Thank God for Beer-Drinking Police

Yawn...yet another vapid celebrity-distraction du jour in post-rational America.

"What it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are -- how vulnerable all people of color are and all poor people to capricious forces like a rogue policeman," said Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Gates' entire career centers on the study of black culture, yet this recurrent theme of African-American narratives - captured in countless books, movies, songs, and raps - somehow escaped him until now. All academia should be screaming: "Fraud!".

Fraud Alert! America's leading exponent of post-racial blame-the-victim ideology, who never spoke out when Oscar Grant or countless others were murdered by police, suddenly wants to pimp the tribe he regularly denounces when his own elitist bubble is pricked.

Fraud Alert! America's post-racial president - who also was mute on the murder of Oscar Grant in Oakland, yet sent a letter of condolence to the families of the four Oakland police killed in March - suddenly wants to talk tough and pimp the tribe he recently denounced at an NAACP talk, when one of his own crew is bum-rushed.

Fraud Alert!
Thank God for Beer-Drinking Police
Statement from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
WASHINGTON, July 30
http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-30-2009/0005069538&EDATE=

"Let me say that I thank God that we live in a country in which police officers put their lives at risk to protect us every day, and, more than ever, I've come to understand and appreciate their daily sacrifices on our behalf. I'm also grateful that we live in a country where freedom of speech is a sacrosanct value and I hope that one day we can get to know each other better, as we began to do at the White House this afternoon over beers with President Obama."

Attention young black/brown males: The next time police cannot provide a reasonable justification for stopping you, just suggest that he or she work it out with you over a glass of beer. If either of you don't booze, then perhaps a cup of tea? Go ahead - just try it...

But remember: insist that the cop pay, because we know what happens when a cop sees you reach for your wallet...