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Here’s Racism

Justin Barrett, a two-year police officer and national guard captain, has been suspended by both the Boston Police Department and by the Massachusetts National Guard for his e-mailed letter to a Boston Globe columnist. Barrett wrote:

“Gates is a goddamned fool, and you the article writer simply a poor follower and maybe worse, a poor writer. Your article title should read ‘CONDUCT UNBECOMING A JUNGLE MONKEY-BACK TO ONE’S ROOTS’.”

As you’ll see in the screenshot of his typed letter, he used the term “jungle monkey” more than once, including referring to Professor Gates’ behavior as that of a “banana-eating jungle monkey”:

CLICK HERE, or on the screenshot, to see it full-size and in a readable form:

justin-barrett-email-s

The Boston Globe reports:

Barrett, a 36-year-old who has been on the job for two years, was stripped of his gun and badge yesterday and faces a termination hearing in the next week, said police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll. He has no previous disciplinary record, she said. “Yesterday afternoon, Commissioner Davis was made aware that Officer Barrett was the author of correspondence which included racially charged language,” she said. “At that time, Commissioner Davis immediately stripped Officer Barrett of his gun and badge, and at this time we will be moving forward with the hearing process.”

[...][Mayor Thomas M.] Menino said he was angry when Davis informed him of the incident Tuesday night. Of the suspended officer, Menino said he told Davis: “He has no place in this department and we have to take his badge away. That stuff doesn’t belong in our city and we’re not going to tolerate it.” The mayor stressed that the incident was about one officer, and ”one officer doesn’t make up a police department.”

Menino, speaking to the Globe before an evening event in the South End, said he hadn’t seen the e-mail Menino said while the officer is not officially terminated, he might as well be “He’s gone, g-o-n-e. I don’t care, it’s like cancer, you don’t keep those cancers around.”

Along with his suspension, Barrett was also reprimanded by the Massachusetts National Guard:

The Massachusetts National Guard does not and will not tolerate racially insensitive language.

The language contained in the e-mail violates policies of the Massachusetts National Guard and what it stands for in its commitment to uphold and protect the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Constitution of the United States.

Capt. Justin Barrett’s actions and opinions are his own and do not reflect those of the Massachusetts National Guard. Capt. Barrett’s opinions are in complete violation of Army and National Guard Values and will not be tolerated.

Barrett is not just a racist. He’s plain stupid.

Even the most hardcore racists would know better than to write an e-mail to a newspaper using that kind of language.

He’s offering excuses, including a claim that he didn’t intend to be racist, and he has apologized. But his words ring hollow, and he ought to know it.

  • Craig Della Penna

    I’m starting a pool to see how long it takes before these racist comments are attributed to Sgt. Crowley.

    I say three days, max.

  • Tricia Spiegel

    This man has a serious problem beyond being a racist. I guess “stupid” seems correct, but it goes deeper than that. His IQ is probably respectable, but his decision-making is way off base–for his own sake.

    As disgusting as his expressions are (did you pick up theuse of “ax” even?) I still find it as upsetting that when women are described using language just as derrogatory (or worse), it is not seen as much of a big deal.

  • oowawa

    Yep, “banana-eating jungle monkey” does manage to tip the racism meter into the red zone. And actually, he isn’t even getting the racist epithet quite right, since “jungle bunny” and not “jungle monkey” is the time-honored correct term in the racist lexicon. There’s nothing more ignorant than a racist who doesn’t even know his own stupid traditions.

  • ConfusedAmerican

    There are already forums saying “see I told you so, all cops are racist”

    It just takes one bad apple.

    Gates unwarranted use of the race card, especially with Obama’s input made it look bad for legit racism cases. One bad apple.

    Justin Barrett now makes all police officers look bad, even though it looks like he is barely past probation (2 years???) One bad apple

  • Obama: Dubya’ 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Of course, here’s racial hypocracy again. When a black guy makes racist statements to a cop suddenly it’s all about the cop acting stupid and the racists get to have a beer with the president for a “teaching moment”.

    A white guy vents frustration with “banana eating jungle monkeys” and they’re ready to throw a hate crimes charge against the guy, strip him of his livelyhood, etc. Nobody can rush fast enough to the mike and blog post to condemn this guy.

    So where’s the “teachable moment”?

  • Docelder

    Notice the bit where he said he would have pepper sprayed the professor in his own home for not displaying the proper deference to him. This is more an insight into abuse of authority than anything. This is beyond stupid, this is more like evil.

  • WMCB

    Now THIS guy is a racist pig. No doubt about it. Because, see, it doesn’t matter how frustrated you are, or that you have had genuine bad experiences with individuals of another race, if your response to that is generalized racial hatred and bitterness, then YOU are a racist.

  • oowawa

    Problem is, this guy carries a gun in an official capacity, and he has demonstrated extreme lack of judgment and self-control. He lets himself “fly off the handle.” We can’t ignore that.

  • NomNomNom

    This (“His first priority of effort should be to get off the phone and comply with the police, for if I was the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin caseinate aka pepper gas] deserving of his belligerent non-compliance.”…) only made the papers because of Gates-gate.
    If the racist emails had been in response to some dust up that didn’t make the news, I doubt very much that we’d have ever heard about it and I doubt Barrett would have received any punishment at all.

    And let’s not forget the other part of Barrett’s racist sexist diatribe, the part directed at columnist Yvonne Abraham in this pos’ letter to her:
    “That paragraph was a s pathetic as jungle monkey gibberish — I might as well ax you the question, Is this your first test at reporting?” …

    “You are a hot little bird with minimal experience in a harsh field. You are a fool. An infidel. You have no business writing for a US newspaper nevermind [sic] detailing and analyzing half truths. You should serve me coffee and donuts on Sunday morning.”

    “You mention gates’ charges were dropped but that it was too late to stop the damage? Damage? Still kidding? You need to serve a day with the infantry and get swarmed by black gnats while manning your sector. Or you just need to get slapped, look in the mirror and admit, “Wow, I am a failure. I am a follower. Who am I kidding?”

    Again I like a warm cruller and hot Panamanian, black. No sugar.

    Your final statement reads, Gates, whose great success has allowed him to transcend the racial divide” to which I ask, when did he transcend?

    He indeed has transcended back to a bumbling jungle monkey, thus he forever tremains [sic] amid this nation’s great social/racial divide that makes it a free and great nation mixed with crazy awkward differences.

    Go ahead, ax me what I think? Gates is a goddamned fool and you the article writer simply a poor follower and maybe worse, a poor writer.

    Your article title should read CONDUCT UNBECOMING A JUNGLE MONKEY –BACK TO ONE’S ROOTS. JB
    http://askari-ali.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/30/3095952-boston-cop-suspended-over-racist

    “I regret that I used such words,” Officer Justin Barrett told WCVB TV in Boston. “I have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name. I am not a racist.”

    Srsly. He’s not a racist.
    :roll:

  • NomNomNom

    admin: post in Spaminator, plz rescue, thx!

  • http://! stodgie

    i am just wondering in a respectful manner what is the point of this diary? tit for tat? to divert attention from the racism from the wh? probably not! but i did wonder about that. we all know racism is still out there fanned by the manipulations of obama during the campaign and now. i think personally it is important to hold up to account those on both sides for racism. frankly i am tired of the usual folks being branded the racists while the other side practices it in such a self righteous manner. if that continues any success made will end and we will traveling backward back down the road

  • basil

    How do weknow that post wasn’t a ‘plant?’

  • WMCB

    Gates was not a teachable moment. This guy is. He OUGHT to lose his badge and his gun. Immediately. You don’t put guys with that much hate in them on your police force, period.

    If he wants to go be as racist as he pleases in private life, go right ahead. It’s a free country, and I defend anyone’s right to be as hateful-as-you-wanna-be as a private citizen. But no, we shouldn’t be paying public salaries to people who have that sort of attitude toward a particular race, especially when by his own admission those attitudes are embedded in how he plans to do his job.

  • stand up and fight

    How come we never hear about the racism of black cops on white paeople?Oh i forgot black cops are not racist.Who do you think is in more danger a white guy walking in a black area at 2 in the morning or a black guy walking in a white area at 2 in the morning?Take a poll.Watch the results.

  • Paco

    Wow. he “carries a gun in an official capacity” and chose to “fly off the handle” by writing a letter to the editor.

    Holy moly, that’s dangerous. Expressing his opinions to a newspaper’s op-ed page. He should be silenced immediately, his job taken, his family left to starve.

    Certainly the expression of any repugnant personal opinion should have dire consequences.

    Just hope that the one making the decisions always agrees with the opinion one expresses. Or, alternatively, maybe its best just to shut up and not make an opinion known.

    Hmmmmm…I think I see a theme developing here.

  • verminme

    Sticks and stones are supposed to hurt not words. We should be very careful about resticting the conversation right now. In anger we call each other names. When I make someone angry, by accident or on purpose, I don’t become what they call me. Gates sure knows who he is. The cop has anger and identity issues possibly brought back from Iraq, but I don’t think it’s fair to brand him a racist and take his livlihood away without more conversation. Gates didn’t lose his job and I thought that yesterday Gates began to understand the first real world lesson he has actually learned in years.

  • jbjd

    The analysis changes when the person exercising the speech is a police officer, even off duty. The case law is full of cases on point.

  • Obama: Dubya’ 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Thank you. Somebody who gets my point.

    Bottom line though is that Gates showed you can get into a cops face, call him a racist, a rogue cop, a black hater, and you will get away with it, in fact it will enhance your reputation.

    Funny, when it’s Gates calling a white officer a racist, it’s a first ammendment right, when you’re a white officer speaking as a private citize and you give your opinion, first ammendment rights go right out the door and you are stripped of your livelyhood and your family is ruined.

    Oh, but I’m sure his children will feel much better and seek comfort that their father is an evil racist who deserved to have his life ruined.

  • rose

    reverand wright

  • oowawa

    If a letter writer identifies himself as a police officer and writes a racist inflammatory letter like this to the local paper, I cannot imagine any police department in the country acting much differently. Am I wrong?

  • http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

    Gates’ and Obama made blacks look bad and Barrett made cops look bad.

    When will it ever end..

  • tzada

    There is nothing worse than a gullible public, who has been had. Who stands to win by this?

    Did this happen? Was it a set up? Who stands to win by this? It’s a double hitter. Police are demonized and whitey is again shown as racist.

    Yesterday it was 2 Georgia police in a world of problems over a back ground check of Obama. They were whitey and officers.

    One has to question the Gates/Obama/Sweet connections and the situation that started this “dialogue.”

    We don’t have any of the facts, just what the msm feeds us. Who benefits from racial tensions?

    Could it be that some people in Washington don’t like this from the Oath Keepers?

    Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, veterans, peace officers, and firefighters who will fulfill the oath we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God.

    Our motto is “Not on our watch!”

    http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

  • Thinker

    Now THIS is I guess what Obama would call acting “stupidly.”

    Crowley, not racist.

    Justin Barrett, racist.

  • Ladydawnelle

    I concur

  • Hg

    Should Professor Gates be allowed to teach racism?

  • oowawa

    i am just wondering in a respectful manner what is the point of this diary?

    I would guess that the point of Bronwyn Harbor’s story is to demonstrate what genuine racism looks like so that we can contrast it with Sgt. Crowley’s actions as a responsible police officer doing his duty.

  • tzada
  • tzada

    2 days if Sharpton’s niece gets a hold of it.

  • Hg

    Odd that Obama said nothing about how stupid Gates acted.

  • Docelder

    Or is it wrong for a professor to teach solely about a single race? Or is it wrong for a higher institution to grant degrees based on the study of a single race? Looking past whether it is at all a practical study in the real world outside of academics… looking past, is this in fact maybe perpetuating a problem that might well disappear on it’s own if left to it’s own devices?

  • Thinker

    Based on what I’ve learned about this situation,
    Gates “showed his a**.”

    He acted a fool, got arrested, his buddy the President took his side without even knowing the facts.

    Did you see the beautiful sista who came to Crowley’s defense??

    I loved her interview.

  • Thinker

    this pretty much says it all.

  • mel

    This guy deserves what he got, no doubt about it, but it is a shame Gates will not get what he deserves which is a firing by Harvard!

    This guy has a gun, Gates has the futures of how man students a year who are resigned to follow the theories of Gates or have their futures destroyed by a failing grade.

    Question is, how many lives has this racist destroyed and how many minds has Gates destroyed?

    Lives and minds both terrible things to destroy. As a friend who was in an abusive relatinship once told me, she’d rather be beaten physically than to be destroyed mentally, because physical abuse dose sheal over tie, mental doesn’t!

  • tzada

    What is right and what is wrong with this picture?

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/afterbeers_PS-0436.jpg

  • tzada

    Rudy: ‘Shut Up’

    Rudy Giuliani, who has returned as a leading Republican spokesman, condemned Obama’s health care plan in an interview with Sean Hannity.

    He also offered, in response to the president’s hope that the Gates arrest would be a “teachable moment,” this:

    “He’s actually right. It is teachable. Here’s the lesson: Shut up.”

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Rudy_Shut_Up.html

  • Animal Control

    Good point!

  • Texas Playwright

    Well, there is Gates racism, there is bho the fraud racism and there is Barrett racism. Solutions?

  • Animal Control

    Sure he’s an expert at showing it.

  • Alex

    He has been with the support of a huge monthly check from Harvard.

  • http://shhhithitsthefan.wordpress.com/ It hits the fan

    Stupid Racist seems to just about cover it. One wonders why someone would say something like this in public. But on the other hand calling a respected black police officer an Uncle Tom for merely standing behind the facts in a case involving a white police officer is equally reprehensible. And where is the outrage of Gates reportedly calling Crowley a Cracker. It’s another racially derogatory word? Lots of stupidity to go around in my opinion.

    On another note, I wrote something about the abuses of our taxpayer money created by this so-called Stimulus package. It’s worth a read if only for the actual journalism I quote from the AP. And no, I am not kidding.

    Stimuless: Faking the big O

  • helenk

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_language.html

    So who is the one with class in this picture?

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    Sorry tzada I did not see your comment before I posted.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

  • Peggy Sue

    That’s a very telling photograph, Helen, only underscoring the fact that Crowley is a standup guy and that this whole thing was a fiasco. I had an immediate impression of Crowley during his short press conference: skilled, professional and unnerved by the press. This is a man who knows who he is.

    And I have to say, he was far more generous than I would be under the circumstances.

    As for the other cop [Barrett] however, his letter was blatantly racist. And incredibly dumb. I think reasonable people can see the difference and it in no way diminishes Sgt. Crowley or other good cops doing a very hard job in the public’s service.

    Crowley is a credit to citizens and the men and women with whom he serves.

    Barrett? Not so much. He should be canned.

  • Peggy Sue

    Sorry: not unnerved by the press.

  • http://! stodgie

    hey jbjd, doesn’t it give you even more concern when the one spouting off about racism is the president for goodness sakes!

  • http://! stodgie

    well wmcb, they let’s apply that to obama. he practiced racism in the campaign as as potus. you ready to boot him?

  • http://! stodgie

    well there is that however the reverse racism praticed by obama and his ilk leave me saying enought of this xxxx! i had a police officer be quite rude to me once and i was on a city commission. i did run around saying it was because i was a woman. i thought him a jerk but took care of the ticket. it wasn’t because i was a woman it was because he was simply a jerk in my view.

  • tzada

    lol np great minds think alike and I am proud to have someone like you on the same side as me. Thanks for all your insightful posts.

  • jwrjr

    Cowboy wisdom: Never miss a good opportunity to shut up.

  • http://syd4.blogspot.com/ SYD

    It’s already being implied in some blogs. Which is one of the reasons I am taking a break from politics this week. I can’t stomach the lies and innuendo.

    This letter has NOTHING to do with the Gates/ Crowley incident. It should be paid no attention whatsoever.

    We all know that there are real racists in this country. But their presence does not justify what Dr. Gates said or did to Sergeant Crowley.

    The circulation of this letter, I suspect, is a smokescreen for what has been done to the respectable officer under fire.

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    probably not,,sad too.

  • Ellen D

    With the coffee and donuts paragraph, it looks like he practices sexism too.
    He’s an equal opportunity offender.

  • Diana L. C.

    If you read the comments to the linked article, you might be appalled. Many, probably most, of them took offense to the fact that Gates was arrested for yelling at the officer in his own house. None took offense to the fact that he wasn’t courteous to the officer who was trying to confirm that he was indeed the owner and the person who should be in the house and that no one esle was there to be of concern (since two men had been reported). No one questioned the fact that Gates was clearly acting in a strange manner, even given his exhaustion from the trip and from trying to open the door. Their whole point seemed to be that the police are all fascists and we should be able to yell at them if they come into our house.

    Here’s my response to them. They really all deserve fascists for police officers. In almost all my dealings with the police, each one has been polite, fully self-controlled, all business. I always cooperated and never had any problems with them. Many have shown humor and kindness. Only a few were just gruff, but still doing their job.

    If it had been my white old grandfather when he was alive and if he was acting the way Gates was described as acting, I would have wanted a police officer, Black or White, taking him in. I would then know that something was wrong with him because my grandfather didn’t ever act any way but as a true “gentleman” (which is the term Whalen used).

    To me it shows Gates’ character in the worst light. Supposedly he is the epitome of good nature when he deems he is among peers of his own, in his mind, high status. But he must feel he can act rudely to anyone who does not meet his idea of proper status. That is not being a gentleman at all.

    How have we arrived at the point that rude behavior is o.k. when directed at the public servants who are assigned to protect us?

    One of my best friends is married to a lawyer, who is now in private practice. For years he served in a DA’s office. The governor of the state even asked him to consider becoming a judge. He spent many years putting gang members under lock and key. For that, he had to carry a gun at all times since he was a marked man. He had to try to take a different route to work every morning and to his home from work every night to confuse anyone who might try to kill him.

    Do I blame him for finally deciding, now that he has an adopted little girl, to leave public service? Not at all. But I mourn the fact that people like him can be viewed as being part of a fascist system. I am sad that we lose these kinds of people all the time because of the stress from the jobs.

    In no way do I think our courts are all about justice. But I also know that if I, or any of our family, have to go to court, I would rather it be in America than in any other country.

    I don’t think the charges should have been dropped against Gates. We might have finally been able to determine the exact nature of his tirade against the police. I am angry that he still seems to feel he was right to act as he did.

    The officer who wrote the letter should be fired. But we also need to put some kind of checks on the public funded university programs that serve as fermenting grounds for distorted thinking.

    I know that I will think twice if I am ever in a situation to witness something that appears to be against the law–especially if it involves anyone who looks as if he might be from a minority group.

    I am just comforted slightly by the fact that more of the public who were polled were on the officers’ side in this controversy.

  • Ellen D

    I guess our area is mostly non-black but we have had two young black guys move onto the street in the last while. They are noticeable because they seem really big and muscular and they each have and walk two large guard dogs. One walks two giant bull mastiffs.
    I can’t believe that they are that fearful in our area of seniors walking Shelties and Golden Retrievers.
    My son says it’s not fear, its keeping up their image.

  • rose

    because that is what Obama used in the run for president ,in the implied way he brought up the race issue and let his supporters and media run with it.

    I am all about equality for all and know there are problems on both sides but I think the constant beating up on anyone who disagrees with a normal issue and then made into a race issue, was just what AA were against,the overt implication of racism. It goes both ways. For Gates,Dyson,Cornnel,preachers in black churches{and do we have white churches or groups called white organizations?} using the same hateful language as this officer are inciting racism the same way and we are to accept this. It is time to admit both are wrong because as nation we need to quit hateful racists’ positions and move forward, as Obama keeps saying. We need to remember it is for the good of all. It takes two remmeber.

  • mountainaires

    This has nothing to do with Gates. And, I’m sick to death of hearing about white racism. Dog bites man.

    Let’s have a real discussion. About black racism.

    Are there NO BLACK RACISTS? Or is every racist on this earth white?

    Wait! I know of one black racist. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s mother! He said so himself. He said, “My mother hated white people.”

  • WMCB

    I was ready to boot him before he started the job.

  • rose

    Do you think what he experienced in Iraq,maybe PTSS is maybe apart of this anger position he displays much the same way as they turn against spouse and other innocent recipients of this problem of returning veterans of all races.?

  • Karma

    Wow…thanks for sharing the pic Helen.

    And I agree Peggy Sue.

  • Wisewoman

    Thanks for the comment WMCB. That is at the core of Gates problem too.

  • Hg

    Apparently the mother’s attitude rubbed off on the son. Keeping the heritage alive.

  • Peggy Sue

    Of course, there are black racists, even though it’s not PC to say that. The favorite meme is that racism can only come out of a position of power and privledge. The Gate’s situation turns that equation on its head.

    Gates is well educated, highly respected and well-heeled. The fact that he howled racism and/or racist profiling had everything to do with raw bias and stereotyping. How dare this white cop, a blue collar type, interrogate “me,” the respected, educated one. How dare he ask for my ID?

    Gates has been living in the rarified air of a Harvard don. I don’t begrudge the man his position. I’m sure he worked hard to attain the level he enjoys, even though he may have received a heft up along the way. But wouldn’t we all take the advantage when that extra nudge is offered, whether through family or associates or the political atmosphere. Or even blind luck?

    The disgruntlement from the majority of folks is the way Gate’s abused his position in this particular case, screaming racism where none existed, making all kinds of excuses for inexcusable behavior and trying to nail a cop, who appears to be everything we want in our police force [white or black], on charges of racism.

    Gates himself was out of control. And he wasn’t a big enough man to admit it. That doesn’t taint every black professional, anymore than this case taints every police officer.

    The teachable moment? That even when a man or woman is well-educated, highly regarded, and well-heeled, they can act like jerks given the right situation.

    In my mind this case has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with a 58-year old man who was out of sorts and tired and annoyed, who had a hissyfit but is covering his ass with an emotionally charged accusation.

    Who is the better man here–Gates or Crowley? I know where I come down.

  • oowawa

    Should Professor Gates be allowed to teach racism?

    The academic credentials of Henry Gates are very impressive. If anyone doubts that, please read the Wikipedia article on Gates. As a distinguished tenured professor, he is going to have a huge amount of leeway in what he can say and teach in the classroom. Inside the confines of Harvard, his authority must be godlike.

    Confrontations with the police are another matter, as he just discovered. When worlds collide . . .

  • Objective Analysis

    Well shouldn’t Gates be THANKFUL that this officer Barrett was not making the arrest?

    He really would have had his face busted, his cane proded up his behind and then been called the n-word or even shot or killed.

    I am wondering if Gates would had rant and raved about racism when that would have happened.

  • Peggy Sue

    No, I don’t think Gates should be “thankful” that Barrett wasn’t the cop that responded to the call [I mean how in the hell would he know one way or the other, which simply leans into the gross stereotyping that took place].

    But I do think that it behooves us all to encourage and support the Crowley-like officers out there and kick the Barretts [white or black] to the curb, where frankly, I think they rightly belong.

  • jbjd

    No; you are right. Seriously, the case law is really clear on this point. Most of us stop representing our employer when we ‘clock out.’ Not so with public safety employees.

  • jbjd

    Yes, of course but, nothing in the Constitution says the POTUS cannot be a racist misogynist homophobe.

  • Thinker

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_language.html

    EXTREMELY powerful picture. I just had to post it again.

    Thanks for making us aware of this.

    wow.

    It speaks volumes.

  • BlueTopaz

    There’s nothing more ignorant than a racist who doesn’t even know his own stupid traditions.

    LOL, good one!

    I wonder if Harvard will fire Gates for his racially charged language……….

  • http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I’m interested to know what all those people who think Gates was expressing his 1st amendments rights think about this guy being fired from both jobs for writing his letter.

    Smearing and destroying someones reputation seems to be ok – get invited to WH, keep job, no problem. Pundits on TV smeared the caller, the cop, and his dept. Everyone called them racists, etc. No one has yet to lose their job. People defended them claiming “it’s about our rights!!”

    Now, this dolt writes this email, (i think it was gross and stupid, btw) but he wrote this email, and lost two jobs, and his reputation is ruined.

    So, who is going to defend his rights?

    Gates’ speech, and the comments by the likes of Tweety, O’Donnell, (anyone on msnbc) were disgusting and smeared innocent people. I consider that hate speech. But Gates defenders claim he had the right. And obviously the pundits felt they had the right to smear the cop and caller as racist.

    But calling someone a jungle monkey is a fire-able offense, and you have no rights to use the term….

    I find this interesting.

  • BlueTopaz

    Yep!

  • BlueTopaz

    Can I use my stilettos?

  • Julia

    This is so double standard in certain sense. They don’t tolerate racially insensitive language but they tolerate totally sexist language without any kind of problem. I’m completely against racism, verbal abuses, etc but this is so fake. Why are Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper, etc still working???

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    racist AA’s and yes they do exist ie gates/obama seem to think they have a patent on the word ‘racism’. It’s not racist in their minds to hate on the “mexcuns” or “whitey” because they are incapable of being racist. ALL racism is against the AA community and the AA community alone and this incident exemplifies this thought process for them.

  • Julia

    You shouldn’t put guys with that much hate in them between your Harvard University professors, this is very dangerous too

  • justme_kc

    I don’t see the point of even posting this information here. Is this not perpetuating the problem when a douchebag like this ones gets attention.

  • Senneth

    Yes, Tricia, sexism and misogyny are still acceptable behavior in our society. Little has changed around that behavior.

    Didn’t this police officer think before he decided to email a newspaper and how his racist, idiotic behavior would impact all police officers. It is just amazing.

  • kgirl1028

    It’s what’s people do when they think no one is watching that tells you who they are. Crowley is not only not racist but he’s a quality person. Unlike the fool some of these people elected as president. Note Gates is Obama’s friend and Crowley was smeared by him but it is Crowley that helps him. And to top that off, I would venture to say some of you btter hope ou don’t have to depend on Obama for anything. SOmeone who won’t help a crippled friend down the stairs is not someone i would put myself at the mercy of…

  • tzada

    Evidently not any time soon. Now this is ra

    The Department of Justice recently dropped the conviction of Jerry Jackson member of the “New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” (NBPP).  The Washington Times  has covered the Black Panther reversal at the Department of Justice revealing,
    “Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perelli, No.3 official in the Obama Justice Department, was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party of intimidating voters in Philadelphia during November’s election, according to interviews.”
    The NBPP member has not stayed away from expressing his views on a social media site like MySpace.  Mr. Jackson’s(WARNING DISTURBING CONTENT) MySpace site is chock full of disturbing images with explicit racial overtones.  A sample of some of the phrases and images on his MySpace page include:
    “BLACK POWER,BLACK LOVE,BLACK UNITY,BLACK MINDS,KILLIN CRAKKKAS”
    “F*** Whitey’s Christmas”
    An image of an execution scene from the cult hit film “Pulp Fiction”
    A photo of a man holding a sign saying, “DEPORT WHITE PEOPLE”
    A derogatory anti-cop poster titled “BEWARE OF PIG”
    An image of Saddam Hussein before his execution
    A photo of a cop sitting next to a black child in a toy car.  Beneath the image the phrase “Racial Profiling: It Starts Early”

    It is hard to believe such web content is coming from an elected party official in Philadelphia, yet Mr. Jackson has been appointed again to be a poll watcher  for the upcoming Democratic Primary in Philadelphia’s municipal election.  

    Update 10:00pm: Mr. Jackson’s MySpace page has been removed.  A cached version is available through the link now.

    Update July 31, 2009 10:30 am: The Washington Times Editorial page has come out with new information about the Justice Department’s cover up in the New Black Panther Case, and Washington Times reporter Jerry Seper is writing that lawmakers on the Hill are wanting to take a second look into the panther case.

  • tzada

    Eric Holder’s Hate Crime Color Scheme

    Imagine the Ku Klux Klan in full regalia standing before a polling place deep in Dixieland hurling racial insults at black people arriving to vote in the last election. Imagine further a Republican-run U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) dropping the civil complaint against the KKK that had been filed by a Democrat-run DOJ.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/eric_holders_hate_crime_color.html

    http://www.wnd.com/images/090731blackpanthers.jpg

  • Brendy

    I’m sure the black racists (against the whites) use similar, vile language but this guy – being a cop – should KNOW better than write such a PUBLIC letter. Yeah, we ALL have opinions, thoughts and ideas but most of us wouldn’t actually voice them publically. Well, Gates did – I guess, with his ‘mamma’ comments and the like.

    ‘Yo mamma’, ‘cracker’ and ‘honkey’ are phrases the blacks use to insult whites and the terms ‘monkey’, ‘banana’ and ‘jungle’ are used by whites to insult blacks (because monkeys and jungles do exist and ARE in and identified with Africa – the place blacks apparently call ‘home’, their ‘motherland’). The blacks can, apparently, get away with their name calling, but whites cannot, (even if monkeys and jungles ARE in Africa). Blacks call whites ‘cracker’ – I guess – because crackers are white????

    Still, very unprofessional of the cop to write such a letter, just as Gates was very unprofessional since he’s SUPPOSED to be a high-brow ‘professional’, a ‘teacher’ – YIKES!

  • http://lesstalkmoreactivism.blogspot.com whoframedrudy

    “The cop has anger and identity issues …”

    He’s not psychologically fit for his job. At least that is what will be decided in his termination hearing. If he wrote a book and someone said ‘ban it’, I’d say ‘First Amendment.’ But this is about fitness for duty.

  • http://www.homestudioessentials.com/ A-Nony-Mouse

    People who only see “racism” when it’s perpetrated by non-whites in what they call “reverse racism” are pretty obvious people. We see you there. We know what you’re really on about. You’re not fooling anyone with a mind.

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