[lbo-talk] cooler heads should have prevailed

[shag carpet bomb]

At 03:14 PM 7/24/2009, Dennis Claxton wrote quoted:
>Connie Rice, a black Los Angeles civil rights attorney who has played a 
>leading role in reforming the Los Angeles Police Department, agreed that 
>the Gates incident was not an obvious example of racial profiling.
>
>"Racial profiling is when an officer makes a traffic stop or takes some 
>other action based only on some bias they hold," she said.
>
>But, she cautioned, "that does not mean that there were not racial 
>elements to what happened."
>
>The officer, Rice said, appeared to be acting more out of an "arrogance of 
>power," which could be in part racially motivated. And Gates, she said, 
>seemed to manifest what she called "Black American Princess Syndrome."
>
>"This was the supreme humiliation for Henry Louis Gates, because he has 
>achieved a rarefied status and the considerations that are usually 
>afforded to him went right out the window when the officer arrested him," 
>Rice said. "In a minute, that cop erased all that Gates has had to work 
>through to get where he is.
>
>"That officer was not going to back down because he had been challenged 
>and he would look weak," she said.
>
>"But Gates was not going to back down because that officer tripped every 
>racial humiliation that Gates and his family have experienced since slavery."

this is exactly right.

and frankly, part of that vaunted anti-racism, anti-profiling training this 
pork-powered individual was said to have been involved in? it should 
include exactly this kind of training: how to cool down and chill out, and 
how to understand why the interaction is necessarily going to be shaped by 
a history of racial humiliation.

shag

"let's be civil and nice, but not to the point of obeying the rules of 
debate as defined by liberal blackmail (in which, discomfort caused by a 
challenge is seen as some vague form of harassment)."

                                    -- Dwayne Monroe, 11/19/08

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