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Posted By: Mongo Posted On: Jul 23, 2009 Views: 1457	Obama Race Card CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on racial profiling. Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming. "I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday. The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said. Obama has said the Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates last week when they responded to his house after a woman reported a suspected break-in. Crowley, 42, has maintained he did nothing wrong and has refused to apologize, as Gates has demanded. Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused, flew into a rage and accused the officer of racism. Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday. Gates' supporters maintain his arrest was a case of racial profiling. Officers were called to the home by a woman who said she saw "two black males with backpacks" trying to break in the front door. Gates has said he arrived home from an overseas trip and the door was jammed. Obama was asked about the arrest of Gates, who is his friend, at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night. "I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 — 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, and that's just a fact." In radio interviews Thursday morning, Crowley maintained he followed procedure. "I support the president of the United States 110 percent. I think he was way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts as he himself stated before he made that comment," Crowley told WBZ-AM. "I guess a friend of mine would support my position, too." Crowley did not immediately respond to messages left Thursday by the AP. The Cambridge police department scheduled a news conference for later Thursday. Gates has said he was "outraged" by the arrest. He said the white officer walked into his home without his permission and only arrested him as the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment. "This isn't about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," Gates said. He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman." The president said federal officials need to continue working with local law enforcement "to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias." Fellow officers, black and white, say Crowley is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout. Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, said he was troubled and upset over the incident. Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, who also is black, has said she spoke with Gates and apologized on behalf of the city, and a statement from the city called the July 16 incident "regrettable and unfortunate." The mayor refused Thursday to comment on the president's remarks. Police supporters charge that Gates, director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was responsible for his own arrest by overreacting. Black students and professors at Harvard have complained for years about racial profiling by Cambridge and campus police. Harvard commissioned an independent committee last year to examine the university's race relations after campus police confronted a young black man who was using tools to remove a bike lock. The man worked at Harvard and owned the bike. Nigger please.
Posted By: gunfever Posted On: Jul 23, 2009 Views: 1443	RE: Obama Race Card Man that professer is a pussy if i was him i would have grabbed thaf pussies gun and shot that lil qweer in the head **** nigga
Posted By: Guest Posted On: Jul 23, 2009 Views: 1435	RE: Obama Race Card And this has exactly what to do with DVD players exactly, you Mongoloid sack of ****?
Posted By: Mongo Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1433	RE: RE: Obama Race Card Made you read it, didn't I? I'm concerned that every time Obama opens his mouth lately, he sticks his foot in it and his poll numbers go down the more we know. I voted for the guy and I'm starting to think we got screwed. And was Mongoloid supposed to be an insult? As a half-Asian woman I'm hardly insulted. Better luck next time.
Posted By: Guest Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1430	RE: Obama Race Card No, I didn't read it. I never read the rantings of a lunatic. Go away you ****ing mongoloid.
Posted By: Mongo Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1428	RE: Obama Race Card Strangely, this was cut and pasted from the mainstream news- hardly "the rantings of a lunatic" but decidedly pro-Obama, but I guess anything that rocks your little world needs to be insulted and criticized. I feel sorry for you. So suck on this. More evidence that Obama needs to STFU on things he knows nothing about. I guess as a "community organizer", he thinks it's his job to inflame the situation and make it worse for everybody involved. But apologize for misspeaking? Nooooooo, ain't gonna happen- although it should before he loses his credibility altogether: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Supporters say the white policeman who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home is a principled police officer and family man who is being unfairly described as racist. Friends and fellow officers — black and white — say Sgt. James Crowley, who was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach recruits about avoiding racial profiling, is calm and reliable. "If people are looking for a guy who's abusive or arrogant, they got the wrong guy," said Andy Meyer of Natick, Mass., who has vacationed with Crowley, coached youth sports with him and is his teammate on a men's softball team. "This is not a racist, rogue cop." Gates accused the 11-year department veteran of being an unyielding, race-baiting authoritarian after Crowley arrested and charged him with disorderly conduct last week. Crowley confronted Gates in his home after a woman passing by summoned police for a possible burglary. The sergeant said he arrested Gates after the scholar repeatedly accused him of racism and made derogatory remarks about his mother, allegations the professor challenges. Gates has labeled Crowley a "rogue cop," demanded an apology and said he may sue the police department. President Barack Obama elevated the dispute when he said Wednesday that Cambridge police "acted stupidly" during the encounter. Obama stepped back on Thursday, telling ABC News, "From what I can tell, the sergeant who was involved is an outstanding police officer, but my suspicion is probably that it would have been better if cooler heads had prevailed." Crowley told a radio station Thursday that Obama went too far. "I support the president of the United States 110 percent," he told WBZ-AM. "I think he was way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts, as he himself stated before he made that comment." Obama noted that he and Gates are friends, and the sergeant said: "I guess a friend of mine would support my position, too." Crowley didn't immediately return a phone message left by The Associated Press on Thursday. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas, in his first public comments on the arrest, said Thursday that Crowley was a decorated officer who followed procedure. The department is putting together an independent panel to review the arrest, but Haas said he did not think the whole story had been told. "Sgt. Crowley is a stellar member of this department. I rely on his judgment every day," Haas said. "... I think he basically did the best in the situation that was presented to him." But Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, once the top civil rights official in the Clinton administration and now, like Obama, the first black to hold his job, labeled the arrest "every black man's nightmare." The governor told reporters: "You ought to be able to raise your voice in your own house without risk of arrest." Those who know the 42-year-old Crowley say he is committed to everyday interests like playing softball and coaching his children's youth teams. "I would give him my daughter to coach in a blink of an eye, and I can't say any stronger opinion than that," said Dan Keefe, a town parks official who knows Crowley from his work coaching youth swim, softball, basketball and baseball teams. Crowley grew up in Cambridge's Fresh Pond neighborhood and attended the city's racially diverse public schools. Two of his brothers also work for the police department and a third is a Middlesex County deputy sheriff. For five of the past six years, Crowley has volunteered alongside a black colleague in teaching 60 cadets per year about how to avoid targeting suspects merely because of their race, and how to respond to an array of scenarios they might encounter on the beat. Thomas Fleming, director of the Lowell Police Academy, said Crowley was asked by former Cambridge police Commissioner Ronnie Watson, who is black, to be an instructor. "I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming said.
Posted By: Mongo Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1425	RE: Obama Race Card Oh sure, NOW he's gonna STFU and stay out of it- after fanning the flames of racial bigotry- but apologige for opening his piehole in the first place? Don't hold your breath. He is one arrogant mother****er. I guess I can "hope" I can "change" my vote. Community Instigator, my ass. WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama is likely to stay out of a raging racism debate sparked by the arrest of a black Harvard scholar after his earlier comments triggered a firestorm, the White House said Friday. Obama told a press conference on Wednesday that he thought police in the Harvard university town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, had acted "stupidly" by arresting professor Henry Louis Gates, a presidential friend, for breaking into his own home. Obama, the nation's first African American president, has often avoided wading into the divisive issue of race. Asked if the US leader now regretted his words, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday he probably did regret providing a media distraction. "I think he would regret... if he realized that... how much of an overall distraction and obsession it would be, I think he would probably regret distracting you guys with obsessions," Gibbs said. And Gibbs added that from now on the president would most likely stay out of the debate. "I think he's said most of what he's going to say on it," he said. He also stressed that Obama "believes and understands just how hard a job law enforcement is, he has great respect for the men and women that keep us safe." Television news shows and blogs Thursday questioned whether Obama had made a mistake when he responded to the reporter's question about the arrest of Gates without knowing the details of the case. Gates, a preeminent scholar of African and African American studies at prestigious Harvard, was arrested on July 16 by Cambridge police while attempting to enter his own home. The professor was reportedly trying to force open his jammed front door when a neighbor called the police, believing the house was being broken into. Asked about the case Wednesday, Obama acknowledged "not having been there, and not seeing all the facts." "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," Obama said. Gates has alleged that his arrest was motivated by racism. But police sergeant James Crowley, who is white, says he only arrested the professor after he became disorderly and abusive. A veteran cop who teaches racial profiling to young police officers, Crowley may now bring a defamation lawsuit against the professor, Crowley's lawyer Alan McDonald, told ABC news. The Cambridge police union has said the arrest was 100-percent lawful and called for the president to apologize to Crowley. On Thursday Obama expressed surprise during an interview with ABC at the firestorm sparked by his remarks. "I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement because I think it was a pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who's in his own home," he said. "My suspicion is that words were exchanged between the police officer and Mr Gates and that everybody should have just settled down and cooler heads should have prevailed."
Posted By: gunfever Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1421	RE: RE: Obama Race Card **** both lil bitches that guy was a pussy for not shooting that cop the second he saw him and that lil biiitch obama is till a lil pussy for letting that **** cracka cop white bitch off **** nigga
Posted By: Mongo Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1419	RE: Obama Race Card Well, about ****ing time. You get the impression the only reason he's doing this is because continuing to ignore the uproar he caused would be bad for his poll numbers. WASHINGTON – Trying to tamp down an uproar over race, President Barack Obama said Friday he used an unfortunate choice of words in commenting on the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and could have "calibrated those words differently." The president said he had telephoned the white policeman who arrested Gates, and he said the conversation confirmed his belief that the officer was a good man and an outstanding officer. Obama said later that he had spoken to Gates as well, but he didn't say any more about that conversation. The president caused a stir when he said at a prime-time news conference earlier this week that Cambridge, Mass., police had "acted stupidly" by arresting Gates, a Harvard scholar and friend of the president's, for disorderly conduct. On Friday, Obama made an impromptu appearance at the daily White House briefing in an effort to contain the controversy. He said he continued to believe that both the officer, Sgt. James Crowley, and Gates had overreacted during the incident, but the president also faulted his own comments. "This has been ratcheting up, and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up," he 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 and Sgt. Crowley specifically. And I could've calibrated those words differently." The incident began when police went to Gates' home last week after a passer-by reported a potential break-in. It turned out that Gates had tried to jimmy open his own door, which was stuck, and there was no intruder. Gates protested the police actions and was arrested, although the charges have since been dropped. Before Obama's appearance Friday, a multiracial group of police officers stood with Crowley in Massachusetts and asked Obama and the state's governor, Deval Patrick, to apologize for comments they called insulting. Patrick has said Gates' arrest was "every black man's nightmare." Dennis O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, said Obama's remarks were "misdirected" and the Cambridge police "deeply resent the implication" that race was a factor in the arrest. Sgt. Leon Lashley, a black officer who was at Gates' home with Crowley at the time of the arrest, said he supported his fellow officer's action "100 percent." Gates has said he returned from an overseas trip, found the door jammed and he and his driver attempted to force it open. Gates went through the back door and was inside the house when police arrived. Police say he flew into a verbal rage when Crowley asked him to show identification to prove he should be in the home. Police say Gates accused Crowley of racial bias, refused to calm down and was arrested. Gates, 58, maintains he turned over identification when asked to do so. He says Crowley arrested him after the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment.
Posted By: Cunt Fever Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1418	RE: Obama Race Card While you, Mr. gunfever, are the biggest pussy on two legs. Even though you're on your knees most of the time, taking it up the ass from The Gayme while he donkeypunches you repeatedly on the head. Queer.
Posted By: gunfever Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1415	RE: Obama Race Card **** u lil fagit if i had ur address u would be on ur knees right before i put a hole in ur ****ing skull with my .45 u lil pussy bitch nigga ****
Posted By: Mongo-loid Posted On: Jul 24, 2009 Views: 1412	RE: Obama Race Card blah blah blah rant rave loony toony --insert cut and paste bull**** nobody cares about here-- blah blah whine bitch moan **** pants.
Posted By: gunfever Posted On: Jul 25, 2009 Views: 1407	RE: Obama Race Card **** u lil homo ass pussy bitch i aint whining bout **** ur the lil bitches too pussy to post ur addresses u fag bitches **** nigga
Posted By: Mongo Posted On: Jul 25, 2009 Views: 1401	RE: Obama Race Card Sorry, Mr. gunfever, this time I think he was talking to me. Sorry to rock both of your little worlds like that. Obviously thinking outside the box is not in the cards here.
Posted By: Mongo-loid Posted On: Jul 25, 2009 Views: 1399	RE: Obama Race Card Sorry but you never rock my world. Seeing a moron pasting articles onto a humor site in a forum about ****ty DVD players doesn't rock anyone's world. You also screwed up my supper. I went to my favorite Japanese restaurant and was just set to order Mongolian Beef and then I pictured you, with your big Mongoloid head, sitting there all slung over. The weight of your head being too much for your scrawny neck to hold up. I had to skip the Mongolian Beef and go with Tempura Shrimp. Bitch.

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