Un-Liberaled Woman

So making the headlines these days is this story out of Cambridge where a man got arrested for disorderly conduct and then accused the police officers of racism because he’s an Ivy-edumacted man, and oh black. Notice, one of the police officers at the scene was also wait for it – B-L-A-C-K! I’m sure there was massive crimes of racism being committed as that officer stood by (eyes roooooooollin’).

Here’s the gist of the story:

A woman in her neighborhood saw two men trying to beat down a door of a local house. Probably being a woman and not knowing who the men were, she didn’t want to do nothing so called the police to warn them about a possible community crime, disturbance, what have you. Trust me, if this was going on in your neighborhood (and you didn’t recognize the people breaking in a door and you felt uneasy about approaching them yourself) you’d probably do the same thing because that’s the decent neighborly thing to do when it comes to protecting your community. Turns out the guy breaking in was the owner of the house. But when the police showed up to make sure everything was okay, instead of just cooperating with police by showing his id, the guy took the opportunity to go basically bat shit crazy like a Lohan on meth. It was more important for this guy to insult the officer who was trying to protect this guy’s community (and HIS HOME!) than for him to be cooperative.

What IF it wasn’t the owner, Gates, but an actual criminal breaking in the house and the police didn’t show up – my guess is this “professor” on race relations would then bitch and moan about the police not doing their job because they are racist toward the black man. Good grief. With people like this, you just can’t win because they will always try to find a way to make it about them being a victim of some sort.  Oh, and before anyone goes jumping on the conclusions map like Obama did a la Office Space, here’s the actual police report. (via Smoking Gun) Click the link for the full thing, here is the second page with all the good stuff.

Yeah, I bet Gates was cool, calm and collected. When the officer asked to see identification to make sure he was the owner of the house and Gates responded with “Why? Because I’m a black man in America!” (and refused to cooperate with police) he did so in just a calm, misunderstood way. Right.

Please this guy is an asshole, and you can be an asshole even if you’re purple. And if you’re a purple asshole who spends more time running your mouffffffffff off at investigating police officers (who are just doing their job making sure that all is right in the community because they got an emergency call about a possible breakin), then guess what – you’re ass gets arrested for disorderly conduct. Because that’s what disorderly conduct is:

Intentionally causing public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly causing a risk, conduct that disturbs the peace or endangers the morals, health, or safety of a community.

Or for a finer example, let’s turn to one of my dad’s favorite shows, COPS.  Let’s take an example of what disorderly conduct looks like when arrested:

Gates and Obama (for jumping to conclusions when he should have been politically correct and said “no comment”) should be ashamed of themselves (via HotAir). Of course Obama’s team is now doing massive backstrokes about his “officers acting stupidly” comment at the press conference before he chose to review ANY facts.

How could we have assumed that when Obama accused the cops of acting stupidly that we thought he meant they were stupid?  And Eastasia has always been at war with Oceania, Winston.

While I’m not denying there are forms of racism in this country, it’s the overzealous reactions of people so quick to pull out the victim card that they end up watering down what we as a society define as racism. It would be the same if we started calling tulips, crabgrass, and lilies all the word rose. The actual roses would not exude as strong a tie in definition to the word rose if we applied it more and more to things that weren’t really an accurate representation of it. Instead we’ve got people jumping up to defend Gates without first taking a look at the facts, because they’re so eager to have a leg to stand on with a weak argument (ie, that America is just one big racist against blacks).

Oh, and interesting too that in the midst of this Gates is trying to promote a documentary on racism in America. Opportunistic ego-maniac, say whaaaaaaaaaat? Yeah, he’s totally legit in his claims. No bias here folks. If you believe that then BTW I am your savior! and you must give me a million dollars.