Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-Push Coalition, and the rest of the industry of outrage that make a living off of spreading such a victimhood mentality in their communities have been doing it for years. To be very honest its one of the reasons newly immigrated blacks from Africa or the Caribbean have a very hard time fitting in to such communities. As immigrants they see the opportunities in front of them as blessings and they cannot comprehend why some domestic, multi-generational black Americans won't seize them. Victimhood is a state of mind first and foremost. Overcoming the barriers that keeps one down is exceedingly liberating.
But on Chicago's south side, fellow African Americans make large sums of money convincing some that they must remain angry, suspicious, and sadly--victims.
One would think that Obama's ascendency to the White House could have hoped to have turned that idea, even just a little bit, on it's ear. One would believe that if a man running for President was going to make the ideas of "hope and change" come about that he would let those fundamentally good virtues take root in his own heart first.
One could probably justify Obama’s misstep and say it had been a hard week, his plans that he had labored long hours over (universal government sponsored health care) were twisting in the wind and up in smoke and that even his own horrible performance in his press conference had left him so exhausted and he simply dropped his guard for the final question.
If that is true then the first thing that should have happened the following morning was a publicly issued apology for tying the Cambridge Police Department to, in Obama word's, "the long history of racial profiling."
He should've also on some level taken ownership and admitted that he was the one “acting stupidly” in calling the Cambridge Police stupid.
It also would go against nature to do so. At least the nature that has poisoned the minds of those who have made a living on Chicago's south side teaching their children to trust gang-bangers more than uniformed officers, especially when significant numbers of Chicago's finest are in fact African Americans, who love and wish to protect the streets they come from.
And one aside here concerning Mr. Gates, maybe next time the President could advise his friend to also respect the police and simply show them his identification, instead of immediately becoming belligerent and calling the officers racist, especially when they've simply shown up to help protect his home.
Clean living and a slow temper solve many of life's problems in advance.
But so does waiting till you have all the facts before slandering those who protect and defend us.
Doing otherwise is just plain stupid!