I don't want to sound racist because I am not, I try to take people for what they are and how they treat others. I have long said the race problems in American are mostly generated by those that cry racist most. This was evidenced when Yamama made the coments about Crowley and his department.
If this is not true them why did he cry racist when Gates was arrested (tho he deserved it) and not even mention the fallen officer trying to protect the rights of a minority group?
July 28, 2009
Barack's 'Teachable Moment'
By Jeannie DeAngelis
The night before the President of the United States addressed the
questionable behavior of American law enforcement, physicians at Jersey City
Medical Center harvested Detective Marc Anthony DiNardo's organs for
donation in preparation to take him off of life support. Two days later, a
hearse carrying DiNardo's body slowly made its way down a Jersey City street
past a blue sea of stoic police officers lining the winding route. While
inconsolable family members bid DiNardo farewell in New Jersey, at a
Washington DC press conference Barack Obama reminded Americans of law
enforcement's history of racial injustice by impugning the procedural
decision of Cambridge, Massachusetts police Sergeant James Crowley "acting
stupidly."
Approximately one week prior to Obama's statements, Detective DiNardo was
gravely wounded during a stake out of Hassian Hosendove aka Hassan Shakur
and his cohort, wife Amanda Anderson. DiNardo's reputation was one of
fearless dedication; participating in a SWAT sting the officer descended on
the fugitives in an attempt to capture a pair of common thugs responsible
for violent carnage in more than two states.
While Obama was busy race baiting, DiNardo was laid out in dress blues
having expired from the gunshot wounds to the face received while protecting
the minority community of Jersey City from the blight of the likes of Hassan
Shakur. Obama's comments deriding the integrity of police officers
compounded DiNardo's already fatal wounds. The President's bitterness and
bigotry were revealed by his choice to use a trivial incident, involving an
inconsequential man like Henry Louis Gates Jr., as a springboard to attack
the stature of American law enforcement during the funeral of one of their
finest.
Narcissistic tactlessness on the part of Obama suggested Sergeant James
Crowley, responding to a complaint that a home burglary was in progress,
behaved with racial bias. The President opined as bereaved pallbearers
ferried DiNardo's flag draped coffin above the throngs of mourners in Jersey
City, morbidly shooting the President ahead of the funeral cortège in the
news cycle.
In his national address Obama expressed the need for further communication
while failing to commend a detective who faced down an armed suspect
wielding a pump-action shotgun. "Instead of flinging accusations" and
resurrecting racial hostilities, Obama should have used the passing of
DiNardo as an opportunity to "pump up the volume" regarding violent crime in
America by acknowledging the unnecessary dirge filling Jersey City's summer
air.
As bagpipes played Amazing Grace, many of those in attendance at DiNardo's
funeral likely bristled at the President's incendiary political remarks as
their colleague was laid to rest. The week of DiNardo's funeral could have
been an occasion for the President to bring America together. Instead,
Obama chose to squander an opportunity to laud, or even mention, fine police
officers like DiNardo who overwhelmingly reject the vile practice of racial
profiling.
If the funeral of Detective DiNardo accomplished anything, it highlighted
the banal, misappropriated, comments of a President obsessed with race.
During his press conference, Barack Obama not only maligned the white-gloved
officers saluting Detective DiNardo, but also the Secret Service personnel
who pledge to take a bullet in Obama's stead. In the form of a tongue in
cheek joke, Obama stunned America when he revealed that as a black man he
worries about being shot entering the White House if ever he is missing his
keys.
Obama ‘s "teachable moment" coincided with soil being shoveled over the
coffin of a courageous, unprejudiced police officer. Though too late for
Detective DiNardo, Obama's inconsiderate remarks implied those in military
formation along the streets of Jersey City should take the occasion to
accept culpability for bullet wounds from shotguns and character wounds by
cantankerous Harvard professors. As law enforcement officials scraped dried
graveyard mud from spit-shined shoes, Obama concurrently brought to light
the need for them to pause, set aside their grief, and align themselves with
a racially astute President.
Obama promised America he'd transcend race. Instead, his remarks exploit
race. When Barack Obama speaks he illuminates and reiterates the opinion
that to serve the urban community, administer CPR to fallen basketball
stars, teach racial sensitivity classes or rescue distraught minorities from
the Hackensack River does not compensate for historical wrongs our country
or its police officers are guilty of in their treatment of minorities. When
presented with the chance Obama ignored the death of DiNardo. He chose to
take no notice of the deceased detective's audacious commitment to a city
demographic comprised of the very cross section of people Obama accuses
police officers of discriminating against.
Choosing to ignore the heroism and courage of the majority of upstanding law
enforcement officials, Obama persists in availing himself every opportunity
to garner political benefit by presenting an unending list of "teachable
moments" to a largely racially tolerant nation. The untimely death of
Detective DiNardo -- juxtaposed against Obama's comments -- provides to us
all, regardless of race, a teachable moment. Contrary to the President's
original intent, Obama's lesson sheds more light on his own racial biases
than on any of our own.
