The Bigot Bomb Explodes Into a Tar Baby
25th July 2009
Had the whole scenario played out correctly, the Harvard professor would have:
- a wonderful, center-stage part as the offended Negro;
- an opportunity to get attention from The Choir (those credulous journalists who already have a prefabricated meme for White Racism — oops, a redundancy. Only Whitey can be racist);
- a chance to grab President Obama for a “Black Brothers United Against Whitey” photo op;
- more donations for his purported charity “Inkwells”;
- a good basis for a resentful/outraged documentary on race in America (with Gates as the star, naturally);
- a gathering of prominent black Personalities to talk about the eternal evil of whiteness in America;
- and so on — back to the first, second and third motives captured in a Mobius strip of Offended Negro, breathless attention from The Choir, and a tidy profit to be made off the guilty White suckahs.
It almost worked. In fact, his scheme looked real good before the bomb of reality went off in his hands.