Yes, I said it: Obama is a racist. As the white, conservative mother
of black/Mexican/white children, I know a racist when I hear one. So
is his buddy, Henry Louis Gates. Don't let these two Ivy League-
educated, erudite, distinguished black men convince you that only
whites can be racists. Believe me, these two men are the worst kind of
racists: black and elitist.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a racist is someone who
believes "all members of each racial group possess characteristics or
abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as being
either superior or inferior to another racial group or racial groups."
When Sgt. Crowley investigated a possible burglary at Prof. Gates'
Cambridge home this week, Gates met a white cop at his door and
evidently assumed Crowley was a bad cop, a rogue, a racist cop who
would treat him differently than any other suspected perp, just
because he was black. That's racism, folks! What did Gates do when
faced with a police officer investigating a burglary in his home? Was
Gates polite and courteous to the cop? Did he cooperate and step onto
the porch out of the darkened home so Crowley could see his face and
ID? Did he calmly explain why a passerby saw him breaking in, if, in
fact, it was his own house? Did he speak or act like the esteemed
scholar and professor his ID claimed him to be?

Nope. He was belligerent, accusatory, uncooperative, irrational and
defamatory, throwing racial slurs at the white officer, even insulting
the cop's mother (as in, "Yo momma is so..."). If ever a man did NOT
act with Harvard professorial dignity and decorum, if ever a black man
acted like a thug from the ‘hood, Gates did. Is it any wonder Officer
Crowley asked for more ID, one that actually listed that house as his
address, or asked for another person to corroborate Gates' identity? I
would, wouldn't you?

And when Gates refused, and became so incensed and insulting to the
Sergeant who was there to protect his property that a crowd grew
around his house, was Crowley supposed to allow this kind of behavior,
just because Gates was black? No. He arrested Gates for disorderly
conduct, as he was trained to do. Last time I checked, police arrest
people regardless of race when they act like crazy people in the
presence of peace officers.

So why is President Obama a racist? Because he, like his friend Gates,
automatically assumed the white police officer "acted stupidly." BO
assumed it was the white officer's fault, because, of course, we all
know white cops are racist, right? And later, when he slightly
retracted his statement, he still felt the need to say, "It would have
been better if cooler heads had prevailed." By now he knew the facts,
that his friend Gates had lost his mind and acted like a fool, but he
assumed that Sgt. Crowley similarly lost it and "got all up" in Gates'
face, because, of course, that's what all white cops do.

But this white cop didn't, because he's not just any cop, he is an
expert at managing racial incidents just like this one became, because
of Gates' racism. Friends and fellow officers of all races say Sgt.
James Crowley is calm and reliable in situations racially hostile
situs, because he was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to
teach recruits how to avoid racial profiling, and Crowley has
apparently been doing a stellar job at it for 5 years.

But Gates and our esteemed president didn't know that, did they?

So, who are the racists in this story? Gates accused a decent,
decorated, above-reproach police officer of being a racist rogue cop,
just because he was white. What did our esteemed "black" president do?
He immediately took Gates' side, because he's a friend and black! Um,
Mr. President, I thought you were going to help erase the racial lines
that divide us? Shame on you for taking sides on something you
admitted you knew nothing about, for commenting nationally on a small,
local issue well beneath your pay grade, and for showing us all that
you are not that different that the racist Gates who believes all
white cops are bad cops, just because of their skin color.

Mr. President, you are a racist. Shame on you.