Blue in Cambridge...

Would the police enter a house,  ask a white man  in his own home to prove he wasn't a burglar?
I mean in Boston, Cambridge, Mass.  what is the likelihood that it goes beyond...Is this your home sir?
There are race attitudes involved in policing, oh yes, and black men or latino men in blue hear the same drummer, blue is the color that matters...even in those cases where white men in blue have executed black men in blue...those mistaken undercover things, or shoot outs where suddenly the black man in blue...becomes just a black man, and police officer is gunned down by his fellow officers.

It is not an easy business, but i think the Cambridge police have it all wrong here.

They entered the house and infuriated the black owner by making him prove he was nt a burglar in his own home. They should apologize for in their blue hearts I think they know it doesn't go down that way elsewhere.  If the black man in blue goes into a home to investigate the burglary and comes across the white male owner, he too does not ask the white man to prove he is not a burglar... well mostly... unless the house is a drug kingpin's house and they want him to get angry and act out...so they can through him in the back of a padded wagon...you see, it is provocative...when the police treat us as if we are criminals, we all want to know what hell is on this man's mind...that he would come into MY HOUSE and ask me if I am a burglar.
the black man in this case, professor Gates is a tv personality, a famous scholar, has studied race in the US, observed upon these questions with scholarly moment and power, and now in the age of Obama... we see some things have not CHANGED.

Bin Laden's Kidney

A story in the news about a man in Pakistan, deeply in debt, faces a choice: sell his child or his kidney. Pakistan our staunch ally in the search for Bin Laden...remember him? Yes, the one President Bush promised to capture and bring to sudden justice, later a star of Republican Presidential Campaign ads, the one supposed to help us forget how the GOP brought the world's leading economy to its knees,

[no, not China ...US the conquerors of Iraq; the home of Saddam who was really behind the Trade Centers; oh...I will have to declare a Red Alert to bring this all back to your memory, or make an amputee war veteran take off his artificial leg before being allowed to get on an airplane...Take that you terrorists!!!] where was I...oh yes, Pakistan...

such extreme oppression there, it is nearly as bad as in the USA where credit card companies can drain the life from an unpaid debtor, and Corporate rights are so much more important than human rights, just ask any member of the solid five voting majority of our Supreme Court...oh that word "Supreme" meant so much more when Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall , and Justice Douglass...or Felix Frankfurter... this group reminds me more of Justice Taney...or the 1896 group that decided Blacks were not people but property, now in Pakistan, people sell their children because the rights of a creditor are more important than the individuals.  That couldn't happen here. We know that corporations don't give their lives in combat, they just take the profits from war and elect people who think war is the way to solve problems.  In Pakistan that government, we gave them lots of our tax dollars, and military stuff too...well I hope they are better at finding Bin Laden than at taking care of their children, or... maybe we should be looking for his kidney.