His nickname is "Skip" but it should've been "Chip".

I'm not imprssed with the guy.

I don't think he's as smart as he thinks he is.

And he's a racist.

And Clarence Thomas is a hypocrite how?  Because he was born black and he's conservative?   So just as Obama crapped on police officers, and doctors who he thinks may take tonsils out since there's more money in it than treating a sore throat, Gates's mindset craps on all black non-followers of the liberal Democrat religion.

I find Gates' speech to be entirely consistent with the drivel coming from leading academics in the fields of Black Studies and Women's Studies. There must be something I have missed entirely in my feeble attempt to at least understand what these programs are about. I find myself shaking my head when I read sentences like this: "Feminist psychoanalysis deconstructed the phallic hypotheses regarding the Unconscious," or "the new name "Africana studies" involved a theoretical elaboration of
the discipline of black studies according to African cultural
reclamation and disparate tenets in the historical and cultural issues
of Africanity within a professorial interpretation of the interactions
between these fields and college administrations." I have the impression these people have found a lucrative and circular way to study what and how they study.  Since those outside their world do not have even the vocabulary of the field, it is difficult to argue the worth of their programs (it would be like trying to argue with an ET), even if I wished to. Gates is just successful at this and appears to have needed a little boost to shine in the spotlight again.

         He did a good job stopping the "yo mama" jokes, didn't he. He thinks Clarence Thomas was an " uncle tom". And this guy works at Harvard? No wonder the country is in the shape it's in. Does obama think the same way? I hope not cause that would make him an "uncle tom".

I couldn't get through the whole speech - kept getting distracted looking for a teleprompter.

But I am curious.  Was Gates able to squeeze in an insult directed at Clarence or Newt's mama?

Even those who are best positioned in life to get beyond the stereotypical racist roles fail to do so as in Gates case and in Obama's case and in Wright's case.  Harry Belafonte should be a beacon and he is little more than a small candle leading down into the moldy basement of our lives.

You all are failures.  Failures to yourselves and to those who suffered to get you to where you are now.  And you are failures in lifting those who could use some of the hope you could provide.

Damn you all!

"His DNA showed that only half of Gates' ancestry was African. The rest were apparently European."

http://www.slate.com...

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His father, Henry Louis Gates Sr., nicknamed
"Heinie," was so light-skinned he could pass for white.

http://listserv.kent...

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"I definitely have something called the U Neill Haplotype on my father's
sign, which means I'm related to 8% of all the men in Ireland. "

http://newsblaze.com...

With all this evidence popping up about professor Gates, I expect that by Wednesday Obama will be insisting that this isn't the Professor Gates he knew.

And the MSM will applaud his candor!!!

two random thoughts on all of this

1. What a disservice Gates did to all black people - even if you are a Harvard professor, as a black man, your first instinct when confronted is a "yo mama" joke - well if he did not help perpetuate a stereotype there then I don't know what he did

2. The media and the left today like to demonize insurance companies and banks and traders and those sorts of industries because they don't produce a "product" like a manufacturer does - but this guy is to be viewed as a success?  what has he "produced" other than complaints about whitey?  how much has he contributed to society, his job is to be a big old complainy face - thats it

 I hate the New York Times more than it hates the US Military