anti-racism or racism itself IS racist. only when someone is allowed to
speak his mind freely and describe a negro as a negro or a caucasion as
white or a whatever as whatever he obviously is will racism be
extuinguished. quit being so fricking sensitive.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:42 PM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote:

> Those of us who are trying not to be racist.  We fail because the goal
> posts keep moving and yet we find that the racist blacks are not racists
> after all because they are black.  If one is racist, so is the other and for
> our president to prey on the people of pallor as being racist, which he has
> been doing since childhood even with his grandmother, is totally beyond the
> pale, both color and point.
>
> Mark wrote:
>
>   Dick... Who really (actually I pity the ignorant fools that do) cares??
> It is the height of stupidity to allow someones spoken inbred hatred bother
> you. It simply sustains the ciurcle of violence.
>
> Wasn't your proud nation originally settled by those that were "different"
> and outcast ?? That you should perpetuate that cycle is in itself sad, that
> anyone excepts it as harmfull does the same. The religious fanatism present
> then is still there now. as late as the 60's it was an absolute that
> interfaith marriages would produce retarded children. You are industrially
> great while remaining infantile in general acceptance of basic differences.
>
>   On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, dick thompson 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>   Considering that Gates made a racial slur and Jesse and Al are forever
>> making racial slurs, why should this one bother anyone at all.  What makes
>> you believe that only whites can make racial slurs.  Ever heard the term
>> Honky or Cracker?  What do you think those are if not racial slurs.
>>
>> THE ANNOINTED ONE wrote:
>>
>> I didn't justify ANYTHING. I stated absolute fact.
>>
>> The fact that a "racial slur" is given credence by "you people" is
>> what is wrong. What possible difference does what you think of my
>> ancestry have to do with the price of potatoes or my self-esteem ??
>>
>> I really would like an answer to that.
>>
>> On Jul 30, 10:13 am, VT VirtualTruth <[email protected]> 
>> <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> You have no idea how blindly ignorant and bigoted you just sounded
>> trying
>> to justify an obviously racial slur.
>>
>> On Jul 30, 11:50 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE <[email protected]> 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> VT,
>>
>>
>> "......like a banana eating jungle monkey..."
>>
>>
>> Does not even imply that Gates IS one... only that on that day at that
>> time he acted like one.
>>
>>
>> Living in rural CR and having more than a few banana trees I do know
>> what a "banana eating jungle monkey" acts like. Normally Howlers are
>> very serene beasts that simply lie around in the trees most of the
>> day, they do LOVE bananas. Have you ever tried to climb a banana
>> tree ?? Obviously not. They bend and bow and do all sorts of things
>> that "normal" trees containing the other fruits that monkeys love do
>> not. It requires that enough of the family unit climbs the tree to get
>> it to break or bow enough to get the ristra to the ground. There is a
>> lot of gentle fighting for position, frustrated screaming and and
>> constant scratching (there is a kind of black ant that lives in these
>> trees and they bite really hard). The whole ordeal is very disturbing
>> to the normal tranquility of the area and out of character for 99.9%
>> of the normal status of the monkeys. The whiteface monkeys are even
>> worse as they weigh far less requiring even more of them in the tree.
>>
>>
>> To have said this about Gates is in reality (whether or not the author
>> knew it) a really good description of non-normal behavior that can be
>> found in us all at one point or another.
>>
>>
>> You are welcome to come to my home, sit on the terrace with a nice
>> Hefeweizen and see for yourself......
>>
>>
>> On Jul 29, 11:55 pm, VT VirtualTruth <[email protected]> 
>> <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  The actual 
>> email...http://opendebateforum2.blogspot.com/2009/07/full-email-sent-by-justi...
>>
>>
>>  On Jul 30, 1:46 am, VT Sean Lewis <[email protected]> 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Boston cop calls Gates 'banana-eating jungle monkey' in mass e-mail
>>
>>
>>  UPDATE II
>>
>>
>>  The Fox affiliate in Boston has published the text of the email Boston
>> police officer Justin Barrett sent in which he referred to Harvard
>> professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a "banana-eating jungle monkey."
>>
>>
>>  It now appears Barrett's email was a letter to the editor of the
>> Boston Globe, complaining of the Globe's coverage of the Gates arrest
>> on July 16.
>>
>>
>>  Of Gates, Barrett wrote: "He is a suspect and will always be a
>>
>>
>>  suspect."
>>
>>
>>  "If I was the officer [Gates] verbally assaulted like a banana-eating
>> jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [pepper
>> spray] deserving of his belligerent non-compliance."
>>
>>
>>  Barrett then went on to berate the author of the Globe article to
>> which he objected.
>>
>>
>>  "You are a hot little bird with minimal experiences in a harsh field,"
>> Barrett wrote. "You are a fool. An infidel. You have no business
>> writing for a US newspaper nevermind detailing and analyzing half-
>> truths."
>>
>>
>>  AP reported that "Barrett was trained in racial profiling prevention
>> and had shown no signs of racial discrimination in the past."
>>
>>
>>  Barrett's tirade has spawned an instant flurry of comments on blogs
>> and talk shows.
>>
>>
>>  "If this is what [police officers are] putting in emails, imagine what
>> they're saying in private," blogged The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan.
>>
>>
>>  UPDATE
>>
>>
>>  The police officer who called Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates,
>> Jr., a "jungle monkey" is a "cancer on the department," Boston Mayor
>> Tom Menino said Wednesday.
>>
>>
>>  A blog posting by Cindy Adams at Examiner.com also says Menino called
>> for the officer to be fired immediately.
>>
>>
>>  The Boston Globe reports that Barrett will be represented by the
>> Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, the local police union. The
>> union is expected to make a statement on the case Wednesday evening.
>>
>>
>>  ORIGINAL STORY CONTINUES
>>
>>
>>  A Boston police officer has been suspended and likely will be fired
>> after sending an anonymous email that referred to Harvard professor
>> Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "jungle monkey."
>>
>>
>>  According to the Boston Herald, 36-year-old Officer Justin Barrett was
>> placed "on administrative leave pending a termination hearing
>> yesterday afternoon. When a supervisor confronted Barrett about the e-
>> mail - in which he called Gates a 'jungle monkey' - he admitted to
>> being the author."
>>
>>
>>  ABC affiliate WCVB reports that Barrett sent the email to colleagues
>> at the National Guard -- he is also a reserve soldier in the Guard --
>> and to the Boston Globe. Police traced the email back to Barrett on
>> Tuesday.
>>
>>
>>  Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis "immediately stripped the cop
>> of his gun and badge," the Herald reported Wednesday.
>>
>>
>>  Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was arrested on the front porch of his own
>> home on a public disturbance charge July 16 in an incident where a
>> police officer suspected the Harvard scholar of being a burglar after
>> Gates jimmied his way in. Gates says he was a victim of racial
>> profiling. Charges against him were quickly dropped.
>>
>>
>>  The incident became an even larger controversy when President Barack
>> Obama said last week that the Cambridge police had "acted stupidly" in
>> arresting Gates. And most recently, the neighbor of Gates whose 911
>> call started the incident said she never mentioned that the two
>> persons on Gates's porch were black, and didn't talk to the arresting
>> officer, Sgt. James Crowley, at the scene.
>>
>>
>>  Both of those claims contradict Sgt. Crowley's police report on the
>> incident.
>>
>>
>>  
>> http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/boston-cop-calls-gates-jungle-monkey...quoted
>>  text -
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>>
>> --
>> Mark M. Kahle,  ,
>> www.filacoffee.com
>>
>>
>>
> >
>


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www.filacoffee.com

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