.

Obama: Not my President. Ever.

Sgt. Crowley was clearing doing his job properly, and Mr. Gates was in the midst of a hissy fit. The Sgt. was leaving when Gates came outside to continue berating the Sgt. without letup, in front of a crowd. This is disorderly conduct. This is interfering with a police investigation. It was the lawful arrest of a citizen who'd lost his temper and was unreasonably defying and abusing a police officer.

The D.A. didn't issue a charge. That only means he/she gave Gates a break, not that it was an unlawful arrest.

Harry Smith either didn't read the report, or he didn't understand what he'd read. Either way, he is a perfectly stupid progressive sycophant who should be fired for incompetence. He and Keith Olbermann could be the Huntley-Brinkley of MSNBC.

Gates doesn't just want an "apology" from the white officer, Gates wants the blood from his veins, Gates wants white people to disappear from planet Earth. What I want however, is for Harry Smith to remove his lips from Gates' ass.

This case is all about racial profiling. Two people participated in the racial profiling. The Professor and the President. Both used assumed data that they had collected over there lifetime about racial profiling and applied them to the WHITE officer.They didn't treat it as individual event instead they assumed the motive of the officer based on his shin color and proceed with out any facts to support their acts.

Is that not what they claim to stand for?

And if the roles were reversed with the label of racists apply? Just a simple question.

The statistical claim the president made about the prevelance of racial profiling; isn't that the same type of information that an officer knows about who commits crimes, yet is he supposed to ignore.

How is this different? 

They made an assumption based on the color of the man's skin. Thats racism. Your reply lessor Professor! 

                It really isn't fair. I want a race card too.I belong to a race of people, where is my card? Oh, I see, I can't have one besause I'm white! Take me away, officer.

The thing that is irritating me about this whole fiasco is the "he was arrested in his own home" thing.  Does this mean that we are to believe that no one should ever be arrested in their homes, especially if they're black? It's ridiculous !

Being in your home doesn't excuse you from illegal or inappropriate behavior; people are killed "in their own homes" every day. 

Gates has no respect for authority and he obviously hates white people.  Why else would he have thrown out the "your momma" phrase?  This is such sterotypical black behavior that he should be ashamed of himself. If he's educated and enlightened, he should no better than anyone how to act in public and dealing with law enforcement. Being black AND well known doesn't automatically exclude you from obeying the law. Or does it ?