Those results being the “preeminent” African-American scholar getting arrested, then running to his White friends to cry racism, thus both making Black people look A) foolish and B) absolutely dependent on Whites. Of course White “progressives” tend to encourage this sort of Uncle Tom-foolery because they all aspire to have a pet Black man to take to wine tastings, but it does a disservice to Black Americans by both infantilizing us while at the same time dehumanizing us by making it look as if we cannot be expected to live up to the same standards of behavior of White folk.

But first let’s set the scene. Henry Louis Gates, Jr was having trouble getting into to his swanky home paid for by his life long tap dancing to his progressive master’s tune. One of his enlightened east coast neighbors called a cop on him, at which point the detectives arrived to question him. That’s where the fun begins, because rather than thanking the officers for doing their job (protecting his stuff) and explaining the situation, he berated them repeatedly, calling them racists.

They then left, with the situation resolved, at which point Gates followed them out of his house to continue berating them. I would think you don’t need a PhD to know what Disorderly Conduct is, and how fast the cops in “blue states” are to slap that charge on you given the other blue staters’ delicate flower-like sensibilities. I didn’t think, before reading this, that a PhD robbed you of common sense. But apparently it does:

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in. The incident raised concerns among some Harvard faculty that Gates was a victim of racial profiling.

Police arrived at Gates’s Ware Street home near Harvard Square at 12:44 p.m. to question him. Gates, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, had trouble unlocking his door after it became jammed.

He was booked for disorderly conduct after “exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,” according to a police report. Gates accused the investigating officer of being a racist and told him he had “no idea who he was messing with,” the report said.

Gates told the officer that he was being targeted because “I’m a black man in America.”

Friends of Gates said he was already in his home when police arrived. He showed his driver’s license and Harvard identification card, but was handcuffed and taken into police custody for several hours last Thursday, they said.

The police report said Gates was arrested after he yelled at the investigating officer repeatedly inside the residence then followed the officer outside, where Gates continued to upbraid him. “It was at that time that I informed Professor Gates that he was under arrest,” the officer wrote in the report.

Gates, 58, declined to comment today when reached by phone.

I bet. The worst part is all the (predominantly White) supporters of Gates claiming it was a travesty of justice for cops to take a 58-year-old man who followed them outside his house to scream at them into custody.  Let’s get real here. Gates couldn’t get into his own home so someone he knows called the cops on him. He then, if I may use an outdated term that Gates will be familiar with, “showed his ass” to them and they let it go until he followed them outside. They kept him for a few hours then let him go. What’s that sound like to you?

Sounds like some drunk guy showed up at his house and looked like he was going to hurt himself so someone called 911. Like all drunks, he got belligerent and got thrown in the drunk tank until he sobered up. Racism? No brother, you’re just stupid.

And now he’s got all these White people claiming it’s racist for belligerent douchebags to get arrested for screaming and yelling at some cop who got called on him. No mention of his White neighbor who called the cops on him you’ll find. You know, the people who like to live next door to him because he adds “color” to the area? No, just a lot of nonsense from White folks and their house Negroes like Jesse Taylor of Pandagon, who followed up his piece about Gates with a misogynist hit piece on Star Parker at the behest of his White masters on JournoList.

But no one is willing to point out that Gates, the pinnacle of African-American academia, has run to his White Progressive friends just like a child would run to his parents to get them to protect him from his own behavior. If Gates were White and got locked up after screaming and yelling at cops no one would care. But because White Progressives are so enthralled by any Black person who can write a book (but only if that book tells them what they want to hear, right Henry?) they’ll coming running to his defense and excuse his outrageous and unseemly behavior.

After all, being Black they simply can’t expect more from him.

It reminds me of what Shelby Steele said about peope like Gates:

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