Harvard Professor Gates arrested at HIS OWN home

Race? Disorderly conduct? More likely police misconduct How easy to hide a misbehaving officer behind the heroes who do their job every day. Sure the officer was doing his job when he arrived at Dr. Gates home but once he was there he forgot for whom he was working. The officer is employed by the public. Which other employees are allowed to mistreat their employers? As soon as Dr. Gates identified himself, the authority was only his not the officer's. From that moment on, the officer was speaking to his employer and owed him all the respect afforded to him. We must not forget that police officers receive their temporary authority from the public; and that authority always belongs to the public. When the officers forget that basic premise, they begin to believe that they are the law... or worse that they are above the law.

There is a lesson in here, apologizing to the ungracious is not particularly productive. Obama over stated his support for Dr. Gates (almost every comment I’ve read in the last 2 days has also been overstated one way or another). So far as I can tell no one knows who baited who here, yet there is an amazing amount of certitude. At least Obama seems to know that he doesn’t know. This shows a level of maturity not commonly found on the internet.

Oh yes , it was definitely racist.

I remember at the gym one day I was working out next to a what man who was talking to his black trainer, telling him he was not at all prejudiced against any person or color except for Jews because he felt a Jew had cheated him once. (I wonder how much was actual truth and how much was his expectation). Not that there aren't some cheating Jews out there but there are cheats of all colors and persuasions. Being married to a Jew, I was furious (one because he had the nerve to make a statement like that next to a total stranger whom he knew nothing about and two because what he was saying was total bullshit...the guy was a racist) and I stopped my workout and let him have it.

I DO NOT THINK I AM RACIEST BUT I JUST THINK THE SAME COLOR SHOULD BE TOGETHER

Let's face it. According to a book on slavery and race. interracial relationships is a bitter past for black men. Our communities are in disarray and black folks are on this site worrying about sleeping with White folk.

Sotomayor: A Black Man's View

Republican Senators, most of them, make much of Sotomayor's ... "wise Latino woman..." statement and, of course, their numerous citing of the New Haven case: one wherein Sonja Sotomayor and a panel of 2nd Circuit Judges upheld existing law related to Affirmative Action, but were reversed by the USSC. The reversal was seen as striking down policies in employment that favored minorities, but was seen by many Anglos as introducing a bias against whites. The USSC reversal, therefore, becomes a victory for white males in particular, and conservatives in general.
This term was first put out there by the Re-thug-licans favorite racist drug addict, Rush Limpdick.
Now it seems to have caught on like that late '80's saying, "gag me with a spoon."
Everybody is talking about Reverse Racism now a-days.
The latest is the Supremes ruling in favor of the WHITE FIREFIGHTERS in Connecticut.

It seems that 19 White and 1 Puerto Rican Firefighter sued the city of New Haven for discriminating against them by promoting less qualified Black Firefighters to higher positions within the department.

The Black side of me wants to say so what, who cares? How many times have Blacks been overlooked when they were more qualified that Whites and in this case a Puerto Rican?
But the Human side of me is saying, Good for them. They deserve this ruling and all the back pay that they would have accumulated up to this point, if they would have gotten the higher position that they earned.

The city of New Haven was dead wrong and I am glad that the Supremes got this one right.
Hiring or promoting to meet a quota is dead ass wrong.
If the 19 White and 1 Puerto Rican Firefighters worked harder and studied more for the Firefighters promotion test than their Black brother's did, then they deserve the promotion and the Blacks need to suck it up and work harder.

This shit should not have even made it to the Supreme's.
And in my opinion, the Black Firefighters should have stood beside their fellow Firefighters and declined the promotions.
But that would only happen in a perfect world.
All this case did was divide the Fire Department down color lines that will take years to fix.

This case is one of the problems I have with Affirmative Action. Do we still need it?
In some cases, yes we do. Affirmative Action has put (and continues to put) minorities into positions or schools that they would not have gotten a chance to be in without it.

But hiring a person just to say, 'Look my company is not racist. We have Jerome down in the mail room, Jose is in the Kitchen, Consuela is cleaning windows and Ming Chow is at the help desk', is wrong.
Me personally, I would not accept a job if I knew that I was only hired to meet a number.
Hire me for my qualifications, my education, my personality or my deep chocolate good looks.
But don't hire me just because I just happen to be African American applicant number 9.
To me that is degrading.
People have been watching Judge Judy and People's Court for twenty years now and all of a sudden everyone's an expert on judges and the court system.
But I already know that some of my brothers and sisters are going to comment talking about how the White Man has kept us down for so long that this is only pay back.
In some cases this might be true. But.....Now a days the only man holding us back is the man or woman in the mirror.
That bullshit excuse that I know is coming is nothing but tired rhetoric that condones people getting over for doing nothing to earn what ever they get.
Racism is still alive and well here in the good ole US of A, but now two can play that game. There are too many resources available to us to just accept any and everything that is thrown off the kitchen table as scraps.
So my hat is off to my White brothers and one Puerto Rican brother that won this decision.
Because me personally, if my crib is in flames, I could give two shits what color the help is.
The only thing I would be worrying about is when is Help coming.

I guess I don’t act black enough for some!

Oh yes! I have friends of mine say I was “The smartest black person [they] know!”

President Obama Tells Fellow Blacks: ‘No Excuses’ for Any Failure

President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America on Thursday night, warning black parents that they must accept their own responsibilities by “putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour,” and telling black children that growing up poor is no reason to get bad grades.“No one has written your destiny for you,” he said, directing his remarks to “all the other Barack Obamas out there”
President Barack Obama did great as usual. his remarks, steeped in his personal biography as the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, challenged the audience — those in the room and those beyond — to take greater responsibility for their own future. He told parents to take a more active role and residents to pay better attention to their schools.
It is going to take all Americans to fight Bigotry (wishful thinking). Some people uses bigotry as a badge. Bigotry helps build up some people self-esteem. The question arises-why is their hate? Why are blacks hated when they were enslaved,hanged for sport,and denied every right? If anybody has the right to hate ,it would be blacks. Many of those who profess top be Christians,are the worse bigots. It is going to take a true relationship with God to make a different. Laws will never change mankind heart regarding anything. Christian leader must stand up for a change,and get out of the political arena.

My President Is A Black Man, And I’m Proud

I know that many black people are proud that Obama is the president.

I have an entirely different perspective about the Obama presidency and what it represents.

Understand that Obama was supported by whites NOT BECAUSE he was black and NOT BECAUSE of his ideals but foremost because he was an Ivy-Leaguer WITH a socioeconomic affiliation that they gave credence to.

This Obama victory does not mean that America is no longer racist.
This Obama victory does not mean that America is no longer classist.

If Obama had the exact same demeanor and ideals but he was as dark as Wesley Snipes and the illegitimate son of Shaquaniffah and if he had graduated from a community college or a black college (instead of Harvard) then please believe me when I tell you that Obama WOULD NOT have been elected to the Senate…. and would NEVER HAVE been taken seriously as a presidential candidate.

Yes, socioeconomic class affiliation still matters in this country.

I keep reading blogs of black people saying that “now the barriers are shattered” and they are living on Fantasy Island because NO the class barriers are not shattered and a black boy from the projects has the same probability of being gunned down by the age of 18 as he did BEFORE November 4th… black women have the same probability of dying from HIV as they did BEFORE November 4th.

I am happy that you are happy for his victory but Obama will not change how blacks are viewed in this country as long as classism is alive and well.

Barack Obama is the President of the United States Not because he is Black, but because he was the best man for the job, and because John McCain wasn't!

I believe we as Black people have earned a right to be PROUD. Why not be proud of a man so eloquent, humble, poised and who brings people of all backgrounds together? The fact that he happens to be Black… is only icing on the cake!

Are Jewish people white?

Jews are Semites. They are not White.

Jews do follow a program analogous to biological mimicry. They like to look like their host population so they marry off their daughters to the males of the host population. The offspring, having Jewish mothers, are therefore Jews and over succeeding generations look more and more like the host population. Not only that, they have the names, manners, and customs of their fathers -- all the better to infiltrate the host population.

Nevertheless, DNA studies have shown that Jews in diverse countries have more in common genetically with Jews in other countries than they do with the host populations no matter how much they resemble the host.

The term "anti-semite" is related to Jews as much as to any other race of people.

Jews and Arabs are both Semites, so when you hear someone say: "Arabs are anti-semites." I don't think they really mean that, as they aren't against themselves, only against Jews. I think what they mean to say is "Arabs are anti-Jewish".

Black People in America

Black people in America have suffered tremendously. We have came from Jim Crow days where Blacks had to enter restaurants through the back, drink out of separate water fountains, sit at the back of the bus, and attend unequal schools to having a Black man for president. That itself speaks volumes. Blacks or people who are a part of the African Diaspora have been discriminated against worldwide. Some places it has been worse than others. For instance, look at Apartheid in South Africa or the caste system in India and some Caribbean countries. Those instances, I’ve only read about but, I’ve witnessed racism firsthand here in America. So the pain runs deep inside me. It goes beyond the stories that I was told about Medgar Evans, Emmitt Till, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and more.
Those are the stories that we must not forget in addition to our own account of struggles because of the color of our skin.
This Obama victory does not mean that America is no longer racist. Oh No! Far from it. And that Michael Jackson opened the door for the Blacks like Obama, Tiger Woods and Oprah.
I keep reading blogs of black people saying that “now the barriers are shattered” and they are living on Fantasy Island because NO the class barriers are not shattered and a black boy from the projects has the same probability of being gunned down by the age of 18 as he did BEFORE Barack Obama was elected.