President Obama's highly anticipated sit-down with Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. over some brews is expected to take place early this week, administration officials said Sunday.
Obama extended the invitation Friday in phone calls to the two men as he tried to calm a furor over racial profiling and his comments this week that the police "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates. He invited both to share a beer.
What do you think? Frankly, if I was Crowley, I would decline, stating that I acted appropriately in the course of my duties, which is more than can be said for the President, and that I did not want to be part of a cheesy publicity stunt to distract the public from the fact that Obama is an elitist.
And what are those two going to talk to Crowley about - race relations? Make him sit and listen to a lecture from Gates on the history of Black oppression in America? Badger him to admit there are examples of racist cops so Obama can feel his statements are justified?
Maybe I would go . . . if only to look at the beer and say, "This is it? I was expecting from the leader of the free world a '62 Pouilly-Fuissé, which is really more my style . . ." There is something patronizing about the expectation that everyone would sit down to "share a beer."
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I think it is patronizing as well, and I definitely would not attend - "I did my job" is the only excuse Crowley needs to offer.
'62 Pouilly-Fuissé ??? I just hope it's not a "40" of Colt 45 Malt Liquor.
*Cuz THAT would be rascist.
Love the title shout out to Cream.
(showing my age here)
Don't drink the Koolaid!
The local Boston media is still on it. The 911 tapes are in.
I'm so confused now, so we can't described identifying features of an individuals now at all?
In the latest AP report, they mention Professor Gate's race.
"A Cambridge police sergeant who responded to a 911 call about a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr....."
Dittos on the "patronizing." I'd tell zero and Gates they can shove their beer right up their (can I say "asses" on your website?)
There is no way I would show up for a "beer." Who knows what they would mix into the beer!
I'm so confused now, so we can't described identifying features of an individuals now at all?
It made conservative talk radio locally, but the UW-Milwaukee system, as well as some news reports, made a point to omit the race of suspects, preferring to say the armed robber(s) who just shot a man to death are "young men in their 20s with red hooded sweatshirts and jeans" - which just about fits any male on any given college campus.
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