You and I don’t know what really transpired. I’ve seen arrogant cops. I’ve seen good cops. I’ve seen people react poorly when getting confronted by a cop. I’ve seen people cooperate when confronted by a cop. White. Black. Whatever.

You’re acting as if there’s this secret cabal of white people – or perhaps more specifically, white men – to do things like steal and profit from your work and worse.

You’re wrong to think that this was an organized attempt to humiliate Prof. Gates. The cops had no idea who he was. They don’t follow famous professors from Harvard. They do police work. One of those things they do is respond to calls from citizens. And this call was an illegitimate one based upon a citizen’s racist viewpoint that two black males pushing open a front door of a house must mean a break in.

Then the cop, seeing Prof. Gates being agitated, stupidly decided to not cooperate back. That made Gates more agitated. But some cops do that all the time.

The problem is that the phone call shouldn’t have been made in the first place.

Now, with regard to your comment that “Most white men are in denial about their crimes against humanity all across the globe”…

Sorry, but that’s lunacy. I’m a white guy and I bear no responsibility to what imperialistic Britain and France did, nor the Nazis, nor the any of that. Sorry, I didn’t do any of that.

Right now, the worst human rights violations have been occuring in Africa. In Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Congo have all witnessed massive slaughters. And they ain’t white run countries.

And many of the victims through history have been white. Jews and practically everyone else in Europe because of the Nazis in WWII. The Irish for centuries by the English.

If you’re going to be understandably and justifiably upset about the treatment Prof. Gates – based on racism, then please afford us white folks the same courtesy of not racial profiling.

Recently, I personally have experienced extreme racism in Arizona when authorities continue to allow a buisness identity thief and copyright infringer to get away with peddling a counterfeit of one of my copyrighted sports photo-posters as white men earn millions from the sale and distribution of my creative work. I have been repeatedly to law authorities on every level for help and have been denied equal protection under the law by the FBI, Arizona Attorney General, The United States District Attorney in Phoenix and local, county, and state agencies and have been to the media as well.

There is a double-standard in America that controls the way Justice is dispensed and who gets adequate legal representation. What baffles me the most, is that these things happen over and over and when questioned about their police abuse of power, they get amnesia, concoct lies, distort the facts, and look for scapegoats.

Most white men are in denial about their crimes against humanity all across the globe, since the conquistadors set sail from Europe. We cannot continue to put up with this insanity like we have in the past. Either we live or we die in defense of our rights as American citizens or continue to get shafted, as we contribute to make this country live up to the true meaning of its Constitution.

The United States are divided and will never be a true democracy unless White America truly repents and turns around from their evil and systematic racial double-standard behaviors. Furthermore, their denial of their racism borders on insanity and is a direct result of why this country is falling down into the abyss at a rapid pace. When they “man-up” to their ignorance and stupidity, maybe things will start to change, but until then, expect more of the same.

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