Arianna joined the roundtable on ABC News' "This Week", along with Paul Krugman, George Will, David Brooks and Donna Brazile, to discuss the politics of the week and the controversy surrounding President Obama's remarks regarding the arrest of Henry Louis "Skip" Gates.
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George Will is not interested in having a conversation about race. He's too afraid of TRUTH. He's afraid his ill- thinking toward blacks will expose his INFERIORITY. He is the kind who was taught (as a child) not to get too close to black people because their color would rub off on him.
Most children believe what they are told, Right? Now, on George's clean cut appearance:
His studios look and pristine attire is his costume to make up for his lack of knowing.
He looks smart, but in actuality- he is a stupid white man, who thinks like a BOY.
His mind is so 'time warped' he can't digest the fact, that, a Black man is actually President of the United States. "He don't understand that."
His ill-THNKING only allows him to view blacks as people who entertain in some way, form or fashion.
A few months back, I watched a special he did (when he was much younger) on the baseball player, Clemente. Clemente's outstanding ability to play baseball astounded him.
The problem with George Will and people like him, including the police officer who arrested Mr. Gates is their unwillingness to accept the fact that Black people's intelligence far exceeds anything they could ever imagine. Their misguided, primitive thinking causes them to act STUPIDLY.
Obama has tried to turn this unfortunate incident into one where good can come out of it. A lesser President would simply and quietly find a way to ensure the cop's career was destroyed just to show he was a tough guy, regardless of whether he felt the cop was in the right or not. For many in politics like Nixon and Rumsfelt it was important to them to be seen as "strong" regardless of the merits of the issue.
Having a President who is more interested in bringing people together and promoting understanding even if it carries some political risk is something that the citizens of the United States can be very proud of.
It amazes me that Republicans would support Police arresting someone in their own home for sounding off at a Police Officer, rightly or wrongly he was in his own home and I would have thought that in the USA that would have stood for something.
Listen to whether or not if the minority is going out to emprove themselves. I have been to court on several issues and have seen minorities who are set to go to college but get a harsher sentence because of their skin color.
Can we come back to this. Just because we have a black president, etc ... does not mean that the racial issues have been changed. I still see blacks and hispanics being pulled over more than whites. So George that is not a good reason.
Actually, George Will was asleep all year at his schoolhouse during 1957. Born in 1941, George Will was 17, when . . . "On September 24, t957, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army to Little Rock and federalized the entire 10,000 member Arkansas National Guard, taking it out of the hands of Governor Faubus. The 101st took positions immediately, and the nine (black) students successfully entered the school on the next day, Wednesday, September 25, 1957."
President Eisenhower used MORE THAN ONE STRONG WORD, --- he took STRONG ACTION.
He did not indelicately "butt in" into a "southern local issue"; --- he PLUNGED IN, HEAD FIRST, deploying the 101st, as Commander-In-Chief, and made it a national issue, and a supreme "teachable moment". So, you see, George Will, you really do not, and never did know President Eisenhower, the patriot.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=eisenhower+on+little+rock&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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Here's part of President Eisenhower's address to the nation on the crisis in Little Rock, AK:
"Good Evening, My Fellow Citizens: — For a few minutes this evening I want to speak to you about the serious situation that has arisen in Little Rock. To make this talk I have come to the President's office in the White House. I could have spoken from Rhode Island, where I have been staying recently, but I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to take and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the Federal Court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference.
In that city, under the leadership of demagogic extremists, disorderly mobs have deliberately prevented the carrying out of proper orders from a Federal Court. Local authorities have not eliminated that violent opposition and, under the law, I yesterday issued a Proclamation calling upon the mob to disperse.
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for what clearly was a gaffe is nonsense.
She has his number.