During his campaign and the ensuing election, Obama managed to escape the likes of long-time racists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. With the help of the left-leaning press (who were his biggest supporters) he even managed to escape the racial stink of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In other words, he held himself above racial issues.
Now that he is in office, however, those innate feelings which he kept hidden in the past are coming to the fore.
His comments that the cops “acted stupidly”in the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. indicates where his true feelings lay. Especially when he said he wasn’t familiar with the details of the arrest. With that comment, he was basically a black man protecting another black man from the law. In other ways, he was basically saying O.J. is not guilty.
On the other hand, Gates thought he was above the law. This grew out of the mindset that not only was he an accomplished black man and had all the protections provided by the civil rights movement, but now that a brother was in the White House, he damn sure wasn’t taking any lip from a white cop again no matter what the situation. Gates felt that, with credentials like that, no white man would ever order him around again.
After the arrest, he fully expected Sharpton, Jackson AND Obama to rush to his aid because he is a black man.
And they did.
Let’s watch closely and see what other glimmers of his innate blackness emerges from our new president.
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