by Timothy Birdnow

Unequal treatment is the hallmark of liberal media.

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested for disorderly conduct at the home he had just broken into in Cambridge, Massachusetts (his own, it turns out), America was treated to a media blitzkrieg about the mistreatment of a black Harvard professor by white, presumably racist, police. Gates was arrested not for the break-in but for disorderly conduct, as he refused to cooperate with police and was screaming at them, calling them racists and generally disturbing the peace. He did not produce a legal I.D. at the time, either, but showed the cops a Harvard faculty card that did not show the professor`s address.

Much like President Obama`s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, Gates seems to believe he should never let a good crisis go to waste (interestingly enough, the very same president is a good friend of the black grievence-peddler) and Gates mounted a national campaign to smear the policemen in question and police in general as racist. He mounted a media blitz that led to President Obama`s planted question at his health care press conference in which, after admitting he didn`t have all the facts, he excoriated the Cambridge police as “acting stupid”.

Fortunately, the facts are coming out-including the 911 calls, eyewitness accounts, and the good professor is increasingly appearing to be the racist here, clearly grinding his axe.

What does one expect when breaking into the house of a well-to-do professor, even if the property he was breaking into happened to be his own? Mr. Gates should have been thankful that people were looking out for his own interests. It seems resentment plays a larger role in the lives of the race baiters than does gratitude.

The great black integrationist Booker T. Washington made the following comment:

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs.”

To further illustrate his point, he said;

“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

Now Washington was diagnosing this malady around 1911, and it is most applicable to men like Henry Louis Gates Jr. Clearly Gates has a chip on his shoulder. When ordered by police to step out of his house (remember, they thought he was a common burglar) he replied;

“Why, because I`m a black man in America?”

Gates repeatedly called the officers racist, and made numerous threats of political retaliation. After much screaming outside Officer Crowley arrested the the Great Man.

After his arrest, Henry Louis Gates Jr. began a campaign. The narrative, immediately picked up by the mainstream media, was that black men just can`t get a fair shake in America.

The dissimilarity between another arrest-particularly on the part of the media-is astonishing; when actor Mel Gibson was arrested for drunk driving, the alcoholic but conservative Gibson launched into a diatribe against the arresting officers, insulting one of the men for being Jewish and insulting Jews in general. Everyone should remember his infamous claim that “all the world`s problems are caused by Jews”. Now, Gibson`s first response on sobering was to apologize to the officers in question, apologize to Jews in general, and apologizing to the world. Gibson admitted fault and took his medicine, refering to his tirade as “despicable”. Gibson, it must be repeated, was drunk. Henry Louis Gates Jr. presumably was not.

Yet the media crucified (pun intended) the actor and exalted the professor. In both instances ethnic stereotypes were hurled as invectives from the offenders, but Gates was given a pass because he is a member of a “protected” group and Gibson was not. Gates never apologized - something that liberals are always demanding, yet Gibson made that his top priority, since he knew full well he was seriously out of line. Why the double standard?

Because, as the old saying about Soviet egalitarianism said, some are more equal than others, and a member of an “oppressed” class is given a pass, nay, given honor for bad behavior, since the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves. America is guilty, guilty, guilty, and any bad behavior from any protected group is our fault, not theirs. Gibson was guilty because he was white and Christian; few would cut him much slack. The Duke Lacrosse team was guilty because they were white, even though there was zero evidence in the case and the black accuser`s story was terribly inconsistent. A black professor is innocent because he is a black man - and someone from an historically mistreated group is simply held to a different standard.

I thought Barack Obama brought a new day to race relations in America! We were told this was the post-racial era, yet the race baiting continues - and this by a good friend of our post-racial president, who waded into this controversy from a position of total ignorance, yet condemns the police anyway. Interestingly, Obama is the chief law enforcement officer of the land, yet he sides with race when it all comes down.

Here are a couple of other quotes from Booker T. Washington, ones that Professor Gates should memorize:

“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.”

and

“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

Gates - and his friends in the media -  seems to carry a large chip on his shoulder; who is doing the degrading in the final analysis?

The police report can be accessed at The Smoking Gun

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html

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