Well, actually it’s just one city with two examples of what seems to be an unsolvable problem.

In one case, parents of students at the now infamous Fenger High School are planning to boycott the school by keeping their children home to protest what they see as a lack of security against gang violence. In the other, 6 black college students from St. Louis are threatening action against a locally famous bar for refusing to allow them entry because of what they claim is racial discrimination.

At Fenger parents are claiming the Chicago Public School Board and the Chicago Police are not doing enough to keep their children safe. It was outside Fenger that honor roll student Derrion Albert was brutally beaten to death by gang members wielding 2 X 4’s. The fatal beating was caught on video by one of the many witnesses who stood by and watched. A number of Fenger students have been charged with the murder and police are continuing their investigation. This past week 5 more students were arrested for fighting inside Fenger. The brawls are part of the “turf war” between local gang members and those from a nearby housing project.

Chicago’s black community is rife with gang activity. Parents of students who just want an education have every right to be fearful, but what they hope to accomplish by this proposed boycott is unclear. The problem is with the gang bangers not the school. The only possible solution from a police standpoint is to have armed police officers roaming the hallways of the school. This would pull them off their duties outside the high school and would only serve to increase tensions and crime rates on the street. It would also most certainly cause local community activists to portray the police in school as an abuse of power and a violation of the student’s constitutional rights of free assembly. Chicago has already tried to institute action against groups of 2 or more gang members gathering on the street only to have it struck down as unconstitutional by the courts.

The incident at Mother’s bar in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood involved 6 black college students who were not allowed inside by security because of their gang related attire. The 6 wore baggy pants and had their caps on backwards. While this is seen in the suburbs as a fashion statement it is understood in urban areas as a sign of gang affiliation. The manager of the bar was inclined to allow them inside until the 6 backed him into a corner with aggressive behavior and shouting. At that point any hope for resolution was lost and the students were forced to leave. They claim that they traded clothes with some white friends who were allowed entry and are making that their basis for claims of racial discrimination.

So police and private security can do nothing if you associate with gang bangers, dress like a gang banger and even admit to being one. But let gang bangers do what they do and then these same security and police forces are at fault for not doing enough to stop him. How do you win that?

Police can arrest the perpetrators of violence after the fact, but they are legally limited in how much they can proactively do to prevent it. The bulk of that responsibility for action lies within the black community. The community, led by their vocalists (they are far more vocal than active), is quick to complain about too much or too little action being taken, but the only action that will make a meaningful difference must come from within the community.

The greatest threat to a member of the black community is from another member of the black community. Not the police, not security guards and not racism.

Change the attitude in the community, or change the law so police have legal authority to be proactive, or get used to it.

Racism!

Oh sure, Mayor Daley is white and Chicago has a majority of white residents. But the fact that Chicago was represented by America’s historic first black President and black First Lady can only mean that the International Olympic Committee is racist in their snubbing of the Windy City. The voting committee was probably sitting back in their council room taking the vote while wearing white robes and hoods.

Barack and Michelle are from Chicago so it is no wonder that they would chose to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to fly the President, his extensive entourage and security detail to Copenhagen. And look at who else made the trip. Oprah Winfrey, well known celebrity, Chicago resident and lifelong black person. And who did Chicago use to make the Olympic pitch from an athlete’s perspective? Michael Jordon. Recent Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, 6 time world champion with the Chicago Bulls, business entrepreneur and black guy about town.

Granted, the people who stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars selling their dilapidated slum tenements to the city for demolition in the building of the Olympic Village are mostly white. Folks like David Axelrod, the president’s chief political advisor and his business associates at AKPD who have been the lead group in Chicago’s Olympic publicity campaign and paid tens of millions of dollars already. Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to the president who “divested” her Chicago real estate holdings to her close business associates at the Habitat Company who still hold them. And Patrick Ryan, chairman of Obama’s inauguration committee and CEO of Aon, the corrupt insurance giant recently hit with a $190 million corruption settlement and tapped to carry huge policies on the Olympic reconstruction.

Oh sure, most of those people are white. But the people who would be thrown out of those dilapidated buildings and given new housing elsewhere (in equally dilapidated conditions) are mostly black, so that should count for something.

No, there can be no doubt about it. This refusal to allow Chicago taxpayers to lose hundreds of millions of tax dollars hosting the 2016 Olympics while allowing the Democrat supporters and employees of our first black president to make huge profits can only be seen as blatant racism at its worst.

Pay no mind to the fact that Rio de Janeiro, who was granted the games, has many dark skinned people. As the president’s Chief of Staff and equally well connected Chicago politician Rahm Emanuel said, Chicago is just different. As Emanuel said in an interview with ABC (THE All Barack Channel) News, “The world will feel comfortable given the diversity of Chicago.”

Well, there you have it in a nutshell. The IOC is obviously not comfortable with diversity and therefore must be racist.

Chicago did everything they could to put its best foot forward spending millions of tax dollars in the worst economic conditions in nearly a century for the opportunity to spend hundreds of millions more tax dollars, but to no avail. The city was well represented by a black president, a black first lady, a black mega-millionaire celebrity and a black mega-millionaire athlete, all in an attempt to convince a group of middle Europeans of the city’s diversity. But diversity is not what these racists wanted.

Instead they gave the games to Rio, in a country with a white president, a city with a white mayor that has a huge white statue of a white Jesus overlooking it.

I think the reasoning here is pretty obvious, don’t you?

Well they may as well have been lynching’s as far as the poor victims are concerned. They’re just as dead.

It was another vivid example of what young blacks face in this country. These lynching’s were carried out without the use of rope or a tree, not by an angry group of white supremacists. They were committed by other young blacks, most of them in their teens. It was a rampage of violence carried out up close and personal. In the first there were no guns, no knives, just hands, feet and two by fours. In the end 16 year old Darrion Albert lie dead on the ground, having been savagely beaten. A beating that will likely be gracing the web site You Tube soon as it was caught on the video recorder of a witness’s cell phone, a common practice these days amongst black teens at gang fights. The beating occurred just outside Fenger High School where young Darrion was an honor roll student. It was part of a larger gang related melee between two rival gangs. Darrion just happened to be in the wrong place at the time as he was not a gang member.

Several other young black teens will not get to see their next birthday either, due to black on black gang violence. Some of the victims were in gangs but several more were not. One was a college student who had just returned home to pick up some additional clothes. As he stood on his front steps talking with a neighborhood friend a teenage gang banger walked up and shot both of them to death. There will be those that will foolishly focus on the gun rather than the hand that carried it, pointed it and pulled the trigger.

Once again just being young and black is enough to get you killed in the hood.

There were small rallies and 10 or 15 person marches protesting the senseless violence. News cameras recorded the tear filled faces of friends and families of the dead with local church pastors and neighbors trying to console them. But in Chicago, just like every other major city and smaller community nationwide, black on black crime is so commonplace that these tragic stories of death and family destruction will not garner a second day of newsprint. Not that they’re not important. It’s just that tomorrow there will be a whole new list of young blacks lynched without ropes by other young blacks.

But what do we hear from the black politicians? We hear that the problem in America is all about white racism. Newsweek’s recent cover story focused on the premise that white babies are actually racist. Blacks and liberal whites in Congress and the pundits that follow them claim that every dissenting vote against Barack Obama and every problem in the black community is caused by white racism. But the fear that grips the black community is not of racist white people. The fear that grips the black community is of the black community.

If whites had carried out these heinous killings the streets of the crime scenes would be jammed with news trucks and satellite dishes. The good Reverend JJ and his counterpart Jheri Curl Al would be ranting about how this was an example of the years of racist oppression. But Sharpton and Jackson didn’t attend the small rallies. Maybe their schedules were already filled or maybe they feared for their own safety on these mean streets. Or maybe their attendance at a rally against black on black violence wouldn’t support their rhetoric or lifestyle.

It’s a lot easier to blame white racism, especially when whites are willing to go along with the idea. But this constant drumbeat of racism does nothing to solve the real problem. In fact it just makes it worse.

16 year old Darrion Albert and the others from this past weekend are dead just because they were young and black. There were no ropes, no trees, no white hoods, no burning crosses, no swastikas, no discussion of hate crimes, no shaved heads, not a white face in the bunch except for the police trying to solve the crime.

No Racism. Just dead black kids and weeping black parents.

How many misrepresentations? How many instances? How many unqualified and unsubstantiated stories? How many times can this stupid racism card get played before someone has the stones to say “ENOUGH”!

The latest in what has become the never ending parade of poor black men suffering under the cruel yoke of racism comes from an area particularly close to my heart, my beloved Chicago Cubs.

The obviously emotionally unstable and equally mentally challenged 30 million dollar man Milton Bradley is giving the local press all they could ask for and more by turning his all too common vilipend tirades toward Cub fans, claiming he is the victim of their racist heckling. Of course when questioned for details or specific instances Mr. Bradley has none. He intentionally dodges questions as to why he has never asked for security to remove an unruly or racially abusive fan. He pouts like a 4 year old and blames the media for even asking the questions and claims they are well aware of both the answer and the instances.

Chicago Cubs security has confirmed that Bradley has never contacted them about any instance of racial slurs or over-the-top fan behavior.

Are there fans in the stands that make racial slurs towards players? In all the times that I have been at Wrigley Field over the past 55 years I cannot recall one instance of racial intimidation. But still, I’m guessing it happens. Any time you have adult males, alcohol and sports you will have some nitwit that wants to show off for his buddies by doing something completely stupid. I watched with shame and anger a few weeks ago as someone in a Cubs cap threw a full glass of beer of an opposing player as he attempted to catch a fly ball near the left/centerfield wall. It was a despicable act carried out by an obviously drunken clod. Security was on the scene immediately to eject the beer-filled bozo and I had hoped he might receive a little Chicago-style tune-up on the way out the gate or at least a free ride in a police car and a night in the drunk tank where he could spend a romantic evening with some other equally IQ challenged revelers.

My beloved Cubs are falling apart at the seams. Only weeks ago they were in first place and now they will need a miracle to get into the wild card playoff spot. It’s not that they lack talent. It’s that they lack stability and heart.

Players like Milton Bradley are like a cancer for a team. They are carriers of bad vibes. It doesn’t even matter that they have great ability and limitless potential. They drain the very lifeblood from the team like a vampire so they can steal as much personal time in the spotlight as possible.

Bradley complained about being in a restaurant and hearing the waitress make disparaging remarks about him at another table. Hey Milton, welcome to the big leagues! Countless people are going to be jealous of a guy that makes more every year than they could hope to win in the lottery. Plus, performance on and off the field matters a lot more than your color, especially here in Chicago.

Mr. Bradley, I suggest next time you take the field if you can pull your head out of wherever you have been keeping it you might want to glance up at the flags of retired numbers of Cub heroes. Number 14 Ernie Banks, Number 26 Billy Williams, Number 31 Ferguson Jenkins. There isn’t a Cub fan worth his salt that wouldn’t trade his first born for a chance to associate with these great Cub players who also just happen to be black.

Your shtick is getting old Milton. And if you think you can claim racism just because it will get you some extra attention or maybe deflect criticism from your lackluster play you picked the wrong ball park to do it in.

Take your money, go away and have a nice life.

Is there still a dividing attitude of racism in America? Yes, but it runs on both sides of the racial chasm. And while racism still exists, the perception or claims of racism is far greater than the actual occurrence.

You would be hard pressed to find a minority in this country that has not at some time experienced a situation that they considered racism. While each instance is different, I find many of the stories to be the same things white people have to deal with every day. White people get poor service in restaurants, inattentive and indifferent sales clerks in stores, we lose jobs, get passed over for promotions, get turned down for loans and credit cards, are made to feel insignificant by those with authority over us and have run-ins with police. But white folks rarely have the advantage of using racism as an excuse for our frustrations and disappointments. We are left to conclude that the person we are dealing with is an idiot or that our own actions may actually have played a part in the cards we are dealt.

Instead of focusing on the advancements made in race relations and minority opportunities available we focus our attention on insignificant annoyances that happen to everybody at some time. We have become so insanely politically correct on race that we have lost all concept of what racism is, where we have come from and where we are today.

When was the last reporting of a lynching in America? Do you suppose they still occur and the news media has decided not to cover them? Not likely. If there is a racial killing where whites kill blacks the news media is all over it with 24 hour non-stop coverage. If we had a lynching Jesse Jackson would be at the scene within hours looking for blood to smear on his shirt and Al Sharpton would be there claiming everything about white people is evil except their hair styles. The entire country would literally be turned on its ear and focused on little else for the next 6 months. It would be a shock to the entire country and rightfully so.

Golf Channel analyst Kelly Tilghman made an attempt at humor by saying other golfers would need to take Tiger Woods out back and lynch him if they wanted to win and almost lost her job. Tilghman was suspended for a month for the mere mention of the word. A garbage truck driver in Philadelphia was fired for hanging little a hangman’s nooses on his truck as a Halloween decoration because we, as a country, have become so politically correct and racially sensitive that we cannot discern between the image and the intent.

Lynchings were a dark page in our countries history. White thugs would gather up young black men who had committed some sort of inexcusable infraction like sitting in a whites only area or drinking from a whites only water fountain or looking at a white girl walk down the street and they would hang them from a tree as a sign of their brutal power and a warning to others of what happens to those that of cross them.

We have not had a lynching in this country for decades, but every single week across America 40 to 50 young black men are killed by other young black men. Each one of them is just as dead as the young men hung from trees. The reasons for these killings are usually equally inexcusable infractions like walking down the wrong street, selling dope on the wrong corner, flashing the wrong gang sign or having the wrong color bandana, disrespecting the shooter in any number of perceived ways or doing nothing at all but being in the wrong place.

Where are Jesse and Al at these killing? Where is the President, where is Reverend Wright, where is Professor Gates? Are they afraid to go into those neighborhoods? The carnage in the streets of black neighborhoods has become so commonplace that local news media outlets cover these killings simply as time fillers if there is no other news happening that day. There is no outrage. There is no call for a federal investigation. There is only tacit acceptance.

Most of these killings are carried out in full view of witnesses who are usually too afraid to give police any information out of fear of retribution. There is no difference between these killings and the lynching’s except the color of the attacker. We use ridiculous terms like “hate crime” to add some sort of delusional meaning to an act of violence, but the reality is the guy is just as dead whether the killer hated him or not, or whether the killer was white or black. Just imagine what would happen if the 40 to 50 killings every week on our city streets were carried out by marauding whites instead of other blacks.

And what do the black leaders and the white liberals blame for this urban holocaust? They blame the gun. How far would we have gotten in this country if we would have blamed the rope for lynchings? “The key to cutting back on these lynchings is a reduction in the amount of rope we have on the streets. If these guys didn’t have the rope they wouldn’t be able to hang anybody”.

Whenever I write about race invariably I will receive e mailed comments accusing me of racial prejudice. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I believe liberals are the epitome of racial prejudice.

I believe everybody should be held to the same level of responsibility. Blacks are just as capable as whites, entitled to the same struggles, the same disappointments and the same benefits. Liberals are the ones who believe that blacks are not capable of competing with whites. That is why we have this constant push to lower the standards and deflect blame. Liberals have created a welfare society with generation after generation of impoverished, dependent minorities who live in far greater fear of each other than of anything a white man will do to them. Liberals have made failure attractive and success nearly impossible. Once they have you in their endless system of hopeless despair liberals understand that you cannot break the narcotic hold welfare dependence thereby assuring them of your vote.

You can build all the schools you want but if the desks sit empty you have accomplished nothing. You can give all the job training you want but if it’s acceptable to just make babies and live off the welfare dole the lure of building a new and better life is lost. You can blame racism for the inequities in life or you can develop the necessary skills that will prevent anybody from holding you back.

Racism exists. From the white liberals who glorify the acceptance of failure and diminished standards, to the black leaders who preach excuses and justification instead of empowerment.

I listen carefully when the local newscasters drop their fake “buddy buddy banter” and read an actual news story. I am constantly amazed at the blatant attempt to give every detail of a crime except the race of the perpetrator.

In a recent TV news story several members of a white family were killed by the boyfriend of one of the daughters. Among the dead were the father, a sister and the grandmother. The daughter was seriously injured as was the mother of the family, all stabbed repeatedly in what was described as a blood bath. The TV news crews covered every aspect of the crime scene and the lives of the victims, going so far as having video of the murdered sister’s high school and the church they attended. They named the boyfriend and gave information about where he lived and worked. The only item missing from the report was that the killer was black.

The August 2nd Chicago Tribune ran a front page article, complete with pictures of a police news conference, detailing violent attacks on pedestrians in Chicago’s upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood. In the 531 word piece the paper detailed the attacks and the victims. The paper gave no description of the group of men who were sneaking up on unsuspecting victims, immediately beating them in the face and head and then stealing their wallets and cell phones. I thought perhaps as these attacks occurred at night and were so sudden and unexpected that nobody got a good look at the attackers. But a when I called the police desk I was told the perpetrators were a group of black men between 15 and 20 years old.

Why has it become standard procedure for news outlets to leave out racial description when discussing crimes committed by minorities? Don’t they think it is an important part of the overall description of the crime and the criminal?

As I explained yesterday, we cannot have a true and honest discussion without including all the facts. The ACLU is up in arms about the number of minorities pulled over by police, but until they catch these violent predators I hope that police pull over and investigate every group of young black men they see cruising the streets of Lincoln Park at night. God help us if the police ever get to the point of reluctance in investigating crimes because they don’t want to skew some study results on racial profiling. That would be as stupid and dangerous as announcing to your enemy when you are going to withdraw your troops.

I understand the frustration for every law abiding group of young black men that gets pulled over, but they must understand that the problem is not an act of prejudice but rather an investigation based on a description. They should be mad at the group of black attackers that caused the heightened sense of alarm. Police are not going to waste their time investigating groups of blacks if the description of the attackers is red haired Irish kids.

An honest and open discussion on race relations begins with honesty and openness, not some politically correct concept of protecting racial identity so as not to appear prejudiced. The Tribune online edition has a section of Chicago Police mugshots from recent arrests. I took a look at the latest 100 booking photos. The number of minorities was about 5 to 1 over whites. You can say it’s because police are focused on minorities but that doesn’t say that the minorities didn’t actually commit the crime. Look at the minority population in prisons, look at the number of minorities in the court system, look at the minority rate of high school drop outs, look at the minority rate of unwed pregnancy, look at the minority rate of single parent households, look at the minority rate of drug abuse, look at the minority rate of welfare recipients, all of these factors hopelessly binding them to a system of government handouts designed to keep them dependent and poor. All of this matters if we are going to actually be honest about race relations and move the discussion forward.

Or are we really just looking for more of the same.

We’ll bring this discussion to a head tomorrow.

As the country continues its preordained, politically correct discussion on race, the facts are getting skewed by the intentional misuse of misleading statistics. To be sure, statistical studies are an important tool in problem solving. But in order to find root cause solutions or even carry on a meaningful discussion one must first be willing to incorporate all the facts.

Industry has adopted a statistical system of process management and problem solving through the advancement of Six Sigma programs. These Six Sigma projects teach the importance of addressing all issues involved when attempting to find the root cause problem and implement solutions. The goal in these sometimes very time consuming activities is to zero in on the correct remedy rather than take a shot gun approach or worse yet attempt to debate a problem to death. It demands careful analysis and a true willingness to change based on the results of the study.

While the positive impact on industry from this approach has been profound, the supposed discussion the country is engaged in regarding race relations lacks several of the key features necessary for success. Rarely are all the facts addressed when discussing race and even less frequently is the discussion based on a willingness of all parties involved to actually change anything. We can discuss until we all turn blue, but rather than looking for solutions most of the discussion is simply trying to attach culpability.

Such is the case with the recent release of traffic studies of Illinois communities and the state as a whole. The Chicago Tribune carried a front page article ambiguously suggesting that while police search an inordinate percentage of minority driven vehicles at traffic stops, a higher percentage of white drivers actually have contraband found when searched. The study showed officers found contraband in 15.4% of the cases for minorities as opposed to 24.7% for whites. The ACLU jumped on this statistic as proof of unwarranted searches on minorities. But while it was mentioned that these were “consent searches” no other explanation of what that means was given. Once again, in an attempt to assure a particular conclusion not all the facts are included.

A “consent search” is conducted only if the driver gives his permission. There are actually very few “consent searches” performed, accounting for a mere 1% of all traffic stops. If the driver refuses the request to search his vehicle and officers still have probable cause to believe a search will render some form of contraband, other means are used to get legal authority to conduct the search. The results of these searches are not included in these statistics as they are no longer considered a “consent search”. The reality is that minority drivers are far less likely to allow a “consent search”, whether they have something to hide or not. It also shows that while whites are more likely to give consent they are not nearly as clever as they think they are in concealing their contraband.

The purpose of releasing these study results as they were is not to further the discussion on race but rather to promote a particular outcome to the discussion as illustrated by comments made by ACLU of Illinois spokesman Ed Yohnka. He said “There is just a predisposition to believe that minorities have contraband….. The data and indisputable nature of this is exactly what the president was talking about…..”

The ACLU is also filing complaints citing that in Chicago minority drivers are 4 times more likely to get searched than whites. But this statistic tells us nothing about the nature of the stop, the nature of the occupants in the car or the neighborhood in which the stop was conducted. I hate to break the news to the ACLU but there are a lot more drugs and guns rolling down the streets in the poor minority neighborhoods of Chicago than there are in the wealthy neighborhoods.

Just a quick glance at the violent crime statistics in the city will explain why more minority vehicles are searched. To somehow try to tie race to police enforcement without accounting for crime levels in the areas being patrolled is patently misleading and unimaginably dangerous.

If you want to have an honest and open discussion about race I’m all for it. But let’s start with all the facts and work our way from there.

More tomorrow.

“I’m sorry”. It’s easy to say. It must be. We seem to say it all the time whether we mean it or not.

Other than as an expression of grief where it is not used as an apology at all, such as “I am so sorry” said to the grieving widow at a funeral, “I’m sorry” has limited impact at best. That’s because it has various meanings depending on the situation. There is usually a whole other part to the sentence:

“I’m sorry” – I got caught
“I’m sorry” – you are going to be mad at me for a while
“I’m sorry” – I may have to deal with the consequences of my actions
“I’m sorry” – this didn’t work out like I had planned

Usually these two magic words have far less to do with remorse than they do with limiting consequence. They are kind of the first step in an attempt at the healing process, but not necessarily a good first step. Many times when we say “I’m sorry” we are simply attempting to close a page on what happened without having to actually change anything.

Just a month ago the US Senate unanimously passed a resolution sponsored by Iowa’s Democrat Senator Tom Harkin, apologizing to blacks “on behalf of the people of the United States, for wrongs committed against them and their ancestors under slavery and Jim Crow laws”.

This is the most disingenuous type of apology of all.

To apologize for something done by somebody else is tantamount to saying “I wouldn’t have done that”. It is an attempt to elevate oneself above the person or group that perpetrated the offense. It has absolutely no other meaning or relevance. It is as if the United States Senate apologized to the Vatican for the crucifixion of Jesus.

Quite frankly, the black community should be offended by this blatant attempt to pander their political support and pat them on the head like good little boys and girls. Senator Harkin said he was surprised that this had not been done 100 years ago. Well Senator, perhaps it is because 100 years ago our politicians were less pathetic.

6000 American lives were lost and $6 billion dollars was spent fighting over the issue of slavery. Over 360,000 of those killed were union solders, fighting against slavery. Over 99% of them were white. The war tore families’ apart and pitted brother against brother. The psychological damage and permanent physical disabilities caused by injuries is beyond measure. An American President was assassinated, not because of the end of slavery but because he was proposing voting rights for the freed slaves. If that is not enough of a commitment by the United States to those held as slaves then I doubt a meaningless bill 200 years later will have much impact.

Which brings us to this week at a picnic table set up just outside the oval office where the I’m sorriest President in the nation’s history will hold an apology-laden beer fest with the history of racial inequities once again the main topic of discussion. But please, look closely at the attendees of this photo op mea culpa-thon. It will be a black President of the United States and a black director of one of America’s most prestigious universities talking about how blacks have been held back to a white rank and file police officer.

The script to this absurd display is already written. The President will do what he does best, apologize. The white cop will explain that he was just doing his job and may even explain that he was taking the crazed professor into custody for his own protection. Professor Gates will do what he does best; prattle on about how the white man has been the black man’s problem for the past 200 years. He will also be dreaming of where to spend the royalty money from the book he will no doubt write about his harrowing experience.

Senator Harkin, I cannot apologize for slavery. It was a hideous practice but not one that I ever engaged in. But I sure am sorry to see we have come to this.

The President decided to jump into the fray of the poor black professor who was arrested by the mean-spirited white policemen in Cambridge, Mass. While admitting he didn’t know if race actually played a part in the arrest, Obama did make the presidential proclamation that the police “acted stupidly”. Then, putting it into crystal clear perspective, the Chosen One admitted that he was able to make this demeaning assessment of the police without knowing the facts of the case. Admittedly, I am depending on the press reports of the President’s comments as I chose not to watch his network love-fest, fee free infomercial on ObamaCare last night. My sock drawer needed my immediate attention.

Unfortunately the President omitted one key fact from his comments. That being he is a close personal friend of this black radical Harvard professor. I guess it’s comforting to know that this President of Hope and Change is close personal friends with both black and white radical professors as in Bill Ayers and Henry Louis Gates as well as a black radical pastor, a black radical Attorney General and a Hispanic radical judge . On second thought, comforting may not be the correct word.

The only reason this is even news is because the professor is black and the police are white. Henry Louis Gates is the director of Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute of African and American Research. As such, professor Gates should be familiar with the overwhelming statistics of black on black crime and black on white crime. But as this is a research institute at a major Ivy League University actual statistics are viewed merely as irrelevant obstacles.

The incident began when a white woman noticed two black men forcing their way into the front door of a home. Had this happened in a black neighborhood, where young black men are gunned down daily by other young black men, at high noon, in front of hundreds of witnesses but when police arrive no one saw anything, the incident would have most likely gone unreported. But as this was in an area where folks show their displeasure with possible home invasions, police were called.

Police reports show that when officers arrived Gates was in the house with the other man. When police asked this learned professional racist for identification to prove he belonged there, instead of understanding how his entrance may have looked to passersby and simply providing his ID thus ending the incident, professor Gates became belligerent and argumentative, insisting on causing a racially motivated confrontation. He told the officers they had not heard the last of him and demanded to know their names and badge numbers, which seems like a strange request from a collage professor as both are always clearly displayed on the officer’s chest. Gates did end up getting arrested. Not for breaking and entering but for disorderly conduct after angrily following the exiting officers from the house to continue his discordant racial tirade on the front porch.

The charges have since been dropped by the District Attorney due to political considerations rather than any legal ones.

I was stopped several weeks ago exiting a building by an Asian and a black police officer. They asked me my name and requested my ID. I provided what they asked for, they said thank you and I went on my way. The entire incident lasted all of about a minute. It never dawned on me that these officers were racially motivated as I was the only white guy amongst us three. I knew I did nothing wrong and simply assumed the officers were investigating some poor guy that looked similar to me. They asked, I obliged, we moved on. That seemed to me to be the logical thing to do in that situation and I’m not even a Harvard professor.

Was this Cambridge confrontation racially motivated? Yes. But it was racially motivated by the black guy not the white cops. Were the President’s comments racially motivated? Yes, but once again not by anything the white cops did. Hell, he admitted he didn’t even know the facts. The Right Reverend Jeremiah Wright must be so proud of his protégé right now that he is grinning from ear to ear.

If I was a Cambridge police officer Professor Gates would not have to worry about me ever showing up at his address again, regardless of the circumstances. But he can be assured that the officers in Cambridge will continue to protect his life and property by putting their own lives on the line, just as they thought they might be doing the night they showed up for the possible breaking and entering call at his house.

The professional Cambridge police officers did exactly what one would expect them to do. Unfortunately so did the Director of Harvard’s Institute of African and American Research and the 20 plus year member of Reverend Wright’s flock.