Yonivore
04-18-2012, 05:10 PM
...a lift kit on that bus.
Van Jones on Trayvon Martin, Racial Violence and Why Obama Ignored Race Issues for Two Years (http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/3/van_jones_on_trayvon_martin_racial)
I think the entire video is revealing about the kind of people with whom Obama chooses to surround himself but, I particularly love the part about the Beer Summit.
The right wing and the law enforcement establishment brought the wrath of God down on the White House, I was there, and suddenly he's forced to do a beer summit to sit eye to eye with a racist police officer... as a black man, even the most powerful man in the world, can not speak about race and if he does he's then forced to sit humbly across the table from a racist police officer.
Does the President agree officer Crowley is a racist? Is he really such a weakling he could be forced into something like the Beer Summit by the GOP and law enforcement?
What a punk racist.
Incidentally, I hear Officer Crowley and Professor Gates have buried the ax and, while they may not be friends, there's no lingering animosity.
Here's something I didn't know (or didn't recall) about that racist officer Crowley...
Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis (http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090722cop_who_arrested_henry_gates_im_not_apolog izing)
The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday.
“I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,” Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer.
It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete.
What stands out to me is that he was criticized for not doing enough to save Lewis. Fuck! CPR and Mouth-to-Mouth resuscitation isn't for people who hate the race they're trying to revive. It's a pretty intimate activity.
Van Jones on Trayvon Martin, Racial Violence and Why Obama Ignored Race Issues for Two Years (http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/3/van_jones_on_trayvon_martin_racial)
I think the entire video is revealing about the kind of people with whom Obama chooses to surround himself but, I particularly love the part about the Beer Summit.
The right wing and the law enforcement establishment brought the wrath of God down on the White House, I was there, and suddenly he's forced to do a beer summit to sit eye to eye with a racist police officer... as a black man, even the most powerful man in the world, can not speak about race and if he does he's then forced to sit humbly across the table from a racist police officer.
Does the President agree officer Crowley is a racist? Is he really such a weakling he could be forced into something like the Beer Summit by the GOP and law enforcement?
What a punk racist.
Incidentally, I hear Officer Crowley and Professor Gates have buried the ax and, while they may not be friends, there's no lingering animosity.
Here's something I didn't know (or didn't recall) about that racist officer Crowley...
Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis (http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090722cop_who_arrested_henry_gates_im_not_apolog izing)
The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics [team stats] superstar’s life 16 years ago Monday.
“I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being,” Sgt. James Crowley, in an exclusive interview with the Herald, said of the forward’s fatal heart attack July 27, 1993, at age 27 during an off-season practice at Brandeis University, where Crowley was a campus police officer.
It’s a date Crowley still can recite by rote - and he still recalls the pain he suffered when people back then questioned whether he had done enough to save the black athlete.
What stands out to me is that he was criticized for not doing enough to save Lewis. Fuck! CPR and Mouth-to-Mouth resuscitation isn't for people who hate the race they're trying to revive. It's a pretty intimate activity.