I on the other hand came from a Latin country, have the Hispanic features and darker skin, speak with an accent and never in my 47 years here felt discriminated, maybe it is because I never saw myself as a victim.

Let me replay things:

First, you defended Obama’s comments–because he is a human being, and therefore what he said was not foolish. Will you apply the same logic to me? I doubt you think that just because I’m a human being that my comments were ok, otherwise you wouldn’t have wrote so strongly against my words…why the special pleading?

What if I apply that logic to white people who *are* racist? Better yet, what if I apply that logic to Crowley? He’s a human being, yet you don’t think that excuses him from what he did. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Secondly, if I had a friend that acted as Gates did, I’d talk some sense into him…*that’s what friends do.* They most decidedly don’t stick up for their buddies just cuz. Plus, Obama is the president of the United States and therefore has higher ideals to live up to than merely protecting his buddies. What if the situation were reversed? That is, what if Gates was a white Republican, and the officer black? Would you be ok if a white Repub. buddy in power stuck by the guy?

Thirdly, you attack my character in a gross way. You need to address my arguments, not any supposed hate going on. I don’t have to defend my character against you or anyone…your accusation is laughable. It doesn’t even make sense–I hate b.c I didn’t receive my tenure from Syracuse? Just because I disagreed with black man, therefore I’m not black?

Fourthly, the one thing you got right in your comment is that yes, *I’m not black.* Did the blog title tip you off? Or was it my picture in the “about me” section that you never looked at?

But you know what? *It doesn’t matter what the color of my skin is.* Again, what matters is the argument I’m making….your comments were the racially tinged ones: “Please refrain from trying to justify any white person when it comes to us as a people.”

Before you respond back, think on two final things: 1) from that last comment, am I to infer that white people are *always* wrong when they contradict a black person? What the heck is that? 2) Switch roles for a minute….if any other person of any other race said that about people of your ethnicity (e.g “refrain from trying to justify any black person when it comes to us as a white people.”), I’m fairly sure you would cry foul. The double standard of your comment screams out.