Not at all. In studying human behavior and the offshoots of sociology we examine these as in your case with prejudice. If someone wants to go the route of 'victumhood" they must early on establish a heirarchy of victumization. Ann coulter describes this very well. Example, Single moms are victums of dead beat dads. Stretch that into some cultural unfareness and then it goes into rights and society paying for the bad deeds that hurt a victum.
Now you just smeared me by reason of claiming I smeared the prof. Having been a prof and having hired and fired proffs, I am incredibly aware of the dynamics. I have been an employer of a black HARVARD Phd.
Be carefull. Expressing observation of human behavior is not defamation of character.
Telling us cops "acted stupidly" is defamatory.. Even more so since Obama did not observe the behavior of the cops.
Now I will ask a racist question. Can anyone name a single
Lecturer in Afro-American Studies That is not black?
I visited Africa and found the northern states were Arabs. where my family owned and ran a school and ministry for 50 years.
South Africa is to a very large extent white. My NCAA tennis champ friend was from there. Are these professorial slots of a racial nature or cultural and geographic in design?
From my observations, these teaching slots are more about America and less about the fine continent of Africa and ALL of it's diverse peoples.
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I suspect some claim he isn't qualified evah to be able to teach the following.
You said a whole bunch of stuff, but you didnt answer my questions so i will ask you again:
1. You referred to the professor as a perpetrator and miscreant. When did the professor become the perpetrator and a miscreant?
2. why are you questioning the other black cop's character when he isnt even apart of this?
3. What are you inferring about the black cop when you say "is [he] black enough"?
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During the press conference, not once did Obama, the proponent of empathy, even attempt put himself in the place of the White police officer. He avoided the opportunity to extend understanding to Crowley's response and position as a law enforcement official. Instead, Obama forfeited the opportunity to exercise the compassion he claims Americans lack instead calling on his own racial bitterness using the opportunity to stir racial dissension. Obama judged and condemned the Cambridge police saying they, "... acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof he was in his own home." Obama cast aspersions on their character after admitting he did not know the facts of the incident. Following up, the President interjected a divisive statement on racial profiling, "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 is just a fact."
h/t American thinker
I will usually side with the police whether they are white, black or Hispanic officers when they arrest an out of control person of any race.
I may not be right 100% of the time, but the odds are heavily in my favor of being right.
I've had run-ins with police officers that were jerks. I kept my cool and kept my mouth shut and everything turned out fine. If I had a victim complex, I could have notice their race and maybe tried to play that card.
I believe sometimes the race card is used when it is nothing more than a jerk police officer! Unfortunately, I can't play the race card against a white officer!
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I will usually side with the police whether they are white, black or Hispanic officers when they arrest an out of control person of any race.
I may not be right 100% of the time, but the odds are heavily in my favor of being right.
I've had run-ins with police officers that were jerks. I kept my cool and kept my mouth shut and everything turned out fine. If I had a victim complex, I could have notice their race and maybe tried to play that card.
I believe sometimes the race card is used when it is nothing more than a jerk police officer! Unfortunately, I can't play the race card against a white officer!
I've seen and know Black officers who get called the "n word". I know officers who responded to calls and people did not want to deal with them at all because they were black. Those people were stupid and racist, rude, and obnoxious...I just don't see it as a reason to be arrested in their home....particularly if the officer recognizes that they were mistaken in the first place and they were dealing with somebody who was probably pretty agitated about what was happening before they even showed up.
Either way, we'll see how it plays out. We can go around this forever I guess, but I just wanted to point out another perspective.
I'm a glutton for punishment; I love to swim upstream against the flow of the river AFF.
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More news about the officer which makes it look worse for the scholar and President ...
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For five of the past six years, Crowley also has volunteered alongside a black colleague in teaching 60 cadets per year about how to avoid targeting suspects merely because of their race, and how to respond to an array of scenarios they might encounter on the beat. Thomas Fleming, director of the Lowell Police Academy, said Crowley was asked by former Cambridge police Commissioner Ronnie Watson, who is black, to be an instructor.
"I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming said.
I think that dumb comment the nutty professor made - what was it? - "You don't know who you're messing with," is really going to come back on him. It's actually the scholar who didn't realize who the officer was that he's accusing of being a "race-baiter," "racist," etc.
Sorry, tstew+, but I don't need more to tell me this scholar created this racial incident out of thin air ... there was no racism here. The officer is a good man who's being smeared by this scholar, the President, the mayor of Cambridge and the governor --- incidently all of whom are black.
I would hate to think these individuals are biased by the color of their skin to this incident ... but why else would the President rush to judge the officers; the mayor rush to apologize and demand the charges be dropped; and the governor rush to criticize the officer involved.
Unfortunately there yet remains racism in America ...
And it's very unfortunate that this scholar resorted to opportunism and tried creating something that wasn't in order to push his belief that "this is what happens to black men in America."
I don't need to read or watch any of the scholars work to know his bias. His actions here show his own racism and lack of character.
I've seen and know Black officers who get called the "n word". I know officers who responded to calls and people did not want to deal with them at all because they were black. Those people were stupid and racist, rude, and obnoxious...I just don't see it as a reason to be arrested in their home....particularly if the officer recognizes that they were mistaken in the first place and they were dealing with somebody who was probably pretty agitated about what was happening before they even showed up.
Either way, we'll see how it plays out. We can go around this forever I guess, but I just wanted to point out another perspective.
I'm a glutton for punishment; I love to swim upstream against the flow of the river AFF.
I have no doubt that what you are saying is true. People get mad and will say stuff to insult an officer. If you cross the line, you will get busted!
I was in a car where the driver was pulled over for speeding. The officer came to the window and my friend that was driving said, "Shouldn't you be at Dunkin' Doughnuts? Oh I get it, you're out collecting money for your doughnut budget!" I was shocked!
After we pulled away with his ticket in hand, I asked him why he said that! Why did he insult the officer? He said that he knew that he was going to get a ticket anyway, so why be nice about it! BTW, this was an Apostolic preacher!!!
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More news about the officer which makes it look worse for the scholar and President ...
I think that dumb comment the nutty professor made - what was it? - "You don't know who you're messing with," is really going to come back on him. It's actually the scholar who didn't realize who the officer was that he's accusing of being a "race-baiter," "racist," etc.
Sorry, tstew+, but I don't need more to tell me this scholar created this racial incident out of thin air ... there was no racism here. The officer is a good man who's being smeared by this scholar, the President, the mayor of Cambridge and the governor --- incidently all of whom are black.
I would hate to think these individuals are biased by the color of their skin to this incident ... but why else would the President rush to judge the officers; the mayor rush to apologize and demand the charges be dropped; and the governor rush to criticize the officer involved.
Unfortunately there yet remains racism in America ...
And it's very unfortunate that this scholar resorted to opportunism and tried creating something that wasn't in order to push his belief that "this is what happens to black men in America."
I don't need to read or watch any of the scholars work to know his bias. His actions here show his own racism and lack of character.
n david, my posts here have not been about racism. What I have allowed is that race may have an underlying affect in the initial call and perhaps in how the officer approached the situation. However, that is certainly not provable or definite. Is it possible that upon seeing a similarly dressed 60 year old white male, the caller may not have been so alarmed? There is a possibility. (Even after he apparently went crazy and had to be handcuffed, he is still neatly dressed and tucked-in in the picture) So some apparently look at that picture and see a crazy man screaming, while some look at his overall look and wonder if we would even be here if it were a 60 year old white professor with a cane. However, it's not provable or definite.
I do not know exactly how the officer approached him, but I will allow that there is a possibility that he was approached differently than his white counterpart would be.
Having said all of that though, my issue is not about race, it's about how I still have not seen real justification for leading him off of his property in hand cuffs. I get that he was irate, I just don't see how the police simply leaving would not have solved the problem.
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I have no doubt that what you are saying is true. People get mad and will say stuff to insult an officer. If you cross the line, you will get busted!
I was in a car where the driver was pulled over for speeding. The officer came to the window and my friend that was driving said, "Shouldn't you be at Dunkin' Doughnuts? Oh I get it, you're out collecting money for your doughnut budget!" I was shocked!
After we pulled away with his ticket in hand, I asked him why he said that! Why did he insult the officer? He said that he knew that he was going to get a ticket anyway, so why be nice about it! BTW, this was an Apostolic preacher!!!
That's crazy. That ought to have opened the door for witnessing and eventually having the officer come to the church ....
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