It's okay for white men to be biased, but not for minority group members to be biased.

[Lorizael]

You are a remarkably stupid and shallow man.

Sorry, the number of times you've called me a racist confirms that you're completely blinded by bias when it comes to the issue of race.

[chequita guevara]

Have you considered the fact that you are a racist? Sure, you don't think you are, but you're hardly objective on the matter.

[KrazyHorse]

Why do you say that Lori's a racist? I must have missed some DWAMA

[chequita guevara]

Lori says that I say he's a racist. I have no reason to doubt him, but I don't remember doing so. If I did, then I probably had good reason to do so. Logically, therefore, he must be a racist.

[Lorizael]

Che thinks I'm a racist because I believe there may be alternatives to affirmative action.

[chequita guevara]

That's because you're a racist.

[Lorizael]

Exactly.

[chequita guevara]

You're a moron, too.

[zakubandit]

There area alternatives to affirmative action, like say picking the best guy for the job even if he isn't a minority without the minority being able to file suit. Or maybe when a white guy gets something better than a black guy who is equal the black guy can look back and figure out why he wasn't chosen. Or maybe we can just stop using words like minority and majority when it comes to race.

[KrazyHorse]

In about 20 years we'll sure be able to.

[DinoDoc]

Given the entrenchment of the idea that it is necessary to combat racial discrimination with racial discrimination, I doubt it.

[KrazyHorse]

You missed the joke.

[Blaupanzer]

Yes, he did. An incredible thread. Multiple "known facts" that aren't true. Much storming over a settled issue.

The posters accused of calling Sessions a racist and a hypocrit are relatively innocent. The supposed "real" story from a few years ago was that Sessions quit the KKK over their marijuana use. The issue regarding his vulnerability to racism charges was settled when he withdrew from consideration for the court. Sessions really isn't shy about his views on white superiority, and he has noted that men run most important institutions to the benefit of the nation. So a minority woman proclaiming that her experience might enable her to make better decisions on many cases than a [rich] white male, had to trigger every alarm in his brain. His questions showed this. He looked pathetic and ridiculous. This was the reporting in the papers, on the radio, and on television. Sessions-defenders need to go argue with all those folks. Or check with Mr. Bush (George II) who leaned on him to withdraw.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Eastasia has always been at war with Oceania

"I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played,But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home;

Gates today

The White House says President Barack Obama was not calling a Cambridge, Mass., police officer stupid when he criticized last week’s arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. …
On Wednesday Obama said the police “acted stupidly” when they arrested Gates even after it was clear that he was not a burglary suspect. Gibbs said that Obama did not regret the remark, but wanted to clarify that he was not calling the arresting officer stupid.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Douchebag racist knows how to do it too cause he Read Your Damn Book, you magnificent bastard.

You can tell this guy was setting this up for a long time. Pretending to administer CPR to Reggie Lewis, what an asshat.

By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press Writer Denise Lavoie, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 22 mins ago
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on understanding racial profiling.

Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class about racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming.

"I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said.

Obama has said the Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates last week when they responded to his house after a woman reported a suspected break-in.

Crowley, 42, has maintained he did nothing wrong and has refused to apologize, as Gates has demanded.

Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused, flew into a rage and accused the officer of racism.

Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday.

Gates' supporters maintain his arrest was a case of racial profiling. Officers were called to the home by a woman who said she saw "two black males with backpacks" trying to break in the front door. Gates has said he arrived home from an overseas trip and the door was jammed.

Obama was asked about the arrest of Gates, who is his friend, at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night.

"I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."

In radio interviews Thursday morning, Crowley maintained he followed procedure.

"I support the president of the United States 110 percent. I think he was way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts as he himself stated before he made that comment," Crowley told WBZ-AM. "I guess a friend of mine would support my position, too."

Crowley did not immediately respond to messages left Thursday by the AP. The Cambridge police department scheduled a news conference for later Thursday.

Gates has said he was "outraged" by the arrest. He said the white officer walked into his home without his permission and only arrested him as the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment.

"This isn't about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," Gates said.

He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman."

The president said federal officials need to continue working with local law enforcement "to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias."

Fellow officers, black and white, say Crowley is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout.

Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, said he was troubled and upset over the incident. Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, who also is black, has said she spoke with Gates and apologized on behalf of the city, and a statement from the city called the July 16 incident "regrettable and unfortunate."

The mayor refused Thursday to comment on the president's remarks.

Police supporters charge that Gates, director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was responsible for his own arrest by overreacting.

Black students and professors at Harvard have complained for years about racial profiling by Cambridge and campus police. Harvard commissioned an independent committee last year to examine the university's race relations after campus police confronted a young black man who was using tools to remove a bike lock. The man worked at Harvard and owned the bike.