"Grasshopper....What Have We Learned?"

According to an AP report posted on Yahoo News a few days ago, the Harvard professor who cried foul when police officers were dispatched to his home is in the middle of a 'project' on 'racial' stuff in America. He was working on this BEFORE the incident at his home where he was disrespectful of the police and made a big scene.

According to the AP report, this professor has said he is going to 'make a documentary of the incident' and 'include it in his project.'

So far, there has been much said about the 'racial profiling' (that didn't exist on the part of anyone but the professor) by police. There have been some things written about the neighbor who called in the burglary report, implying that she had something to hide, that she was trying to make trouble for the professor, that possibly she was 'playing a joke' on him because he is black.

We have now heard the tapes of the call. Today, we have heard from the neighbor who made the call to 911. She didn't use the words that have been attributed to her. She was trying to do a good thing. She even said that perhaps the person or persons breaking in 'forgot their key.'

But this lady has been harassed, her mother was brought into the media fray and she has to come forth and try to get people to settle down and think rationally as she did when making the 911 call.

The 'beer summit' will go forth at the White House with much PR for the professor and his friend who lives there. Will we hear more about this 'project' on race?

The lady will try to return to normalcy of life.

But I suspect that those who wish to make the police officer out to be a bad guy, those who wish to make ALL policemen out to be bad guys, willl keep on stirring the pot. And this is just so wrong. And sad.

Comments: 8

Sandy and John J. Jul 29, 2009, 2:46pm EDT

SO FACTUALLY and CLEARLY STATED, Shirley! Thank you!! As I commented on another article that was obviously futher stirring the pot of racial unrest, what exactly are folks attempting to accomplish to and for good by targeting an officer that was OBVIOUSLY NOT being racial to futher the cause of racial discrimination in general, other than merely venting their own hostility toward an innocent target? That makes no sence whatsoever... There are enough "genuine" examples of bad people, bad cops, politicians and preachers to target, stand up and fight against, without aiming their overall polital hostility and/or frustrations toward those who are innocent.......

Shirley U Understand Me S. Jul 29, 2009, 2:56pm EDT

Thank you very much, Sandy. I have just read so much negative stuff about this. People just seem to want to believe the worst about another person, even if they are seeing them from a distance as most of us are in this case.

I have many friends who are black. I have close relatives who are bi-racial. I love them, cherish them. Anyone can be a target, can be called 'racist' or bigot, but it doesn't make the charges true.

Sandy and John J. Jul 29, 2009, 2:49pm EDT

What have we learned? Sadly, I suspect little.. Learning is first and foremost a personal choice.. Unfortunantly, most choose to learn what they already believe to be true.....

Shirley U Understand Me S. Jul 29, 2009, 2:59pm EDT

I think that some of us have learned that others don't want to see that things are not always what they first think. Conclusions are like marriage. Easy to jump to/into, hard to manage once the jumping is over.