Keep it coming Liz. Soon you will be writing fashion faux pas for the tabloids.
As our family rounded the corner to the White House library and I first caught sight of Sergeant Crowley’s lovely 14-year old daughter—who was wearing an appropriately heavy and charmingly untrained amount of green eyeliner on her lower lashes.
And while I might agree with the President’s initial statement that the “Cambridge Police Department acted stupidly,” my father is not the first nor will he be the last black man to be arrested for no reason—in his own home or elsewhere—and Sgt. Crowley isn’t the first officer to fudge a police report. They are simply pawns in the rebirth of unfashionable intolerance in a world that likes to think our dashing brown-skinned 44th President has emerged to make nice with the past, present, and future.
Who is the compasionate one in the picture Ms. Gates? What color do you see? What label will you provide?
POTUS Revealing Body Language
Hmm, ObamaCrapCare for the elderly. Actions always speak larger that words. The volume is astounding.
July 31, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Marie Antonnette Liz!
The whiner who’s going bring down the first black prez – mark it!
July 31, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Totally pretentious. Gates really did teach that child that she was better than anyone else.
July 31, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Obama Involvement in Gates Flap Hurt Image, Poll Finds
The poll finds that Obama’s overall approval rating among whites tumbled seven percentage points from just after his July 22 news conference through last weekend, as the focus turned increasingly to his handling of the situation. The percentage of whites who “like” the kind of person he is fell by six points.
In a callback survey Monday evening, more than twice as many whites disapproved than approved of how Obama was dealing with the matter (45 percent disapproved, 22 approved and 33 percent said they did not know).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073004097.html
July 31, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I wish they would call me. The gates-gate is just another thorn. Let’s begin with all that transparency talk.
July 31, 2009 at 5:52 pm
[sigh] When will it end? This is not healing or helping, it is just making more and more people feel, whether they actually say it out loud or not, “ENOUGH ALREADY! GET OVER IT!” Get your collective acts together, get real jobs and stop blaming everybody else for your own choices!! Geez!
July 31, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Gosh, that would be hard. Imust, it is easier to mouth off than to go dig ditches.
Whatever happened to work ethic?
July 31, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Excellent post about this Gate-gate on the Black Agenda Report blog.
“What compelled President Barack Obama, the great practitioner of the art of dodging racial issues, to put precious political capital at risk in defense of Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, whose run-in with a Cambridge policeman threatened neither the Harvard professor’s life nor freedom? At no time in his candidacy or brief tenure as president had Obama displayed the slightest inclination to voluntarily come to the defense of Black folks in general or to interpose himself between white power and any individual African American. In this sense, he has been studiously “race-neutral” – or some would say, downright hostile to Blacks in the mass.
The answer lies in the deep-felt class bond between Obama and Gates. Although Obama graduated from Harvard the same year Gates joined the faculty there (1991), in a profound political/cultural sense they are classmates. The class to which they belong is only loosely linked to material wealth. Rather, it is largely negatively defined – that is, Gates’ and Obama’s shared class status is based on the perception of what they are not. They are not like the rest of Black folks; they are different, a cut above the rest, in their own and in white people’s estimations. “Gates’ and Obama’s shared class status is based on the perception of what they are not.”
To paraphrase the U.S. Marines recruiting spiel, Gates and Obama belong to that sub-group of African Americans (or uber-group, as they imagine) that believe themselves to be The Few, The Proud, The Better Class of Blacks. This self- and white-appointed class strives to prove they are also The Brave by launching periodic assaults on their nemeses, the lesser classes of Blacks. That’s how members of this peculiar class make themselves known: through ritual distancing from the larger mass of African Americans.
July 31, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Yes, I believe POTUS does consider himself above it all. This is class warfare. Do you believe that Jerry Jackson, Mr. I hate all crakkas thinks he is of the same class as these two?
July 31, 2009 at 6:32 pm
The commentary on that blog is interesting. This is about class. It will become more prevalent as time goes on.
I wonder if Rev Wright is still in that special class?
July 31, 2009 at 7:06 pm
brilliant analysis
“Gates’ and Obama’s shared class status is based on the perception of what they are not. They are not like the rest of Black folks; they are different, a cut above the rest, in their own and in white people’s estimations. “Gates’ and Obama’s shared class status is based on the perception of what they are not.””
Do you think it will ever become apparent to ‘rest of Black folks’ mentioned in the Black Agenda Report blog?
July 31, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Million dollar question Anthony. I thought they already knew.
July 31, 2009 at 6:42 pm
“The debate over Red Stripe and Blue Moon ….”
“….has now degenerated into a mean-spirited critique of the Green eyeliner that a 14 year old was wearing.”
I hesitate to write the descriptive I would like to use for Ms. Gates’ attitude, so I guess the next best thing would be to refer to her simply as a racist fucking pig. (with a capital “C”, in case there was any question)
July 31, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Hey, that works for me.
July 31, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Elizabeth Gates — the idiot doesn’t fall far from her daddy tree.
July 31, 2009 at 7:19 pm
That is very funny.
July 31, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Oh my! The picture you just added with Crowley helping Gates and The Arrogant One walking ahead…..priceless! Remember when O-man O-ggled that 17 year old in France and then he quick covered by pretending he was helping someone behind him down a step?? Just goes to show how fake THAT was!
July 31, 2009 at 10:39 pm
A picture is worth a thousand words. Surprised that the WH offered it. They can’t even see when they are being stupid. This speaks volumes imust.
August 1, 2009 at 12:35 am
she was an intern for Vogue. prolly her only real job. what did you expect her to write about?
August 1, 2009 at 12:47 am
Jeez, I would have thought Anna Wintour would have had her for breakfast with this attitude.