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[kabrams]

[mises]

Here are some interesting articles from across the right (conservative to libertarian) on this topic.

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=2886

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0727hs.html

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=2880

http://www.reason.com/news/show/135039.html

[Triban]

This is such a stupid topic. You are beating a retarded horse. HE SHOULD HAVE POLITELY INFORMED THE POLICE THAT THIS WAS HIS HOUSE AND SHOWN THEM HIS ID. Instead, he proceeded to cry wolf...err, racist. Stop trying to make some huge racial issue over this incident. It was in fact the fault of the accused. If you have to cry foul, call it on the man who assumes every police officer is a racist; that is racism in itself.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Triban]

Gates is being racist by belligerently accusing the officers of being racist themselves; I never referred to the police as a race, I was referring to the action of Gates screaming racist. Gates sees a white man and jumps to conclusions...wait, isn't that...racial profiling? [Mod Edit]!

[kabrams]

[kabrams]

[Hater Depot]

I don't see the need to follow this case as closely as many seem to be. More info and evidence will keep coming out and there will likely be a lawsuit that brings everything out, and then we can all see what we think based on that. Anything else strikes me as speculation for its own sake.

[kabrams]

[Gopher]

Kabrams: you seem consumed by the same hypersensitivity re: race that consumes H. Gates.

This topic has become the race, class, and gender people's new cause c�l�bre, and for what? Police response to a break-in report? I imagine 9/11 dispatchers ought to ask whether the suspects and homeowners are African-American next time, and if they are, do not send any white police to the scene as that would be racist. Better yet: do not respond at all. Would not want to offend African-American and race, class, and gender sensibilities, would we?

This story is about an overly-suspicious neighbor, watching everyone else's houses; and about a hypersensitive, histrionic, and hyperbolic African-American homeowner who became unreasonable with the police because he sees everything through a racist lens and because he became angry with the responding officer for doing his job. Y punto.

[Triban]

^This^

[bacasper]

[Gopher]

More than that, Bacasper. What we see are the origins of desegregation's nonviability.

Perhaps blacks and whites would be better off in their own neighborhoods, with their own police officers and schools, etc., etc., etc., and ought to avoid "interfering" in the others' sphere, "harassing" the other side's day-to-day lives, as much as possible while inhabiting the same country.

Anything but these neverending allegations that all of us who are white all inveterate, malicious racists, while all those who are black are good and pure and just victims, until the end of time...

[djsmnc]

"It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expense of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race"

-Thomas Jefferson

[bacasper]