President Obama's comments about the arrest of prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates has added further fuel to the fiery story that has dominated headlines and stirred national discussion about race in America.
When asked about the Gates' case at the end of Wednesday night's prime-time news conference that was intended to be chiefly about health care, the president said, "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that."
But Obama went on to say, "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; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact." - ABC News Story
So, in the eyes of the President, it is justified for you to not cooperate with police, yell and scream at them and just plain be a nuisance without any ramifications because there is a long history of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately?
Why do I get the feeling that instead of Obama's election being a breakthrough in the Glass Ceiling for Raicism in America, we are getting ready to see the progress that has been made quickly reversed? It is this type of attitude that hurts race relations.
Actions are right or wrong no matter what the color of the skin on someone. You can't justify either sides action because of how a particular race has been treated or not treated. That is what creates the divide. Either the actions or right or wrong!
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