Gatesgate

From Western Voices World News, August 1, 2009

The brouhaha over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has had an effect that has proved to be surprising to those with a vested interest in the antiwhite racial status quo in America. Gates was arrested after screaming abuse at a police officer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sparking a heated controversy which drew the attentions of no less an august personage than the president himself. The spectacle was indeed a “teachable moment,” as Barack Obama arrogantly proclaimed, though not in the sense that he meant it. The “moment” taught white people that they don’t have to meekly accept being racially vilified as they have been for decades, and that “diversity,” far from being about fairness and equality, is a code word for institutionalized contempt of European Americans. In the aftermath of “Gatesgate” Obama’s once stellar approval ratings took the first of what will become many plunges. According to a Gallup Poll, Obama’s “support among Whites and Hispanics also declined, with only 48 percent of white Americans approving of the president’s performance–that marks the first time in July that a majority of white Americans did not support the president.”

Obama was elected largely because liberal whites in states with comparatively low black populations enjoyed a kind of self-righteous pleasure in conforming to the blanket “mainstream media” support of Obama and decades of compounded ideological white guilt to vote for the man who would become “America’s first black president.” The same kind of affirmative action that put Obama in the Oval Office is the same kind of thinking that gave Henry Louis Gates, Jr. his job at Harvard. But the kind of hubris such gifts instill in many blacks covers the reality that whites, in exchange for their largess, expect something in return, namely that the blacks they help will reciprocate by at least paying lip service to the ideals of “equality” and “tolerance” which everyone politely pretends to agree is the achievable goal. Instead, more and more whites see that what they get is usually demands for more, couched in defiant and abusive language. With a black man now holding the “highest office in the land,” that’s not going to go over as well as it once did at Starbucks and Whole Foods.

This is starting to dawn on Obama and his handlers, who still seem to think that the fawning press reflects real-world opinion and that their social engineering has worked. For the first time a “black leader” actually backpedaled from demagogic histrionics, with Obama attempting to “clarify” his earlier remark about the Cambridge Police Department’s arrest of the belligerent Gates being “stupid.” In the face of widespread outcry from police and citizens alike, the Obama “reversal,” however tame, was significant, especially since there are indications that Obama had actually prepared the comment earlier and expected the question from his pet press corps.

The protected status of nonwhites has spawned a parallel world that exists artificially and thrives in intentional environments like college campuses and the halls of power, bounded by speech codes, hate laws, hiring quotas, a complacent press…and a flash mob once in a while on those rare occasions when whites get out of line. When exposed to the real world, however, the artificiality is often seen as the hoax it is. In the virtual world, though, Professor Gates himself is lionized as “America’s greatest living black scholar,” not because he competes in an objective field like, say, physics, but because he rules the racial scholarship roost as Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, itself a sheltered incubator that has swapped the political correctness of its Puritan founders for a new religion of “diversity” and “tolerance,” albeit with a fervor that would have made those Puritans seem liberal in comparison. Gates is well-known, alright…to viewers of the federal government’s taxpayer funded party-line Public Broadcasting Network, which is about as objective as the Brezhnev-era’s Izvestia. On PBS Gates presented two elaborate PBS miniseries called African American Lives which delve deeply into Gates’ racial obsessions with the well worn myths of white perfidy and black greatness. His numerous books populate library shelves and required-course reading lists, and dying liberal dead-tree media like The Nation snap his one-note articles up.

Cocooned in a climate where anything less than abject praise for Gates and his ideology is not only unthinkable but potentially fatal to careers and reputations, it is no surprise that Gates unleashed an abusive, uncontrolled and irrational rant at Officer Crowley, the Cambridge cop who would arrest him. Apart from making a snide remark about Crowley’s mother and scorn for Crowley’s role as a white, institutionally racist oppressor of “black men in America,” Gates had a point when he screamed at Crowley that he didn’t “know who you’re messing with!” Gates’ supercilious reaction was the end result of decades of artificial entitlement masquerading as achievement and carrying the whole might of the state behind it.

While the Old Media could be depended on to protect the status quo, that pesky internet upset the show again, with The Smoking Gun site releasing the police report online. The document was in need to some heavy PBS edits, painting Gates as an arrogant racist bully seeking to Mau-Mau this white cop who had evidently forgotten his lowly station and dared to question the great Harvard Professor, Doctor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Unexpectedly, the Cambridge police, brass as well as beat cops like a black officer who witnessed the Gates bust and vowed that “I won’t vote for Obama again,” closed ranks behind Crowley. So the hounding of the poor woman whose call to the police over what she thought was a break-in initiated the incident, began. Press attention was relentless, and numerous threats of violence caused her to fear for her safety and to go into hiding. . . . Read the rest of the article.