Who's been acting stupidly?

Here's a funny article about the Obama-Stupidly comments from the Examiner

My imaginary transcript of the phone conversation between Sgt. James Crowley and President Obama

Since I can't copy the whole thing, here's some funny excerpts:

"Sgt. Crowley: Hello this James.

President Obama: Hello Sgt. Crowley this is Barack Obama the President of the United States.

Sgt. Crowley: Oh that is funny. Nice one. Really who is this?

President Obama: Really Sergeant it is me you are talking to the man from the White House.

Sgt. Crowley: Hmmm. I have to be sure could you fax me over some identification please.

President Obama: NO I WILL NOT!

Sgt. Crowley: Sir how am I suppose to believe this is really you.

President Obama: Is this how a black President gets treated in America? Would you be asking President Bush for some identification?"

Racism and stupidity

It's easy to say racism is stupid. Here's the argument from both sides:

"If a mild-mannered, bespectacled Ivy League professor who walks with a cane can be pulled from his own home and arrested on a minor charge (only because of he's black), the rest of us don't stand a chance. "

From the other side, the police is doing him a public service by acting on a potential break-in. He's out of line by, allegedly, yelling the following to the police:
"you don't know who you're messing with" and something regarding the officer's mum.

I can feel the entitlement he has as a University Professor at Harvard. After all that he has achieved, he is only a black man in a nice neighborhood: he has to make extra effort to explain why he's there. Well, in the case, all he needs to do is not talking trash.

To me, both sides are losers over this.

Racism and prejudice

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day and we had Ms. Ruby Nell Bridges as the keynote speaker in this years luncheon. She's the little girl in 1960 who became the first black pupil in an integrated school in Mississippi.

Nice speech and stories about her first year in school. She actually spent the whole first year as the only student in the classroom. All white students were taken out of school by their parents. I felt very sad that there's so much fear (not hatred) in these white people.

It's been so much better since then but we still see great gaps between different races. Black, white, Latinos are still in different neighborhoods and we still need to argue for AA. Where there's difference, there's prejudice. It's just how you take it.