A Gentleman’s view.

The President’s quiet diplomacy squashes potential racial briar patch over a beer.

This didn’t start out smooth as silk, but once again the President displays class and diplomacy beyond his years handling the Professor Gates arrest racial brouhaha. The media has a vested interest in what happens today in politics for several reasons; ratings, lost cost and possible big return if something said or done blows up. Politics is the new ongoing reality soap opera for the media outlets today. You can see with the amount of new shows and various broadcasters applying their skill in this arena, but I digress. The Republicans continuing on the theme of making this Presidency most difficult for America as possible were ripe to accuse Obama of being a racist by his statement that the actions of the police were handled stupidly with regards to finding out this was about a man in his own home. All of a sudden white men came out of the woodwork to let this black man, President or not, know he had no business disparaging a white male police officer. Both Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh decried a racist black man in the position of the President attacking a lowly police sergeant in a small town like Cambridge, MA. It appears the same white folks who thought he was cool in Iowa that got this party started for this President, no longer mattered and would not for a return engagement either. They claimed that the President was exhibiting actions of hatred to the white race. The temerity of a black man here in America thinking he had the authority to pass judgment on a white man for any reason whatsoever, and more so, to do this publicly, just really put a lot of white males in high positions all over America all out of joint. All of a sudden now there was this big bad black mean old President telling the world the poor little white cop from Cambridge was stupid and didn’t know how to do his job. How dare he!

I saw the press conference the Sergeant held after the meeting with the Professor, the V.P. and the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. I love saying that! I personally was very impressed with Police Sergeant and like some pundits voiced that night, think a star has been born, we will see. What stood most importantly to me was not that they got together for all the world to see on camera, but that when they came together prior with family members to get the special tour and in so doing decided to engage in that experience as one large family group, I found that most impressive. While the press was hungrily sitting on the sidelines waiting for one group or the other to ‘step in it’ so to speak, the ‘Opposition Party’ has been looking for ways to hurt the President in a real nasty way. To the point of having many voices make claims and raise questions about the validity of our current President holding office to just shy of a revolution being called for by legit representatives of public office. There was some madness out on the campaign trail with McCain and Palin allowing that kind of talk to gather stream, but now the Party leadership has decided to look the other way as well instead of standing up to these fringe crowds and declaring the wrongness of the Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck mentality in the party. All of this ‘birther chaos’ ensuing because the President is black. He made what appeared to many as an inappropriate remark about a white in a public forum, and by gum that kind of behavior can’t be tolerated in America. Representatives wanted to take up committee time and money on legislation related to this issue. Like they could really tell the “black man” to say he was sorry for what he said about that good decent American white man, attacking him and by proxy all white policemen, and projection all white men period.

You never heard of such an asinine suggestion, pardon me for not stuttering when I say this, but such stupidity being visited upon our legislative branch of government in my life. But, it mattered not, for the President, just as cool as you please, invites the two men involved to chill with him at his place. They may not become fast friends, however it appears that both men came and left with openness required for the advancement of racial harmony that would never have sprung up had they not decided to take the tour together with their families. This happened because a moment in time was seized upon by a wise man constantly being declared as the worst thing to happen to this country since slavery ended

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