Barack Obama Slapped By Sgt. James Crowley. Harvard's Henry Louis Gates was arrested by Crowley

http://voteplz.com/obama/ What do you think of Barack Obama getting slapped by James Crowley? Obama didn't even know the police officer Crowley was going to react like that after he spilled his Bud Light on Gates and Obama.

Regardless of where you stand on this issue, there's no doubt that it has been the political talk of the day, even if much of it was disjointed, nasty, and ignorant, especially online. My first video blog, which asserts that Professor Gates was arrested for being an "uppity black man", has drawn over 355 comments on YouTube.com alone within one day, pushing it to over 2,700 views and the 14th most commented on video in the "News and Politics" section of the giant video-sharing site as of this writing. While demographic data is not yet complete, I can say just by combing through all of the comments that the viewers were overwhelmingly male, and about 80 percent white and 20 percent "of color" at first, then on the second day more people identifying themselves as black (who really knows in the comment section, right?) pushing the result to about 60 percent white to 40 percent of color.

Some of the comments were nasty and some were excellent, but the one I liked best of all was not on YouTube, but on Facebook and made by my long-time friend and Oakland, Bret Harte Junior High School classmate Lars Frkyman (who stared with my other long-time Oakland friend from the same school and from Skyine High School, Bill Boyd, in my "Star Trek Review" vlog), who wrote (and I reprint this with his permission): You keep fighting that good fight against prejudices. As a white guy growing up in Oakland I was beaten several times cause of the color of my skin by a bunch of ignorant angry...fill in the blank.Later in life I've been hassled by white cops because of the length of my hair and my unshaved face. I think it must be human nature to exert power over anything, whether it be pit bulls, gray hounds, the homeless, gays, women, men you name it, humans will abuse it. I guess the sad fact is there's a bully in every crowd. We've come a long way but we sure do got a long way to go eh? ps Obama's right..stupid cop! No apology necessarry Lars

Lars is right. The Crowley / Gates incident was one of institutional racism on the part of Crowley, versus classism on the part of Gates. Crowley keeps saying "I went by the book" which opens the door to the kind of racial profiling African Americans and others are just plain tired of. "Going by the book" just means that Crowley didn't use his own judgment in the matter, plus he let his ego get in the way when he realized this "black man" was yelling at him and not following his orders. Gates' was angry that Crowley entered his house (without a search warrant) and from his point of view did not show him his police ID or look at the professor's identification, and so was going to "inform Crowley of who he was".

Two yaks ramming heads. Only one of the yaks, Gates, represented a group of people who'd had it. Racial profiling has been the bane of the African American existence for too long, and Obama's comment that the "Cambridge Police acted stupidly", even if his words may have been poorly selected, was right on and struck a cord from sea to shining sea. For Crowley to behave with the proper judgment in this case, many agree, would have been to make no arrest at all. But some officers are hard-wired to feel (not think) they have to make an arrest if the person's black, at least that's the perception of most African American (especially in the wake of the Oscar Grant shooting) and many whites too, like this commenter on my first YouTube video on this issue: ALL of you are blaming everyone but whos responsible. First the media was the first person to play the race card to be exact it was CNN. Why because it will sell they know it why dont you? I am irish and white my family came to america in the 1910's we where hated by EVERYONE but my family overcame and if you want to blame someone blame the press they are the ones who plaster black men on the news every damn day and now you wonder why people are scared of blacks. All of us need to put this down.

Or just have a good, ice-cold beer or two! In fact, that's what President Obama, Sgt. Crowley, and Professor Gates plan to do at The White House. According to Obama, it was Crowley's idea, and Gates accepted the invitation. In a statement provided to "The Root" , a website covering news from a black perspective where Gates "..if we can all use this to diminish racial profiling and to for poor people and for people of color...After all, I first proposed that Sgt. Crowley and I meet as early as last

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[radical228]

Good he needs to be slapped. He's not helping shit :P

[Shargrailar]

I have never seen someone who achieved so little get credit for so much.

What did he do again?, nobel peace prize for?, I like hype as much as the next person but I must have missed a memo?

Do we have hope and change yet? when does that land? someone pass me the koolaid I don't get this.

[mrsk8tr22]

I mean yeah, President Obama isn't doing much to help our country but I don't really think that anyone can help the crisis we're in right now.

[pcfd20]

I hate snakes, am i racist?

[blueangelsletsgo]

Funny pics, but i had to give it a thumbs down.

[kingladekahn]

I love these typical hick infested backwater comments, don't like job he's doing, don't vote for him! But complaining is not going to get shit done either. I love how people go on a YOUTUBE video to complain. Typical. This is why this country's evolutionary clock ticks backwards. Idiots.

[cortchubbby]

Keep drinkin that Kool Aid!

[sonnysidezup]

wow sumbody pretty much raped 4chan to put this video together

[mjs1231]

love the tsa

love the police state

love the new world order

and love government.

[ElectricIndica420]

@tubebitch12 at least he could party

[ElectricIndica420]

@1234chaz1234 procreation in an overpopulated population is selfish.

[ElectricIndica420]

@craigmusic1707 I believe in total Anarchy. Whether Violent or non violent, does not matter, there are no "Second Amendment solution" because the very concept of government at all, is slavery.