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Melanie Phillips: The mask slips
In which Ms. Phillips dwelleth on the delta between the presentation and the reality of the "post-racial" president...
Now, thanks to the histrionics of Henry Louis Gates, we can see how Obama's dysfunctional attitude to race plays out in real time. Gates's arrest was an honest and understandable mistake by the Cambridge police who were investigating what appeared to be a break-in. It clearly had nothing to do with Gates being black -- not least because other officers backing up the arresting officer were non-white. Gates's protests were preposterous, and vividly demonstrated the pathological resentment and injustice -- not to mention the strutting arrogance and narcissism -- of anti-racist 'victim culture'.

For the President of the United States to get involved at all in such a local matter was off-limits. For him to do so without even bothering to discover the facts was disturbing. For him to damn the Cambridge police as 'stupid' whereas it was clearly Gates who was 'stupid'(and worse), thereby demonstrating how the Presidential knee automatically jerks to the crudest of anti-white (and anti-police) tunes regardless of the facts, was deeply alarming.

Posted by: Fred 2009-07-29
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=275301