Yet America Is Still Racist

Okay, what you commented here maybe right. But what is the reason that this African - American man was arrested by this white policeman? Did he committed a crime, or did he did something wrong aganist the law? Or the white policeman arrested him for no reason at all, becauseh he is black, simple like that? If he did committed a crime, there is no excuse for it, whether we are black, white, yellow or brown. You have to giving more convincing evidence here.

I don't understand your discussion. Why is it racist to arrest someone who broke the law? Or do you mean that he was arrested even though HE DID NOT break the law? I'm confused, here. If the African-American did something unlawful, then it is of course not racist to arrest him. You can't give him special treatment just because he's black, that's racism too.

I gather by the inference that if a black man or woman is arrested even though they are guilty of the crime, and the cop that arrested was a white man, that means that America is still racist. Sort of allowing certain ethnic groups more leeway. I suppose if that Unversity professor had gone beserk and shot the officer plus some more people, they would say that it was justified because of the horrible things that were done to the African Negroes through their ancestors being brought to America as slaves. Why not forget about race, and concentrate that we are all of the human race or do they know something we don't, that the blacks came from another planet? I don't think so.

Without really knowing the facts of this case (noone but those who were present do) I see this as another incident of police taking their authority too far. They do this at times no matter the race of who they arrest. A person should be able to yell at a police officer when that officer is on his or her property as long as no threats are being made. It appears an arrest was certainly unwarranted here, unless there were some things said/done by Gates that we are not hearing. As a side note, I have witnessed all types of profiling and unjust behavior by police directed toward whites. Not saying that there are not racist cops but the problem with some police goes way beyond race and it irritates me to see the media acting like a white person has never had their trunk searched or been detained and or arrested for no good reason.

I don't know that it was based on racism that the professor was arrested. I did see the news reports and such, but since we can't trust the media to report with 100% accuracy it's hard telling what really happened. Does racism still exist yes it does, not just here but all over the world. It's sad but it's true, and unfortunately we will never be able to change everyone's minds but even if we can get one racist to open up their mind just a little bit to see that we are all human beings, and we all deserve to be treated as such, then we've succeeded in my opinion. Interesting though about the Dem and Rep statistics you mention here. It does make one stop and think a minute about the situation we put ourselves into when we make our votes.

the sad reality of life is that racism will always exist in the world, and that it will be used as an excuse for many things. people play the race card as well when they do not want to take responsibilty for their actions, that bums me out. there is also reverse racism, i experienced it back home and it is happening in zimbabwe and south africa too, no one really speaks about that though do they?

The way things are going in the US anymore, I think we'll always be considered a racist country. Its getting to where you have to watch everything that you say if you don't want to be called a racist, anymore here in America. Especially if you are white,I have seen people from other races call whites racist for saying or doing things that they are offended by, but if they say or do the same thing nothing is ever said about it. I just think people just take things overboard when it comes to racist matters and being offended about every little thing now a days. It makes me wonder what the public reaction would have been if it would of been a black cop and a white man being arrested, most likely nothing would have been said about it. As for as the woman that made the 911 call, I listened to it today and the woman didn't say anything racist. What I can't understand is even if she would have decribed them as being black, why would that have been a racist comment.

This is old new. Posted on July 30th of 2009? This is just very old new. Apologize has been made and also tapes of recorded talks have been released. Now for people to blow this up again in the media is the cause of racist people out there. The whole country is expressing a pathos that gets people attracted into creative thinking. And then call it racist. I am Asian. We get a lot of put downs, but not a lot of violent acts outside of Asian. Not for a black professor to be arrest I believe it is okay, because if you look at the footage it wasn't all white cops there. There were other race there and to say they all collectively hated on the black man is just wrong. He did something out of order and he must pay. For someone to either tell a taxi driver or himself to break his door down is just ridiculous. Think about it? Locksmith? Come on. Simple solutions and people take the harder solutions to get their way out of things. We talk politics for what? It is more simple then that lets not involve all this racist stuff in it. Yes racism still exist but not this is content or situation. People blow it up like how Obama isn't a citizen of the U.S.(which is a lie, he is). This is the problem with our world now. TOO MUCH FREEDOM OF SPEECH, which in turn influence ignorant people to react. We need more educated and smarter individuals ready to look for the facts then swallow an ignorant individuals facts. God bless

Hey hold your horses people before you start fighting each other i watch the news in CNN regarding the real audio record of that call from 911 to the one who called to them. there was no racial remarks or insults. the 911 operator how ever was merely asking if the people there was either black or hispanic. don't fight over guys. be friendly.

I feel that no country in this world exists where racism is not an issue .Think aussies are much more racist than the Americans but still racism is in the minds of people.In a widely diversified country like India also ,racism exists.So I would say that till politicians who make most of this issue are not wiped out completely there is no end to this.

i think no matter what happens or who is who in our country, there is always going to be racial tension. i just dont think there is anything we can do to solve that problem one hundred percent.