Jim Pasco, executive director of the FOP’s legislative office, noted that before Obama made the remarks, the president acknowledged that he was only vaguely familiar with what happened.
“That being the case, it’s unfortunate that he chose to say anything,” Pasco said. “He wasn’t there, and he doesn’t know what happened.”
How can the President choose sides when he doesn’t know the facts. He’s basically said the police officer is at fault and it sounds like he’s going Al Sharpton on us. How does this police officer get his name back if Obama is wrong. Very reckless.
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1 RP Miller // Jul 30, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Those who are black males in the USA know all too well the pain of stereotyping by the police. They’ve, nearly all, lived it.
Those who’re white males who have not had close black male friends who’ve disclosed this to them — those white males just don’t, and can’t, “get it.” As a very discrete white male, now retired, who happens to have a number of close black friends throughout live, and as one who has known the business end of a policeman’s billy club just for being assumed to be gay because I was talking with gay friends, I “get it.” Unless you’ve walked in their shoes, you don’t. We are all racists — denied or not! How we identify with either Prof. Gates OR the white policeman who cuffed him (without sufficient reason– check out the police report! ) — How and with whom we identify tells much about how well we understand our own racist feelings. Most straight, white males, just don’t get it! And they fear losing the privilege they’re starting to lose.
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