http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08…..2rich.html

In his police report, Sgt. James Crowley portrayed [Lucia Whalen, the white passer-by whose good deed of a 911 phone call did not go unpunished] as a racial profiler by saying she had told him that the two men at Gates’s door were black. She denied it, and the audio tape of her original call backs her up: she had told the dispatcher (only when asked) that one of the men “looked kind of Hispanic” and that she couldn’t see the other.

So, also interesting.

Here’s a piece from Hedges,discussing much of what we have been mulling here.

Enjoy!

Truthdig – Reports – So Much for the Promised LandAug 3, 2009 … 2009/08/03 – The most prominent faces of color, such as President Obama or Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., mask an insidious new racism …
http://www.truthdig.com/…/20090…..ew_racism/ – 4 hours ago – Similar

fatster (67) — sorry, no idea what the senior Blumenthal is doing. He’s definitely a treasure.

But none of that helps me understand where “Cookie’s” head’s at with regard to NOLA and Katrina. One of my friends is formerly from NOLA; his family came here to Michigan to work in the auto industry. We’ve talked a lot about NOLA, even the schism within his own African American culture because he, like much of the African American community in NOLA, is Catholic, while most northern African Americans are Protestants (generally Baptist or Methodist in my area). Is Doan so far on the other side of multiple cultural divides that she can no longer “see” other African Americans in need?

It’s the only thing which makes sense to me. Rather like the white guys in the uppermost echelons of corporate America who can’t see the lack of women in their ranks, in spite of the business school pipeline which has been more than half full of women for decades; when it’s pointed out to them that there aren’t any women, they blame the women even though they own the process. Doan’s now part of the ownership society and may now be so heavily invested in it that she can’t see anything else.

Maybe it’s the stunning lack of empathy which explains Doan’s position; she has that in common with much of her Republican cohort.

With Colby at CIA, selected by Cheney and Rumsfeld, I doubt the IOB could do what it was intended to do. I suspect they did the same crap with Dubya all the time when he wasn’t fully on board with their shenanigans.

Or if she even thought of them at all?

According to Wiki,she and her husband were donating hundreds of thousands of $$$$ to GW that same year.

She and William “Cold Cash”Jefferson,both from New Orleans, represent abuse of power BY a black person.

Well, I guess there must be some DUers visting the lake this weekend,wouldn’t you say?

Thanks for the link,fatster!