Aug 01 2009
Another Irrational Voice In America – Ann Coulter
People like Ann Coulter just do not get it. As I watched her try to defend the Boston Officer, Justin Barrett, for his comments comparing Louis Gates to a “banana eating jungle-monkey” I could only shake my head at her ignorance. Justin Barrett will, hopefully, get just what is coming to him, “fired” from his job.
For me Ann Coulter is a disturbing view of just what is wrong in America where race relations are concerned. Even if the arrest of Louis Gates was not an extreme case of racial profiling, it nonetheless held racial overtones with both participates demonstrating their share of internal racial conflict, dominated by ego.
Ann Coulter denies the fact that racial profiling exists in her golden world of denial she demonstrates her stupidity along with that of all of those in white America who deny race issues still exist and exist to extreme in America. This is why I know that race relations will never be healed – too many live in denial.
As I watched her defend this Officer and compare his racist words and name calling with the incident that took place inside Gates home (I thought she was comparing Barretts words to Obama’s comment but Rev. Sharpton took it another way so we will go with that), I found myself feeling so sorry for her and her irrational thought process and the arrogance she displays with her justifications.
Sgt. Crowley started his police report based on a lie that he was told two blacks were attempting to break into a house – this lie came to light with the release of the 911 tape. For me this speaks loudly of the internal mechanisms that dictate reaction to a given situation.
The America public, enraged by what transpired with the arrest of Louis Gates, have pointed their hate filled fingers at the 911 caller as well as Leon Lashley, the black cop who stood behind his “brother in blue,” when the bottom line is that this incident was solely the madness of the arresting officer, Office Crowley, Louis Gates and the perceptions the two of them brought to this confrontation.
Both Louis Gates and Officer Crowley being guilty, to some degree, of bringing preconceived attitudes to the situation, both showing a level of immaturity and ego that took this situation to an unreal climax with neither one of them having enough sense to back down.
Ann Coulter demonstrates her ability to be irrational in the face of realities in America and it will be, as a result of the thought process of people like her, that race relations in this country will stagnate and forever remain a constant thorn in the side of America justice in this country. She needs to crawl from beneath the rock she lives under and view the world she lives in from a clearer perspective than that bleached blond hair she sports.
On her web site Coulter asks that liberals produce one provable example of racial profiling that isn’t a hoax. Well I have one for you Blondie.
“Earlier this year, officials in the tiny east Texas town of Tenaha were accused in a federal lawsuit of stopping minorities, mostly African Americans but some Latinos as well, driving through town and seizing their money and property by threatening them with criminal prosecution and threatening, in some cases, to remove their children from their possession” - Do some research for yourself and you will find many examples of racial profiling.
These stops did not involve any wrong doing by the individuals who where stopped – just another way in which some law enforcement officers abuse their power and while you may deny these charges because until proven guilty they are just charges, some officials in the area acknowledge the fact that this has become a problem in their area and are working to “fix” the problem.
You are a sick person Ann Coulter without a basic knowledge of what goes on, in the world you live in and how things like racial profiling have a profound effect on those being profiled, to come out talking as though you are an expert on the subject just goes to show how gullible Americans can be in believing in the words that fall out of your mouth and the mouths of people like you.
And that’s the way I see it!!!!
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listen to the 911 call. the officer asks are they “white black or Hispanic?” Ms Whalen (the caller) says one looks “Hispanic. but I couldn’t see the other one, he already entered the house.I’m not defending Justin Barret, who has also been suspended from the BPD.
I have read a few articles of yours and it seems to me that you have a race issue. Nobody is in denail about race in America. We are forced to deal with it everyday by individuals like you, the President and race-baiters like the two so-called Revs (Al and Jesse).
No doubt about it, racial profiling is alive and well in America. Not just in the white world, as you claim above. You only see what you want your eyes to see. Blaming a group of people and making crazy statements shows us your mindset.
Now, Im no fan of Ann Coulter, but you attack her and her looks. What does that have to do with your argument? Didn’t Don Imus get fired for talking about the hair of the women on the basketball team. In your eyes its alright to go after her…because she is white no doubt.
You use a few case studies to make a claim that everyone already knows…profiling does exist. No, go to www.fbi.gov and look at the stats on who kills/wounds law enforcement officers and report back to us. Look at the stats on who kills blacks at a rate of 85 %.
Instead of whining about the white world, get your own world in check and then complain. Stop using victimology to make your claims. Not all white people use racial profiling like you did in this very article.
@changenhope
Call me racist if you want but I call things the way I see them. The reason I made the comment on Ms. Coulter’s hair is because I saw her on Rick Sanchez discussing the fact that the choice for Surgeon General was too fat to be nominated - she felt free to go petty so I followed in her footsteps.
If I was talking about crime in America, the site you referred me to may have been relevant but this was not the discussion and for you to attempt to turn the tables on the conversation at hand shows who you are - I have written a post or two about how black communities need to clean up their backyards.
In terms of whinning it seems as though you are more the whinner as you project your racist views on me for speaking my mind and my experiences and attempting to turn this into something it was not.
For me Race-baiters are those whites who would want to argue with me, being black sharing my black experiences and the way things have been and still are, telling me I am racist while attempting to minimize my experiences with this characterization of racist - Check yourself cuz it sounds like you fit that description.
Labeling me does not erase the facts - I am not a racist just because my words may have stung you it is more because they were true and you just did not like the tone.
Gates should have just cooperated, not gotten beligerent, and completely ignored the race issue. It annoys me that people still try to play the “race card”. People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Obama just make racism worse. Ann Coulter wants America to move beyond the whole race concept, but Sharpton and Jackson just keep whining about blacks being victims, thus making sure the racism continues.
This article shows just how irrational liberals really are. I’m a conservative because I’m rational.
NotObama - you need to face some realities. The race issue is kept alive by people like Ann Coulter and you (read my recent post). If you people did not make your racist remarks, people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would not have a basis for their reactions or comments.
The race issue stays alive because it is alive and well and living in the USA. If anybody is irrational it is you and your view on racial issues. Take your sheet off and maybe you can see clearly.