Henry Louis Gates Arrested in his own home

[EddyBeers]

Originally Posted by peter12

Steyn only mentions Gates' apparent ignorance of Shakespeare.

I just have a hard time believing the impartiality of the comments of a writer who has referred to :

-the Chinese as "Chinks",
-the Japanese as "Japs",
-Indians as "wogs",
-A man who has reminded the "Injuns" in his writings that they were beaten by the "white man"
-A man who has written about the "Yellow Peril" and the "g**ks",
-A man who refers to Muslims as "bedturbanned prophet-monkeys" who have a disproportionated share of the "rape market"

I have a hard time relying on this individual as a reliable authority on anything related to a man involved in a race controversy. I would imagine that Steyn is a much more likely candidate to have an "axe" to grind, but that is just my opinion.

[HOZ]

Originally Posted by EddyBeers

I just have a hard time believing the impartiality of the comments of a writer who has referred to :

-the Chinese as "Chinks",
-the Japanese as "Japs",
-Indians as "wogs",
-A man who has reminded the "Injuns" in his writings that they were beaten by the "white man"
-A man who has written about the "Yellow Peril" and the "g**ks",
-A man who refers to Muslims as "bedturbanned prophet-monkeys" who have a disproportionated share of the "rape market"

I have a hard time relying on this individual as a reliable authority on anything related to a man involved in a race controversy. I would imagine that Steyn is a much more likely candidate to have an "axe" to grind, but that is just my opinion.

Gee Eddy I now have a tough time taking you seriously. Way to take his comments out of context. You have never read the guy obviously. Don't forget he also said that Muslims were multiplying like insects in Europe too. That one landed him and McLean's Magazine in front of the BCHRC.

Maybe his comments hurt your feelings? You should join in on the CJC sock puppets that are trying to sue him and others and getting their butts kicked.


BTW* He quoted an Imam who said that.

I challenge you to actually pull up the full articles that put those comments in context. Steyn is certainly acerbic but no bigot.

[Shawnski]

Holy heck...

Well there is one person that isn't a Henry Gates fan, although he appears to have started out as one.... the chap that was part of the peer group that hired him at Harvard. Professor Martin Kilson taught at Harvard for 42 years, retiring in 1999. In 2000, he roasted Gates.

It is a rather lengthy read, but an interesting look into how one of his peers perceived him.

Henry Gates' intellectual arrogance is such that he thinks he can get people to believe just about anything.

One should never act weak in the midst of Gatesian autocracy...

So I try to advise my progressive Black intellectual peers especially to be wary of "King Gates" strategic offerings - his fish-hooks, if at all possible.

http://westafricareview.com/vol1.2/kilson.html

Wow....

[HOZ]

Originally Posted by Shawnski

Holy heck...

Well there is one person that isn't a Henry Gates fan, although he appears to have started out as one.... the chap that was part of the peer group that hired him at Harvard. Professor Martin Kilson taught at Harvard for 42 years, retiring in 1999. In 2000, he roasted Gates.

It is a rather lengthy read, but an interesting look into how one of his peers perceived him.



http://westafricareview.com/vol1.2/kilson.html

Wow....

Wow is right. Portrays Gates as a snob towards Africans.

The irreverence associated with snide comments about the historical authenticity of the Coptic Church's claim of possessing the Ark, and the related irreverence associated with Gates' posturing about climbing the gate to the hallowed site where the Ark is located. Henry Gates wouldn't dare behave with such flippant and infantile irreverence in a comparable visit to a traditional sanctuary of Judaism in Israel, of the Church of England, of the Holy See in Rome, or anywhere else in the West. He wouldn't dare, I assure you....This kind of behaviour by Henry Gates is reserved only for Black-world realities! And that Gates can quote to his readers a fawning comment on "Wonders of the African World" by the current governing class in Ethiopia as a serious rebuttal of the charge by Mazuri and others that his demeanor as interviewer was irreverent toward traditional sanctuaries of African civilization is another dimension of Gates' myopic self-importance. His chutzpah too

Though I will say the writer seems to have an axe to grind

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Shawnski

Holy heck...

Well there is one person that isn't a Henry Gates fan, although he appears to have started out as one.... the chap that was part of the peer group that hired him at Harvard. Professor Martin Kilson taught at Harvard for 42 years, retiring in 1999. In 2000, he roasted Gates.

It is a rather lengthy read, but an interesting look into how one of his peers perceived him.







http://westafricareview.com/vol1.2/kilson.html

Wow....

Haha, in an academic review, no less! Good find!

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

Well, in fairness you were going by what was widely reported. You can't blame yourself for that. It goes to show that it's probably wise for all of us to wait for all the facts before getting indignant about these things!

Otherwise, I'm not sure how it affects the merits of each side. It does mean that there is at least one factual error in Off. Crowley's police report, but I think under the circumstances it's an understandable and forgiveable one.

I guess it is nice to know that there are people out there concerned about the well being of their neighbors and associated property without automatically assuming the worst at the same time.

[Bagor]

Originally Posted by peter12

Haha, in an academic review, no less! Good find!

Slow down a bit.

At the risk of belittling it ... it's worth noting on a quick google that the journal only came into existence in late 1999 (deadline for submissions to the first copy Nov 30 1999). This was probably the second or third issue of the journal.

Such is the state of communication in academia that instead of a phone call, coffee and a shared spliff it takes 500+ words in an embryo journal to portray a message to a colleague.

At least with the latter I suppose you can throw it under 'publications'.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Bagor

Slow down a bit.

At the risk of belittling it ... it's worth noting on a quick google that the journal only came into existence in late 1999 (deadline for submissions to the first copy Nov 30 1999). This was probably the second or third issue of the journal.

Such is the state of communication in academia that instead of a phone call, coffee and a shared spliff it takes 500+ words in an embryo journal to portray a message to a colleague.

At least with the latter I suppose you can throw it under 'publications'.

Haha, good catch!

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by peter12

This "event" has inspired him to make a documentary on racial profiling. Please... maybe he can get some pointers from Obama next time they meet for a beer. The attainment and proliferation of wisdom is not Gates' intent.

Apparently that is today!

Obama, Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., will meet at the White House on Thursday, each one drinking his favorite beer, in a public attempt to move past the emotional event.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32210408...s-white_house/

[troutman]

From Conan - Blue & Black Lager:

http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrie...72909/1140390/

[metallicat]

Good on all three of them to meet at the White House. I hope it's more just three people shooting the breeze than anything else.

Hopefully this is the ending to the story.

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Good on all three of them to meet at the White House. I hope it's more just three people shooting the breeze than anything else.

Hopefully this is the ending to the story.

Officer Crowley is going to arrest himself a couple of uppity...

[HOZ]

I have no doubt Gates will take this opportunity, in the White House with his close friend the President, to browbeat Crowley. No admission of fault whatsoever. They should have met for beers at Crowley's house. A change of home turf would have been good for the Harvard Grads.

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by HOZ

I have no doubt Gates will take this opportunity, in the White House with his close friend the President, to browbeat Crowley. No admission of fault whatsoever. They should have met for beers at Crowley's house. A change of home turf would have been good for the Harvard Grads.

I thought that, and I sincerely hope it doesn't happen. After I made my last comment though, I read a remark by Obama stating that this could be used as a "teachable" moment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090730/...FtYWJlZXJ3aXQ-

BTW - isn't Obama half white himself?

[Bagor]

Would love it if Gate's house was burgled whilst he's beering it up.

[Gozer]

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

I thought that, and I sincerely hope it doesn't happen. After I made my last comment though, I read a remark by Obama stating that this could be used as a "teachable" moment.

I still haven't figured what I'm supposed to learn, other than race pimps are scumbags, but I already knew that. Obama would seem to be the only one who should be learning a lesson.

[CaptainCrunch]

Lucky I wasn't the cop, because after a couple of beers, I go into face punching mode.

[troutman]

Top Ten Things Overheard At The White House Beer Summit (Letterman)

"Don't worry, Biden will clean up the empties"
"Guys stop me if I try to drunk dial Nancy Pelosi"
"Smoking, drinking. Suddenly our president is Artie Lange"
"Let's call Limbaugh and take this party to the next level"
"I feel dizzy and confused -- just like Bush! Hi-yoo!"
"I don't want to freak anybody out, but I just saw Nixon walking down the hall"
"Tell Geithner to put his shirt on"
"Senator Larry Craig asked if he could have his beer brought to the men's room" (still a reference, people)
"You guys wanna see where Clinton used to get freaky?"
"Excuse me while I take a presidential leak"

[HOZ]

/\/\/\/\ Sweet. Loved the Tequila one too from Gozer