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Originally Posted by timalkin
Why don't you try that one sometime and let us know how it turns out for you?
I'm appalled that some people are taking up for this racist piece of shit professor. This asshole has a huge chip on his shoulder and probably walks around all day giving the stink eye to every white person he sees. I can't believe he's able to taint the next generation with his hatred, but fuck it, academia has always been a breeding ground for rebels without a cause.
Motherfuckers like this one are the biggest reason why we can't bury the race hatchet and move into the 21st Century. Too many people have too much to gain by seeing racism in the smallest things. If whites are ever a minority in the United States, I want to be the white Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson equivalent.
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Or maybe the reason we can't bury the race hatchet is because there are people, just like in this discussion, that whenever there is a conflict between a black man and a white man, immediately assume the black man is at fault, filling in the blanks with whatever suits them.
Now, Im not saying that Gates wasn't an asshole. But here's your account of what happened:
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After the identification was given, the good professor decided to talk shit to the police while he was outside of his house, presumably calling the police officers racists and generally creating a nuisance. News flash: You talk shit to the police at your own risk. You don't have a constitutional right to say whatever the fuck you're thinking to the police, or anybody else for that matter. Don't like it? Tough shit.
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Which is unsubstantiated by anything, including the police report. So you've made up this scenario entirely from your head. The police report itself said that the professor was "talking shit" to the police while he was inside his home, and the police officer asked him out to the porch. Also, yeah, you do have a right to say whatever you want to the police as long as it is not physically threatening or any of the usual limits on free speech we recognize. Threatening unspecified administrative action, even if in an obnoxious manner, is entirely within one's rights.
And you want to talk about "double standards..."
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Originally Posted by Shauk
The professor was in the wrong, end of story. I've had the same shit happen to me, I've had the cops called on me for getting water from the backyard faucet of the house we were moving out of because the landlord died and the house was willed to family, and they wanted to sell it.
It was right around midnight and we still had a "right" to be there until the end of the month. But all of our stuff was packed up in the car and we weren't ready to leave until dark because it was in TX, and it was hot, so we thought we'd do night travel instead.
Basically the cops were dicks, we cooperated to the best of our ability but they still treated us like scum.
and hey, guess what, i'm white! *shrug*
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After they determined you had a right to be there, did they ask or want to check if there were other people there? Did they call for additional police even after you showed you had a right to be there? Did they hang out in the kitchen?