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2009-07-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

About that charity you run, Professor Gates

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Posted by tipper 2009-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Inkwell, the Gates charity is designed to help blacks trace their genealogy through their DNA. The stated purpose for Gates' trip to China which preceded this incident was to study Yoyo Ma's genealogy.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. When did Yoyo Ma discover he was black?

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-26 00:32|| 2009-07-26 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Background on Perfesser Skippy. Long but interesting...

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr/page1

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-26 00:48|| 2009-07-26 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting read Tu.

I guess its true - You do eventually become the thing you hate.

Gates started out hating racism and the 'white man' just like his mother. His whole life seems to be about hating the white man and about advancing the 'black man' - not so much with ending racism as reversing the 'roles'.

And he ends up being very much a racist and much like the 'white man' he hated so much.

Explains a lot.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-26 11:06|| 2009-07-26 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO, the fact that his charity may come under investigation explains a lot about the incident.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-07-26 11:12|| 2009-07-26 11:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmmmmmmmmmm. When did Yoyo Ma discover he was black?
Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-26 00:32
It's not that Yo Yo Ma is black; it matters ONLY that he is NOT white.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-07-26 11:34|| 2009-07-26 11:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I read once that Pres Truman had remarked that when formerly oppressed peoples take hold of the reigns of power they often become just as cruel & iron handed as their former oppressors.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-26 11:43|| 2009-07-26 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 they often become just as cruel & iron handed as their former oppressors.

But also greedier and stupider, too. Uglier also thrown inas a bonus...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-07-26 12:31|| 2009-07-26 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 To bad Sgt. Crowley didn't roll up on him when this was going down. He probably would've wet his pants laughing and all of this could've been avoided...

I spend every July and August in my house near Oak Bluffs. I love bicycling, and because of a hip replacement I had a couple of years ago, I had a 24-speed tricycle made by hand in Germany. Every day I write in the morning, then ride eight miles from my house to South Beach. I get off, look at the ocean, then get back on and ride home. My tricycle has a bell that sounds like the Good Humor man, and I ring it when I pass people. Everybody waves and says, 'There goes that Henry Louis Gates Jr.!'

God, the man is a friggn dork...

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-26 14:09|| 2009-07-26 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 God, the man is a friggn dork...

As an occasional Dork, I find that statement Offensive!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-26 14:55|| 2009-07-26 14:55|| Front Page Top

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