It’s Friday… tgif… and the month of July has been active … Racially, though i am sure the following incidents are only a small fraction of problems regarding race …this Month …
the News brought these to We the People the following :
65 Black/Hispanic kids being turned away by racist comments by members at a Pool that they actually paid to use… a black paramedic gets choked by a white officer while a patient in the back of the emt truck nearly dies… a conservative circulates a picture of the President of The United States with a bone in his nose… a Democrat/Senator uses the N word… Professor Gates gets arrested in his own home for acting tumultuously… an Indian man gets forced out of line at the airport and physically frisked… a black mentally disabled man is tased in 3places and pepper sprayed for being in the bathroom for too long, gotta say they have to do something !!!!! about this !!!!!!
** gotta say that there are misleading headlines by writers(steve holland/reuters) trying to pull in readers and that is not cool… Obama did not make a racial remark… he stated that the Cambridge police acted stupidly… that was not a racial remark
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what happened to professor Gates… my take…
1) anyone with common sense wants the police to do their job … 2) there was no crime being committed … a neighbor? called 911 stated 2Black men were breaking into a residence… ok that is where Race became an issue...Edit… it has been verified that the caller did not comment on race so hopefully everyone who has been on her will back-off
Professor Gates just came back from a trip he gets home and while in his home he is asked for not only entry but for ID, the Professor was said to have given it to the Officer, he also made a call to the Chief and became loud … ok the point that seems to have been missed is … The Officer did in fact get a look at Professor Gates ID… confirmed he lived there… at that point he should have left, i agree with most he was in his own home and was pressed for more info as if the Officer did not in fact believe the Professor and because Gates became obnoxious … the offended officer decided to control the situation.. again, after establishing ID he should have left the premises… it was the Professors home , his property… it’s my contention that the officer reacted to what Professor said … what does this say about the current training?
below is just another story of Does race Matter?
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BY
Mary C. Curtis
Rep. Carolyn Maloney Apologizes Over N-word Slip
It’s a simple rule for politicians: Never start your campaign with an apology. And another good one: Refrain from using racial epithets, even when you’re quoting someone else. It’s never going to come out quite the way you intended.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, is apologizing for using the n-word while retelling a story intended to damage her opponent. All she’s managed to do is damage her own chances.
“I apologize for having repeated a word I find disgusting,” Maloney said in a statement. “It’s no excuse, but I was so caught up in relaying the story exactly as it was told to me that, in doing so, I repeated a word that should never be repeated.”
Maloney’s aides say she will proceed with plans to formally announce her candidacy next week for the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand. City Hall, a biweekly publication and political Web site, quoted Maloney criticizing Gillibrand in a story dated July 17:
“I got a call from someone from Puerto Rico, said [Gillibrand] went to Puerto Rico and came out for English-only [education]. And he said, ‘It was like saying n-r to a Puerto Rican,’ ” she said, using the full racial slur. “I don’t know — I don’t know if that’s true or not. I just called. I’m just throwing that out. All of her — well, what does she stand for?”
Gillibrand’s aides say she opposes English-only education, a controversial issue, particularly among Hispanics.
Though there is no good time for this sort of gaffe, Maloney’s came not long before her Monday night New York fundraiser, attended by former President Bill Clinton. At that event, when asked about the incident, Maloney told the New York Daily News, “I issued a statement and the statement speaks for itself.”
She also noted, “We are a multi-racial country and we are all working together, moving forward.”
No one is accusing Maloney of being a racist, not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, who nevertheless said in a release: “No public official, even in quoting someone else, should loosely use such an offensive term and should certainly challenge someone using the term to him or her.” Then again, Sharpton has formally endorsed Gillibrand’s Senate bid.
It is fair to question Maloney’s judgment, especially since she said in the interview that she didn’t know if the story told to her was true or not.
And the Senate race hasn’t really started yet.
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