Racial chip on his shoulder

As if the news couldn't get any more depressing or shocking, the issue with Professor Gates and the Cambridge Police Department seemed to take the trophy for Thoughtless Criticism. Oh, but wait, it gets better - or worse however you want to look at it - when asked a question regarding the confrontation between Gates and the Police, our President Obama response was that the police department's action was stupid. Way to go Prez!!! It doesn't look good when a president speaks out with a bias concerning a public issue he knows nothing about. Of course, my common sense immediately turns negative and realizes immediately its becoming a racial issue. Does our President Obama have a racial chip on his shoulder? Does Professor Gates have a racial chip on his shoulder? If this is the case, then we'll never ever have anything near equality in our country because we'll forever we walking on our tippy toes trying not to offend anyone and someone will get off scott free when they are guilty.

Maybe you saw it coming, maybe you knew it was inevitable, but I am so naive about this stuff. I believed Obama's "Change" proclamation for equality for politics (which has been all but blown out of the water and running down the drain) and "hope" for unity of the differences between the human races but now I know his prima donna was nothing more than fluffy words of deceit.

What does this do for our relationship as far as racial problems are concerned? In my opinion, President Obama has made it worse and created a huge pothole between what could have been and what is, and maybe will be. I have a few friends who warned me this would happen, but I was not brought up to think in that way. I don't want there to be division or skepticism. I would presume to have a president who brings the country together not one who deliberately presents the issue in the manner that President Obama did to divide the country. President Obama is certainly very self-assured that he is untouchable and his racial attitude for Professor Gates and against the police department will be accepted, although he has now retracted the "meaning" of his words and probably hoping no one observed his bias. There are plenty of great politicians of Barack Obama's race who have never made an issue of the color of their skin. They have served our country with pride and grace and honor.

It's too late for President Obama to pick up the pieces of his few words of dissent and make it all better. Having a beer with the arresting police officer at the White House will never put it to rest.