Posted by
Dan Abbett on Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:50:37 PM
The speculation as to who should have done what and why with respect to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, has reached a level of absurdity unprecedented in the annals of such an incident. Gates was arrested for sustained belligerence to a police officer, end of story; unless you want to make it about race. Gates wanted to make it about race, Barack Obama wanted to make it about race, and the usual media suspects just can't seem to help themselves.
It seems that nothing "Whitey" does will ever make amends for a practice that ended over 200 years ago.
There are those in all ethnicities that hate another for one reason or another. Nothing will ever end such myopic prejudice, but White America does not "hate" Black America. It is becoming quite apparent however, that the reverse is not necessarily the case.
Barack Obama has become a catalyst that flames the coals of racial tensions that were finally cooling. It does not make a flattering statement about the man who would lead the world's greatest and most free of all nations on the planet to be that ignorant.