GatesGate–The Final Act

These black and Latino communities are often targeted based on their socioeconomic situation. People suffer because of economic situations all over the world. The Borgen Project has some good information on the cost of addressing global poverty (www.borgenproject.org).
It only takes $30 billion annually to end world hunger!
Yet… we are spending $550 billion annually on the defense budget.

Obama didn’t want to tell the truth. To him, Officer Crowley was just another “typical white person”. Funny how the MSM ignores that little bit of history.

This should be a Swampland Post too:
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http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/07/24/democratic-censorship-of-republicans-no-exaggeration/

A one hour press conference on a pressing national issue and in the end all people want to talk about are the few sentences uttered about the Gates Incident. If Obama wants to get all three of them together so they can sit around, have a beer and sing Kumbia, then great. Anything, so that we can get back to discussing that other little matter….national health care reform.

You know, you really have to marvel at the arrogance of St. Barack. He makes irresponsible comments, and then talks about a “teaching moment”.
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What a tool.

queen, when the Prez steps in it, it’s news. That’s the deal.

I disagree, it’s a sideshow.

Unfortunately, Obama’s comment exhibits a lack of even-handedness when it comes to race, queencersei, that’s a big deal.

So is health care reform.

queen, when the right wing perceives that they can win political points by relentlessly flogging something the Prez has said/done, it’s news. That’s the deal.

Fixed!

And health care reform is getting discussed . . . .
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Were Trent Lott’s reprehensible comments a “sideshow”?

WHY IS THE PRESIDENT INVOLVED IN THIS?!

This is a local issue! Come on now!

I groaned when Obama made the “stupid” comment. I knew that by the next day that is all anyone would be talking about. I’m not saying that the discussions brought up by the Gates incident aren’t important. But it’s depressing that it has overshadowed the health care discussion in the way it has.

But he was right. The police did act stupidly. So did Gates. And the result was the result to be expected when people are unable to pull back from the brink of stupid.

He should have used milder language, and he quite properly acknowledged that. But it doesn’t change the facts.

And anybody who can’t acknowledge that is the real tool.

apollyon7, that’s his worldview, that’s why . . . .
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Remember, this is the guy who has issues with interracial romance, and this is the guy who yapped about the “just-us” system (get it, vice justice system). He sees everything through the lens of race.

that’s right acme, the fact is that Barack Obama’s assessment here was not even-handed. His original comments heaped criticism on some guy who, at the end of the day, was just doing his job and who had to deal with an unprovoked stream of insults and implied that that guy was a racist. He said nothing critical of Gates.
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Ordinarily, I might let that slip. But the bottom line is that this arrogant man (a) has arrogated unto himself the mantle of leading a national conversation on race, (b) has shown a disturbing pattern on non-evenhandedness when it comes to race and (c) now arrogantly pontificates about police-minority relations.

For all my frustation with Obama, when I see how much he sends wingnuts into a tizzy, it truly puts a smile on my face.

Great, so now it’s okay for a cop to arrest you for “over-reacting” to them when they’re doing something stupid. Just great.

Unfortunately, the media seized it and the republicans immediately made it into a major talking point.

“But it’s depressing that it has overshadowed the health care discussion in the way it has.”

You know Q, I sometimes feel that way, why is the media so distracted by this or that shiny object, but then I remember that when they do pay attn. to an issue of substance that the so-called “discussion” is banal, superficial, offering only stale, regurgitated talking pts. That the propagandists skirt about, ignore or reinvent the facts at will. The NYT’s refusal to use the word “torture” springs to mind.

As with our elected officials, the media’s interests and American interests do not run parallel–it’s not surprise that the discourse streams are equally imcompatible.

Why is it that its only Obama or other blacks and Latinos that are overly sensitive. I seem to remember an awful comments declaring Gates the jerk at fault. And I noticed that while the President never said anyone was motivated by race, we all went to our respective corners, drawn primarily based on racial lines. And while the police report was taken and reported in the media as fact without out anyone questioning the cop whose first word on the subject was to remind us he didn’t vote for Obama. Let’s face it folks, we might love calling out Conservatives for being racist but from my perspective nobody gets a pass and plenty of liberals dodged the issue deferring to their white experience as Tweety called it. Liberal or not, most of us would prefer to just ignore this issue rather than deal with it. It kind of makes it clear why Attorney General Holder called us a nation of cowards.

Spob, the truth! the truth! you can’t handle the truth. Because way down in places that you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall you need me on that wall.

So Joe, are you saying that the press is done flogging this now that Obama has “apologized” and offered to host (or hoist) a beer with Gates and Crowley? ‘Cause that changes everything, right?

“His original comments heaped criticism on some guy who, at the end of the day, was just doing his job”

Nonsense. He said the police acted stupidly. And they did.

Criticism of actions is not criticism of persons, and a statement of fact is not a heap of criticism. Too bad, you were almost making a valid point there, until you decided hyperbole was your friend.

Well played, Dee.

So lessee, a president who yapped about wanting to lead a national conversation on race comments on a racially-charged incident without knowing all the facts. Not newsworthy? Come on guys. I know it’s hard, but try to have a little objectivity.
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Obama demonstrated a clear lack of even-handedness in a racially-charged incident. And he has a history of that. And we’re not supposed to mention it?
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Guess what, when you are on record talking about “a typical white person”, ya don’t get to riff on a racially-charged incident without some scrutiny.

In that this particular animal (especially as it relates to Obama) is largely a press creation, their decision to stop flogging it does indeed change everything.

Dee, first of all, Gates really isn’t denying that he made those abusive comments. He thinks they were justified, but he said them. So we’re perfectly free to assess them. Second, while the president didn’t say the cop was racist, he went on to talk about racial profiling etc., and the implication was pretty clear. And you know what, he’s the one who said he wanted to lead a national conversation on race . . . . so he cannot really complain if people point out his awkward dumping on the cops.
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What’s funny is that no one will even engage my point–which is that there’s a lot of evidence that Obama is not even-handed on racial matters.

This “final act” will last a while. I expect it to have more concluding scenes than the final installment of Lord of the Rings.

ace, cop shows up, responding to a call and is treated with some arrogant prick calling him all sorts of names and threatening his career. An arrest may not have been legally justified (I don’t think it was), but the reality is that we don’t expect cops to be 100% perfect on arresting people.
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Obama then waded in, made the implication that this was racism. (Of course, Obama has nothing to say about Gates’ obvious prejudice.)
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Maybe Obama will talk about the racial incident in Akron.

For whatever it might be worth, I guess we won’t get any assurances from Joe that his colleagues are done “following” the story.

Seconded.

Yep! Me too! Fun stuff.

Hey, no reason to besmirch TLotR with comparisons to the MSM.

Whenever they get around to having their drink there will be at least one more thread devoted to it. If this leads to some people re-examining their attitudes and putting themselves into another’s shoes, it could turn out to be a major positive.

Amen anon76. But let’s not forget how bad the trolls were in the LOTR also. That was just a gift and a perfect setup. Thanks.

Hey spob– see that’s what I mean about you not being able to handle the truth.

[...] • Media gasbags may be willing to change the subject if they feel that the President has apologized sufficiently. [...]

If you thought the endings in LOTR were overdone never, ever watch A.I.

11 of 21 comments from the same person?

spob -get a life

I was groaning with you. I was also surprised; his justly famous self-control seemed to slip.

But Barack Obama has not lived his life in a magic bubble, protected from racism. This thing probably hit a nerve.

At least this discredits the Obama-is-a-robot theories a bit.

Stanley Fish’s reaction is worth a read:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/henry-louis-gates-deja-vu-all-over-again/

Shocking discussion of Gates story on NPR. Juan Williams and Scott Simon.

http://bit.ly/fAsd2

Followed next hour by another bad one by Dan Shorr

Obama said he didn’t know what role race played in the arrest. He also used the phrase separate and apart from this incident when referring to racial profiling by law enforcement. Obama only called the arrest stupid, which it was (I’ve heard from many police officers who said they would never have made an arrest in that situation and would have just walked away after the burglary investigation was complete). He then tried to offer an explanation for why the situation might have escalated by recognizing the simple fact that race relations between law enforcement and minorities is, and has been, less than stellar. He never called the white cop racist. His comment about racial profiling applied to the situation at hand, i.e. both people, including his friend.

It’s quite plausible that Obama was simply trying to offer context and a reason for why Gates would have allegedly blown up, and given the history of racial profiling in this country (something any black or latino person would know all too well), it’s exceedingly important that both parties exercise restraint when race is involved, especially law enforcement officers who swear to serve and protect their fellow citizen and are capable of using deadly force. There’s no reason why that particular situation should have resulted in an arrest. Officers are supposed to diffuse situations and prevent them from escalating.

But somehow his comment morphed into something entirely different from what he meant. It was interpreted to be disparaging and racially insensitive. Suddenly everyone was whispering “did you hear how Obama implied that cop was racist?” People retreated to their respective and familiar corners, their comfort zones, divided along partisan and racial lines. Everyone was accused of racism. Everyone was offended. Everyone demanded an apology. We know we are all judgmental creatures, and yet no one has the courage to admit it.

The only crime in this whole saga is that we can’t have an honest conversation about race relations and law enforcement without hurling the word “racist!” at every moving object.

Yes, indeed this is a refreshingly honest entry into the discussion. It’s the kind of exploration into the impact of subtle, often unconscious yet racially influenced perceptions that often fuel these kinds of events. I only wish more of the white so-called liberal media would visit this aspect of the story, perhaps even examining the degree to which these perceptions may influence the media’s response to this story and media coverage in general. By leaving most of this road up to the black commentariat to travel, it can only lead to a hardening of positions across racial lines.

“He never called the white cop racist. His comment about racial profiling applied to the situation at hand, i.e. both people, including his friend.”

Turns out, neither did Gates. According to Crowley, when he told Gates that he was there to investigate a burglary, Gates replied, “because I’m a black man in America?” Now that would tell me Gates was referring to whomever made the call, not Gates. Apparently, Gates’ thin-skin (rather than white skin) got the best of him.

First of all, you missed the point . . . . . . . .

Barack never, never called the police officer a “racist”, he stated, based on what he knew about his friend Henry Gates, the arrest was “stupid”. Now, did Obama speak without knowing all the facts, yes, which he acknowledged when he made the statement. Further he knowledged that Blacks are sensitive to perceived profiling.

In the end, Obama manned up and acknowledged his words only racheted up the situation. He called the police officer and acknowledged his words did not help. He even stated that the officer was fine and excellent officer (even though Obama knows nothing about how good an officer Crowley is) and joked about Crowley and Gates joining him at the White House for a beer.

I am always amazed at how Republicans try to charge Obama with stirring up racial issues when he does his best to leave such issues alone. They seem to believe if racial issues are not raised they suddenly will disappear. They can’t seem to understand why Black folks aren’t happy on the plantation and why Black people get riled up by the “Uppity Negroes” like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. With the exceptions like the late Jack Kemp, they seem to have missed the boat.

Got to go. I wouldn’t you want to feel like I will ignore you later.

Nathan, I’m afraid that the kind of honest dialogue on race that you speak of will only happen when all sides stop confusing having perceptions that are influenced by racial factors and being a racist. The fact remains that few people, despite the mounting evidence of a small, vocal, cadre of die-hards staining the image of the GOP, are actually racists. However, we are all biased by one factor or another.

Jesse Jackson readily admitted to being more scared of black footsteps than white ones walking up behind him on the streets of Washington DC. And quite frankly, if more middle and upper-class blacks were to be equally honest they would tell you a similar story.

Brown vs the Board of Education’s most powerful argument was one based on psychological studies demonstrating the real legacy of the separate but equal doctrine. Despite the contrary claims of previous wise old white men on the bench, the doctrine produced black children who preferred “the good, pretty, white doll” over the doll that most closely resembled themselves. The visually perceptible pain emanating from children being forced to admit they resembled “the bad black doll” in question was eerily similar to the emotions seeping through the hardened personas of some of the most highly disciplined black men, including the president, that this country has produced.

In reality, none of us have escaped the internalization of subtle messages about minority inferiority blasting through our movies, radios, books and even television cartoons that substitute a black character in “Ghost Busters” for a gorilla or demean the black character in a once popular cartoon called “Thunder Cats” by creating, in a story about a lair of super powered cat heroes, a powerless black cat who is the groups mechanic and driver. Now I don’t know if these decisions were intentional, but I will say that our nation cannot say in one breath that the absence of realistic black role models is distorting the perceptions of what black children believe is attainable, and then deny that these same factors have an impact on how white children view blacks. You cannot have it both ways.

If we could all just start from the position that we are all good people, who come to the table in good faith, acknowledging that all of us carry within our psyche perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about race that have been influenced by cultural and institutional traditions that have not always been well informed or intentioned.

And if we could go just one step further and consciously agree that exploring how these influences impact our points of view and our subsequent actions, is both important, if hope to rise above them, and required to recognize the stake we all have in the outcome. It is paramount that we all acknowledge that every perspective has value and is equally valid and lastly, as well as most importantly, that it is precisely because we all share these internal influences that no one should be held responsible or labeled a racist for simply having these influences.

The only responsibility we all share, including the media, is for determining how we respond upon learning our biases exist. But considering that the seeds of this problem lies in a decision that no living person has made, to participate in a slave trade that no one here is empowered to reverse, we should return to African soil for the remedy. Perhaps one lesson this great nation can learn from the examples of truth and reconciliation commissions in South Africa and Rwanda is that once all parties have been heard, perspectives acknowledged, experiences shared and prisms validated, we will have a far better opportunity to heal the emotional scars of the past and put today’s issues of blame, guilt and misunderstandings to rest.

When will you Swamplanders remember to not feed the trolls.

I think it’s because spob thinks he knows what’s good for them – and – whether they should be insulted or not.

Never mind the fact that he won’t actually ask people in the Black community just why they react this way…

The other factualities are the the ones pointing to the mian critics in the Republican party, a large number of whom have entire careers based on the dissemination and fomentation of racial hatred.

But of course spob, in having learned his civil rights narrative from those that practice Southern Strategy, would never admit that there is a problem with these people in the credibility department.

Hell no! It’s time to milk the outrage!

It sucks even more when the word ‘racist’ is fired off by those very people who have made rather long and sordid careers out of it!

“And so, pace Gatesgate.”
I wish, Joe.

Unfortunately, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Pat Buchannon, Trent Lott, and other leaders of the GOP don’t seem to think so.

Hey guys, seems Gates isn’t completely above board:
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http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/07/a-gatesgate-at-henry-gates-bogus-charity.html

Do you read beyond the headlines of even your own right-wing, nut-job of a website?

Do you actually not understand what they explicitly wrote?

I supposed in an effort to prevent getting sued for libel or slander, they were forced to admit in the body of the article about the “bogus charity” charge, which was made by the website and not in the Boston Globe article they refer to, that failing to file the paperwork in question did not automatically constitute a non-compliance. Although the form required to be filed by charities before soliciting public donations had not been filed in 2005 at the time of the charity’s inception, they would need to check back because the charity would not be out of compliance if it was inactive and during that period the tax records indicated that an extension had been filed so no additional data was available.

Of course, in the even finer print they post the most interesting piece of double speak — that while it was not a crime not to have disseminated the direct contributions on hand, considering the charity’s mission, it was a shame they hadn’t done so.

Now doesn’t this mean that after further checks the charity has been found to be in compliance because at no point does the website revisit the bogus charges from 2005 when the charity was legally dormant. It jumps straight ahead to the year in which funds are associated and it is clear the charity is no longer inactive. The year 2008 in which Gates announces that a percentage of the profits of a newly formed for-profit company owned by gates would be contributed to the charity.

So now the problem is that its suspicious that so far the only expenditures of the charity, totaling approximately 20K, are for administration purposes — to people he has had a prior business relationship with. I suppose the charity is out of line for not hiring random strangers instead of established business associates. Moreover, the reprimand for not giving the money out fast enough is even more ludicrous when you review the mission:

“a percentage of all profits will be donated to the Inkwell Foundation, dedicated to reforming the teaching of science and history in inner city schools using genetic and genealogical ancestry tracing.”

Of course, it totally escaped you spob that from information on the website you provided, that it is clear that it might take more than the 200K they have so far put together and a year’s time to create a program that could do what they are charged to do. Funny I think keeping administrative costs to 10% of the principal is not only commendable its is much better than the average 20% of admin costs of most charities.

Now spob, while I expect for you to ignore facts presented by reputable sources, this information comes from your own source! If its not true or you dispute any of the findings then you have only yourself to blame. Now I can go back to comfortably ignoring everything you write.

Four years ago I saw the movie Crash which showed the virtual tinderbox of race relations that existed in our country. Today, sadly, race relations are not any better, despite a Black President. The overwhelming outpouring of letters posted to this site and many others after the President’s comment about the Gates incident clearly indicated that we also have not come any further than we were after the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial was announced sixteen years ago with Blacks celebrating and Whites in stunned disbelief. Each side has their own views about race and sometimes, oftentimes, even while perceptions may not be true, perception for that race becomes reality.

One thing I know for certain is that someday life on our planet will end but it will not be because we did not do enough about climate change. It will be because we did not do enough to change the climate of hatred, bigotry, anger, mistrust, hopelessness, and despair. Whether in our own country, the Mideast, or in many countries around the world, we are more concerned about what divides us instead of the things we have in common that can bring us together.

This past week I spent several hours reading postings about the Obama/Gates comments and on Israeli sites about the Arab Israeli conflict. I came away from reading hundreds of letters feeling very sad about my fellow human beings. If we would could only bottle half of the energy we expend hating and mistrusting others and use it to fight disease, poverty, and hunger, this world would be a lot better off. Before we worry about climate change let’s concentrate on changing the climate about working together to make this planet we inhabit a wonderful life for everyone.

I dont know Dee, they sure took in a lot, and doled out very little.

Maybe racial problems will get better when we all just stop making a big deal out of it…everyone’s a little bit racist.

Meh, Gatesgate wasn’t even about race.

Spob, these are your numbers not mine! They took in 200 thousand dollars and spent a little over 20 thousand dollars in administrative costs. Unless conservatives have a different math than the rest of us that means their administrative costs are about 10% compared to the 20% that is the norm for both for-profit and non-profit institutions in this country.

Further more, the goal is to implement science programs based on DNA testing and genealogical research that clearly will take longer than a year and cost more than $200K to conduct.

Now you don’t have to admit you were wrong and clearly, I don’t expect as much, but you can at least read your own sources more closely and acknowledge this is indeed what this websites offers in the finer print below the alarming head lines you tried to report as fact.

There is an abject lack of awareness which appears to pervade the Internet regarding criminality online.

Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial Marriage blog” is a crook— and shouting Black Power all over the Internet while systematically targeting Black women– added to her being criminally adroit and seasoned in effecting online assaults– has enabled her run amok online untried, unprosecuted and free!!

When criminal activity is ongoing especially when the Thugs involved are Black, sometimes law enforcement steps gingerly around them. Go to the site “Project 21″ the so called Black Conservative Think Tank. Shay Riley and her husband Akbar Shabazz own this organization and run hundreds of other fabricated sites to fuel fake news for the fabricated persons who purportedly run these organization/site.

Virtually all the officers are fabricated. The writers of articles, fake, the donations contributed by many made unwittingly to these criminals whose vicious criminal misrepresentations and brutality earns them a buck! FRAUDSTERS!!!!!!!

These criminals, Shay Riley and her accomplices, operate a slew of other liberal sites while bilking the public for money pretending to run a conservative Think tank. BLATANT LIE!
“Field Negro”, “Brother Peacemaker”, The Black Sentinel and hundreds of other sites are examples of liberal sites they operate. Yet these people claim to be “Black Conservatives”. They are running an elaborate SCAM!!

This enterprise “National Center for Public Policy Research – A Conservative Think Tank” which has been created to look authentic is simply a labyrinth of elaborately crafted lies which promote the scams of Shay Riley and her vile criminal husband. Liars and Fraudsters! Online Armed Robbers who should be jailed!

THERE IS NO DAVID ALMASI the so called director of the National Center for Public Policy Research. This is another creation of this Internet criminal Shay Riley, a BLACK online Predator.

The “news” scattered all over the Internet and the different information plants on numerous blogs are FALSE. Pictures of officers represented on the blog are FAKE. The likeness of persons used without their permission. Stolen from them by these FELONS!

These criminals have got a free pass and now are hiding and bobbing online as is usual with online predators, trying in vain to hide the crimes which they commit daily.

These people Shay Riley aka Halima Sal Andersen of the blog “Black Women Blow the Trumpet” and her accomplices have listened to my calls for YEARS, steal from the public and their only skills are ROBBERY, THEFT and hiding online using different aliases, fabricated blogs, alteration of legitimate sites and people search engines.

This woman claims to be interracially married and runs numerous blogs in support of this claim meanwhile she is married to a BLACK scum bag criminal, Akbar Shabazz aka David Almasi. Stealing the lives of bonafide Black Interracially married women like me as fodder for her fabricated existence on her numerous blogs.

So being Black can make you the target of law enforcement but amazingly in my case, in trying to route these Felons Shay Riley and AKbar SHabazz, their race appears to have contributed in part to keeoping them free for this long. Otherwise Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial Marriage blog” should be in jail for illegally wiretapping my phone, activating my microphone as a listening device for NINE YEARS.

This woman commits felonies against me daily using these illegal wiretaps yet shouting Black power and running a FAKE BLACK conservatives company inspite of stealing from the public through criminal misrepresentations on this so called Conservative site using false non existent officers and persons to rob the public, she is still Free to date.

Since they know I am trying again to get them investigated and prosecuted, they lay low and then once they feel the scrutiny is past, continue their crimes with great aplomb.

It is sickening that so far, the FBI has been thwarted by a bunch of online scumbags.

Shay Riley is a Predator who should be investigated tried and Jailed.

Well Yoshi, your cute little musical is right about all of us having racial biases, acknowledging that fact is a good place to start the dialogue but a bad place to end it. When a significant portion of the population believes that their race can have an adverse impact on their survivability when facing instruments of state power, its nothing to laugh at. I noticed, that while there were some really neat ways of addressing the little foibles we all attribute to one another, It did not mention the impact of racial bias on minorities coming into contact with law enforcement and the judicial system. And while you might continue to think that racial bias is no big deal and we would better off if we just acted that way, I would hazard a guess that those whose survival was on the line and the families of those who did not survive those contacts would most heartedly disagree.

I ask my fellow progressive commenters, who ask us to rally behind the causes of Gay Americans and who resent the Democratic Party’s tendency to exclude Progressives and their solutions from the debate, not to do the same thing to African Americans who find this issue one of critical importance and are a key constituency of the Democratic coalition.

And this has bearing on this debate how exactly? Are you saying that blacks aren’t really negatively impacted by racial bias in law enforcement because allegedly some case you’ve brought against someone black hasn’t gone your way? Frankly, whether or not you realize it, you sound less like a lawyer and more like someone whose off their meds.

Dee of MD:

I am saying being Black cuts both ways. In the case of these felons, Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial Marriage blog” and her husband “Akbar Shabazz” of the site http://www.akbarshabazz.com, their ability to manipulate the Internet and cry Black Power at every turn even though their targets are the same Black people wthey purport to empower –has kept them free to date.

As I have always said, if it was a WHITE POWER group that was committing the crimes which these felons have committed against me, a woman of color, or against other law abiding people of color, those White power proponents would have long been jailed. These Black Scam artists are free in part because they cry Black power all over the web.

I will ignore your rather inane reference to meds, maybe you should be on meds if you think that this site is not open to other posters to share their perspectives without being subjected to the mindless invective you have elected to spew on me.
The reason I post on here is because I want seasoned reporters like Klein and Tumulty to investigate these felons (Shay Riley, Shabazz and accomplices) and break open the case.
I want these felons exposed and routed.

David Almasi of the BLACK Conservative Think Tank “National Center for Public Policy Research”, despite the myriad of articles released by these scam artists, does NOT exist.

These people Shay Riley and Akbar Shabazz of the website “Project 21″ have created an intricate web of extensive digital lies and deceit.

These online THUGS should be subjected to a sustained and through investigation and should face the full force and effect of the justice system.

Yes, one segment of society has something to fear from racism, but how far does that apply to the rest? I would say not exactly.

This case is a prime example. We have a white-collar, upper-class person who continues to bring up racial profiling in every word he can get in edgewise up to this day when in fact racism had absolutely nothing to do with the case. A neighbor saw two men forcing entry into a house and called the cops. A cop checked it out, as was his duty. He used proper procedure, at least before the arrest, but was insulted and accused of racial bias. Why? Because the upper-class minority was unreasonably PARANOID.

Such paranoia can be dangerous. I had a Hispanic friend who, turning a corner on his bike, knocked over an old lady. He then ran for it. Why? Because he just knew that the authorities would stick it to him because…he’s a minority.