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Let’s Go to the Audio Tape
Maureen Dowd’s column today is about the Crowley-Gates affair. It’s thoughtfully written and makes several good points, but I want to zoom in on this part:
How can they ever reconcile their accounts? Crowley says he asked Gates to come outside and the professor replied, “Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside.” Gates wryly suggests Crowley got the line from watching “Good Times” as a child.
“Does it sound logical that I would talk about the mother of a big white guy with a gun?” he asked. “I’m 5-7 and 150 pounds. I don’t walk on ice, much less (expletive) with some cop in my kitchen. I don’t want another hip replacement.”
That line does sound a tad like a white guy’s idea of how a black man talks.
12 Responses to “Let’s Go to the Audio Tape”
Let it go…this topic will go away if people would just let it go. It's okay, your beloved Obama will survive this little mess.
Now it’s clear that he had a narrative in his head: A black man was inside someone’s house, probably a white person’s house, and this black man had broken and entered, and this black man was me. Henry Gates to The Root
Sounds like that black man had a pre-decided narrative in his mind about the white cop.
White I heard was that Crowley claimed Gates had to talk to his wife Weezy and than shouted Dyno-Mite.
Those damned conservatives keep bringing this up, so I must again write a post on why they are wrong to keep this on the front page!
“Does it sound logical that I would talk about the mother of a big white guy with a gun?” he asked. “I’m 5-7 and 150 pounds. I don’t walk on ice, much less (expletive) with some cop in my kitchen. I don’t want another hip replacement.”
Given that we've all seen the photo of him shouting at the top of his lungs in the middle of this incident, this seems a bit disingenous.
I disagree. Gates said something disrespectful and probably racist. Its pretty clear Gates thinks his sht don't stink. Gates is a black version of Sara Palin.
Gates is a racist and most especially an elitist but he sure picked the wrong cop to run this racket on. And Obama is showing himself to be as dumb as any conservative thought he was. Well, they dropped this load of crap and now they can sit in it. They as in Obama and Gates.
wow. a lot of people here know a lot about gates. tell me, when did you spend so much time with him to come to such drastic conclusions…? and how do you and only you know what really transpired?
Gates credibility is shot, the black police officer on the scence backing up Crowley's account pretty much buried Gate's victim card.
Gates is a black version of Sara Palin.
LOL One is a Harvard scholar and one is a JOURNALIST MAJOR WHO WENT TO FIVE MEDIOCRE SCHOOLS BEFORE SHE RECIEVED HER DEGREE…
Thanks Rudi…now I don't have to write it. Gates is a lot of the bad things that are written here…but he is also very well educated and quite intelligent….and he knows it…which is part of the problem.
In my experience, the truly brilliant educators are some of the most humble people you will ever meet.
In case you missed it on the other thread, here is a video of Gates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlIdFcWd5k&eurl…
Yo mama!