Great article. I too found this “blacklash” an encouraging sign of change in public sentiment. My concern, however, is that “the writing on the wall” will be ignored by a wide swath of people who are either genuinely angry at white America, or are so vested in the race business that they can’t afford to have it end.

As to the appropriateness of the President’s comments, Mark Steyn summed it up thusly: “The president of the United States may be reluctant to condemn Ayatollah Khamenei or Hugo Chávez or that guy in Honduras without examining all the nuances and footnotes, but sometimes there are outrages so heinous that even the famously nuanced must step up to the plate and speak truth to power. And thank God the leader of the free world had the guts to stand up and speak truth to municipal police Sgt. James Crowley.”

As long as the Commander in Chief still thinks in terms of racism, we will still have to deal with racism.

For another angle on “victimhood” you might like my
”Crazies To My Left” post.

on the white Conn. firefighters case. Our soon to be confirmed SC justice Sotomayor was overturned when she was amongst others proved that it’s not always whites that deserved to be called racist. I wonder if Obama had that in mind when he said what he did. It’s not only the fact that he called the Cambridge police “stupid”, it’s his follow up comments that “there has been a history in this country of racial profiling against blacks and Hispanics” that made my hair stand up.

believe it or not, in my high school classroom, students actually use racist claims as a joke. For instance, if I ask an Hispanic student to stop talking, and he refuses, I may move him to another seat. He’ll look at me and say something like: “You re just moving me because I’m Hispanic,” with a big grin on his face. Then another student might call out: “You’re just giving her a hard time because she’s white! That’s racist!” Nobody is serious about it.

There is so much diversity among kids and the people they hang out with and date. Racial barriers among the young are fading…it’s the grown-ups who continue to fuel the sparks that remain.

…that libs and the press had in mind when they hailed Obama as a post-racial candidate, yet it’s necessary if we ever are to be truly post-racial.

I don’t believe that Crowley (the cop) was looking specifically for a black robber. The 911 call has come out and the dispatcher asked if the robber was black or white and the caller said she thought one might be hispanic and she couldn’t see the other one. So I don’t think racial profiling was a factor.

I am a white Southerner. I grew up as schools were being integrated and the issue of the day was busing. I remember seeing, as a child, white men attempt to intimidate black men and women from voting.

I’m 52. I’ve had half a century of seeing things change — and I can testify personally to the extent of that change. But now, I’ve had a bellyfull of being told that I am somehow responsible for the problems of this group or that group because of something some ancestor may or may not have done.

~I~ have never impeded anyone’s civil rights based on their race, sex, or religion.

As of right now, I will not take responsibility for anyone’s actions but my own. So I don’t plan to cut anyone any slack based on their race, sex, or religion, either.

No positive — no negative — that’s real equality. When things like sex, religion, and race are merely descriptive adjectives, and any spin the hearer wants to put on them is THEIR friggin’ problem, not mine.

I’m done with my chains — I proclaim myself emancipated from the shackles of guilt.

eloquent
and completely accurate.

I believe even here in Alabama that racism is literally dead and only ones that profit from it perpetuate the corpse of it.

Mr. Gates, sadly is the poster child of the continuation of bias in our Country. He should be called to the carpet.

Absolutely amazing… but I love the point up at the top… we may have seen some sort of a tide turn here… a white man actually standing up to racism charges and not backing down. Everything about this issue was race related except for Sgt. Crowley’s actions. Gates reaction, comments, Obama’s stupidity remarks, even the beer fest. They couldn’t even get that right… might have worked had they not felt the need to break out Biden so that the picture was balanced. Obama is anything but the post-racial president.