Henry Louis Gates Jr. Roundtable

Georgetown University's Michael Eric Dyson and columnist Kathleen Parker discuss with Bob Schieffer the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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[aquarianrican]

Education & Love are always a threat to ignorance/hate especially when coming from non whites

[willia3r]

I like this conversation. Michale Eric Dyson was on point as usual but this columnist Kathleen Parker seems to show some suprisingly independent & very nuanced thinking that I do not often see among fairly well-off white people.

Usually I see white folks echoing the typical talk-radio/southern strategy/conservative talking points but Mrs. Parer shows a surprising willingness to break from that & talk in a realistic view about race-relations.

[MrCope456]

The problem with black America is not racial profiling or white racism The problem with black America is one of moraliy. Why don't black leaders tell blacks that maybe they should behave better? Maybe not have 70% of black babies out of wedlock? How about teaching manners and respect to young black males? Young black males act horribly. How many go to church? How many stand on the street corner selling dope? How many carry guns? They need to start acting white (kind, decent, caring, respectful)

[torr59622]

Ive heard that argument before in college.Who gets to decide your level of detachment from your "group"?

[cyndan]

@torr59622 It's sort of like an oxymoron, right? Here is my claim as it pertains to discrimination or any form of prejudicial practice: I have no problems with conforming to Westernized thinking, for it is the predominate ideology here in North America and for me, it only means ADJUSTING to survive. However, I do have a problem with assimilation, for it is a delusional and self-compromising ideology that affects your self-integrity; which usually leads to detachment from your identified group.

[torr59622]

When you see that Dyson gets more tv and radio airplay than Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, or even Henry Gates himself, you start to see that Dyson's style is flash over substance. Im always suspect of those who inject race where it doesnt belong-its been a road map for success for a long time for many.

[torr59622]

Maybe.Fame and money can be a drug. Before his Cosby book, he was a Princeton educated HipHop Prof. no one knew outside of education. He countered Cosby after his famous rant and took him to task for not only airing black dirty laundry, but also made a case that urban black youth SHOULD run against the mainstream, and to deny"white" american mores is perfectly ok.I cant find anyway to justify that he believes that to be true, when he took the EXACT opposite route to success.

[cyndan]

@torr59622 Definitely relative....Do you think that Dyson's race related topics are insidiously used for monetary gain?

[cyndan]

@torr59622 The reoccurring theme of race is something that remains and will never be obliterated; unless those who are "TRULY" against it, stand up and denounce its insidiousness. Even some immigrants who are of lighter skin pigmentation, reap the benefits of societal privilege or preferential treatment. I'm not saying that progress has not been made over the years, but what I am saying is that until sepremacy on either ethnic group, gender, or sexual orientation stops, the acrimony remains.

[torr59622]

Not everyone who has assimilated into the "white" power structure owned slaves. Southern and Eastern Europeans who immigrated here 100-150years ago have no stake in our complete past and should be guilt free.