The Race Myth: Liberals and the Media's lies!

The most revealing instance of Massachusetts politicians disconnection to the people they represent was right around the time I moved to Massachusetts; when Professor Gates was arrested by the Cambridge Police. From what I read in the newspapers and heard on the T.V., the people of Massachusetts were up in arms over the way this police officer treated the visiting Harvard professor. The race card was thrown out there, even the President stated the police department acted "stupidly." But again, this was not the case.

My experience began when I needed to get a haircut. I didn't know the area well so I walked around until I found a barber. I was the only white person in the shop, there were four black males sitting around, but it didn't bother me in the slightest. I grew up in a city and served in the Marine Corps, so I was accustomed to being around people of different races, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities. In my experience the people who get up in arms about race issues are the elite people of color who hold rallies and claim everyone and their brothers are racists, and the white suburbanites afraid to call anyone black ("you mean African-American," I've been corrected many times by the people who are too afraid to have any minority live next door to them). 

It doesn't matter what I say, but what does matter is what the people of Massachusetts have told me. In this same barbershop the topic of Mr. Gates came up and unlike the WSJ/NBC poll (where 4% of blacks found the professor at fault versus 30% who found the officer at fault; 11% of Democrats found Mr. Gates at fault compared to 47% of Republicans who found him at fault) the four black men in the shop all thought the professor acted poorly and should not have treated Sergeant Crowley in the manor in which he did. See: Teachable Moment. This was quite the opposite of the numbers reported in the polls.

Moreover, all four men said the President made a huge mistake by commenting on the situation, that he overstepped the bounds of his office and should not have commented publicly on the issue. These guys aren't right-wing fanatics or "crazy Christians", they are regular people, working people. Next time I want to learn what the people of Massachusetts want I will ask the people of Massachusetts, not some loyal fanatics who show up in support at my stacked-deck town hall. It would be nice to see some of our elected officials hit the streets some time and meet the people who cast the ballots.