Obama’s defusement of the whole Gates/Crowley/Black/White noise with his surprise appearance at a WH press briefing yesterday has pretty effectively brought the debate to an end (as far as to an end a debate such as that can ever come) and with this comment; [President Obama] did not apologize but softened his language. “I continue [...]
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From NYTimes here, about this and this and this and this and this and this and a whole lot of others… ; The way Mr. Martin described himself, he could be the very definition of a “post-racial” American. “I have children I’m trying to raise not to see race,” he said. “I’m beyond the whole [...]
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Round one goes to the sergeant, that’s for sure. From NYTimes.com: Police unions and other law enforcement groups lined up behind Sergeant Crowley on Thursday, calling his actions justified, while the Congressional Black Caucus defended Mr. Obama’s remarks and called on Congress to address the issue of racial profiling. On the other hand, the president [...]
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All right… from Boston.com; In his 1994 memoir, “Colored People,’’ he wrote a letter to his daughters about rising above the constraints of race. … “I rebel at the notion that I can’t be part of other groups, that I can’t construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about [...]
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We wrote about this here, the original NYTimes story is here, and here’s another and another… Now, Obama wants a piece of the scuffle, and the police sargent who arrested professor Gates. While he perhaps should concentrate more on uniting the fronts in the health reform case, the US president is being a busy bee meddling in [...]
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