Bud Light, Red Stripe Beer & a Blue Moon Beer for Race Relations

Thank you for your comments QH

I look forward to the outcome of this 'little gathering'! Keep us posted!

Actually, the suggested meeting for a beer between the involved parties, President Obama, Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley, emanated from Sgt. Crowley, as reported by the Associated Press.

Sgt. Crowley made the suggestion to President Obama when President Obama called him after his initial remarks at the news conference regarding the actions of the police.

The offer from Sgt. Crowley was revealed by President Obama during that press conference.

The President then passed on word to Professor Gates.

Thanks, Karen. I'm sure albertacowpoke will make the necessary correction. Nevertheless, it was President Obama who made the telephone call to Sgt. Crowley and evidently President Obama thinks Sgt. Crowley's suggestion is a good idea.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to highlight this story, but it seems the 'Beer Summit' is the latest example of a well-worn genre: Racial Politics in the White House.

This is more damage control rather than a serious meeting.  Obama spoke before hearing the full story.

I do agree the police should not have arrested Gates.

Thanks for your comments 158.  I guess hindsight is always 20/20.

This is a great article and I think that President Obama is doing a good thing here.  However..I'm honestly not happy with how big of a deal this is.  I mean...Obama and a few other famous guys are having a few beers...sounds great, have a great time.

Now..why does America need to know about this...well so that we know how relations are with Obama and other high ranking Americans.  Should it really be such a big story though?  I mean come on people..I was at the beach a week ago watching the news...and was hearing about this.  Now I'm hearing about it again....my lord!

cheers.

Hardly Presidential for sure TannerJO. 

RUSH:  Obama threw his own grandmother under the bus as "a typical white person."  Remember?  It was in the race speech, where he also threw Reverend Wright overboard.  So Obama "got where he is because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying really hard."  What, not be racist?  And "we really like it when black people make us feel that way."  We really like it when black people tell us we know you're not racist, is that what she's saying?  Yes, my friends, she's saying that -- and that's as race-oriented as you can be.  We conservatives are colorblind.  We don't even see people that way. He started it. Let's go to the book. Now, we don't have this particular bite, but I remember Obama in one of his books -- and I've heard the audio portion of it, said, "The way you have to deal with white people..." I'm paraphrasing. The way you have to deal with white people show 'em you're not a threat and you mean them no harm and then everything is fine.  He really loves white people.  Here's the first one. This is a portion of Obama reading from his book: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

OBAMA:  That's just how white folks'll do you. (sic)  It wasn't merely the cruelty involved.  I was learning that black people could be mean and then some.  It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place, or at least thought you deserving of their scorn.

RUSH:  Oh, this sounds like a lot of love for white people.  And here's Obama bring up the book Heart of Darkness and what it taught him about white people and why white people hate.

OBAMA:  So I read the book to help me understand what it is that makes white people so afraid.  Their demons, the way ideas get twisted around.  It helps me understand how people learn to hate.

RUSH:  "So I read the book to help me understand what it is that makes white people so afraid.  Their demons, the way ideas get twisted around.  It helps me understand how people learn to hate."  That doesn't sound like a guy who loves white people, Ms. Walsh.  These are his own words! He supposedly wrote these words and he now concludes by reading more from the book.

OBAMA:  The emotions between the races could never be pure.  Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves.   Whether we sought out our commons or our salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

RUSH:  Joan Walsh: "Obama got where he is because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying really hard and we really like it when black people make us feel that way."  What a dense, shallow person. (interruption)  It is. It's almost like the "Magic Negro" thing.  When you get down to it, Joan Walsh is almost saying, "Hey, you know, this is a guy that doesn't scare us."  Only she's saying it in reverse:  "We are the ones that don't scare him."  It's like Joan...  (interruption) No, it's not magic. It's Joan Walsh is the magic white.  Joan Walsh is describing the magic white. Now, I just want to make sure I have this straight.  

It turns out I am the racist.  Now, you people have been listening to this program for 20 years.  I have been hosting it for 20 years.  I have never said, and you've never heard me call my grandmother "a typical white woman."  You've never heard me call any black person "a typical black person."  The truth is, Ms. Walsh, President Obama is so race-obsessed he writes a book about the father he never really knew subtitled "A Story of Race and Inheritance."  He marries a woman who's lucky enough to get into Princeton but writes a book about how she's always an outsider in white culture. Then the two of them sit in Reverend Wright's hate temple of black liberation theology for 20 years -- and I am the one with the race problem, Ms. Walsh?  The problem is people like you being in the media, Ms. Walsh.