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July 27, 2009
Cambridge Police Speak From the Heart as they Support Officer Crowley
This video has been going around the Internet lately. I saw it first over at Neo-Neocon, so my hat tip is to her. Watch it fast before it disappears from the CNN website. This is so damaging to Obama that someone there is likely to think the better of it and send it down the memory hole.
Maybe Allahpundit says it best
God only knows how much heat she and Sgt. Lashley will take from the "authenticity" police for this; Crowley's a spectacularly lucky guy to have friends like them. In fact, I'm thinking that beer date at the White House to discuss "tolerance" might not be such a bad idea if Crowley gets to bring Kelly King along. Skip Gates and The One might just learn something.If you're looking for postracial America, you've found it.
Ditto that. Not much "post-racial" about our president or country that I can see.
Most interesting is the response of Officer King. She's she's bright and articulate and speaks from the heart. Obama has let her down tremendously and she's quite pained about it. There's not anyone more bitter than a spurned lover, and given his cult-like levels of support, if he lets them down they could turn on him and fast. If Obama doesn't get his act together his slide downward could accelerate.
I wasn't there when Officer Crowley arrested Henry Louis Gates, so I don't know what happened. My guess is that the officer didn't need to arrest Gates, but that Gates acted like a jerk and is claiming racism where there is none. What I do know is that it was entirely inappropriate for President Obama to weigh in, especially after admitting that he didn't know all of the facts.
Via TWS, here's the transcript of King's remarks:
Q: What did you think when you heard about these charges against Sgt. Crowley?King: "I was appalled. I know Jimmy...I know him to be a good police officer, a good man with character, and I knew these charges were bogus. There has been a tremendous rush to judgment, and I think the thing to be learned first and foremost from this is to look at all of the evidence, to consider all, to weigh all.
I think Prof. Gates has done a very good job of throwing up a very effective smokescreen, calling race into this. It had nothing to do with it.
Q: And, the President?
King: "It's unfortunate, I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again...I think it's admirable that he would speak on behalf of his friend, but he should have recused himself. He should have stepped back, and he should ahev said, "I support my friend, but I don't ahve all the facts. I won't weigh in yet.'"
Q: What do you have to say to people who may have already made up their minds about Sgt. Crowley?
King: "Keep their minds open and realize that we would not support someone who we felt wronged someone else. We took this job to do the right thing. We all took this job to do the right thing.We would not support anyone in blue doing the wrong thing.
Posted by Tom at July 27, 2009 9:45 PM
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Agreed, Kelly King and Jim Crowley are post-racial, they are just good cops doing their job, focusing on the content of ones character.
Obama and Gates are the opposite: Gates' career is a race-baiting rabble rouser at Harvard, and Obama follows in the footsteps of Rev. Wright, the racist preacher he sat and listened to for 20 years in Chicago.
Hopefully we can boot out Obama in 2012 and get a true post-racial president to represent us.
I am with Kelly King: I was appalled by Obama. I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again'
Posted by: Al Branson at July 28, 2009 3:26 PM
The topic of race relations is a thorny one for me. Let me explain.
I opposed my parents' views on race relations. Out of respect for my parents, I didn't argue with them too much. But I did break with them over the issue, and we eventually came to a truce: that I would have black friends even if my parents would not.
When BHO uttered the words "acted stupidly" at the SCRIPTED press conference on July 22, I gasped. Literally. I worry about what he may have set in motion -- harm to race relations in the United States. I am glad to see BHO's approval numbers falling, but I'm concerned about the cost on the social level.
In my view, BHO himself is a racist -- never mind his protestations to the contrary. Indeed, his books show that he despises "white folks" to a certain degree.
Posted by: Always On Watch at July 30, 2009 8:08 AM
I agree with your assessment that Barack Obama has probably set in motion a lot of harm to race relations in the United States. But it all started with his liberal friend, Henry Gates, who racially profiled a white cop and assumed he was racist, and started yelling racist language at him while being uncooperative.
I think Gates and Obama would normally have set racial relations back...but since we have the alternative media, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Fox News, and the internet, all of us -- Kelly King, Leon Lashley, Jim Crowley-- all of us can just ignore racists like Gates and Obama and continue to live the ideal of MLK.
We cannot let race baiters and race agitators like Obama, Gates, and ACORN ruin the good relations we now have between the races.
Posted by: Al Branson at July 30, 2009 3:56 PM
Al and AWA - Thank you both for stopping by and for your thoughtful comments.
Posted by: Tom the Redhunter at July 30, 2009 10:10 PM
