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1. I attribute your arrogant behavior was due to an arrogant attidute based on your education you felt placed you above other people. You don’t feel you are you are compelled to behave with others. I am a mexican and I disagree with the president siding with you simply because you are a friend and a member of the same minority group.

   By Joseph Razo ·  Posted on Jul 30, 07:01 PM

2. You are way off base.Nobody should be ‘above the law’ irregardless of your skin color or accomplishments.Stop using ‘race’ as excuses.Step up your game and move on.

   By Jerry Hubbard ·  Posted on Jul 31, 03:32 AM

3. You just HAVE to get over seeing EVERYTHING through the lens of racism. The lesson is not about racism, its about the stupidity of shooting your mouth off at the cops when they are doing what they are supposed to do – by the regulations. Gates, like so many other ivy leaguers, is an arrogant fool. And the President acted, well, stupidly.

   By Louis ·  Posted on Jul 31, 10:10 AM

4. White people should step there game up? Let’s see 50+ years of affirmative action, and job quotas, yes job quotas. For more years than I can count if you wanted a government contract you have better have so many minorities on the payroll or you didn’t get the contract. Also so many of the contracts HAD to go to minority businesses. Also if you were a minority and applied for college you went to the head of the line even if your grade were worse than a “white persons”. After 50+ years the “white people” have done more than enough and it time for all minorities to stand up on their own two feet.

   I find it funny that when bills are introduced to stops contracts from being awarded bases on race, etc. that it’s the minorities that protest it. Isn’t about time to stop all discrimination? Or is ok to discriminate as long as you come out on top.

   As a minority (I’m NA), I’m offended by the programs out there, basically they are all saying you poor little thing, we know you can’t make it on your own so here let us help you. And everyone in business knows it, when you show up they ask themselves, did he only get his degree because he’s a minority or did he earn it?

   Stop bitching about how unfair it is, and deal with it, you will never stop racism, some of the most racist people I’ve ever met have been minorities, so deal with it.

   You shouldn’t be saying white people should step up their game, it us, the minorities that should step up our game. Stop looking for hand out or hand up, walk up yourself, pull yourself up, and when you do run into a racist, give them your pity.

   By richard ·  Posted on Jul 31, 10:34 AM

5. Let’s look at this another way. What if this professor’s home was being broken into by two black men and the police did nothing? Would they be ‘stupid’ white men?
   And, what if the burglars were white men and the police, again, did nothing. I guess they be ‘stupid’ racist white men.
   How about this scenario: the police were investigating reports of a burglary in progress, and approached the perpetrators. One of the ‘burglars’ was so outraged he was not recognized as a highly educated member of academia by a lowly working-class policeman he blew a fuse. For some reason the words ‘pompous’, ‘arrogant’ and ‘egocentric’ come to mind when describing Mr Gates.
   Finally, the video presentation,’Yo!’ is a sad commentary on obtuseness combined with sheer ignorance. There HAS to be a village somewhere that’s missing two of its idiots.
   It’s high time people got off the whining, snivelling ‘poor-me!-I’m-black’ cop-out waggon and get a life.

   By RumbaPete ·  Posted on Aug 7, 04:50 PM