By GottaLaff
Once when I was a kid, the couple next door forgot the keys to their home and paid me a quarter to open their rear window and shimmy into their house (breaking and entering, we guess) and then open the door from the inside for them.
To think I could have been arrested by the police.
But I wasn't. I was a white kid from the suburbs and our neighbors were good white folk, so what's the legal issue of breaking into your own home.
Of course, just the other day, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. [...] was arrested in the liberal community of Cambridge, MA for being a BMIHH (Black Man in His Home).[...]
All of this would have passed out of the news cycle rather quickly (the Cambridge Police "dropped" the "charges" of "disorderly conduct," even though the arresting officer refused to apologize), except that Lynn Sweet, our hometown Chicago Sun-Times D.C. reporter asked the President about it at his Wednesday night news conference. [...]
For decades upon decades, we have heard the likes of the NRA say that a man's home is his castle and that he has a right to shoot an intruder.
Well, Henry Louis Gates Jr. was in his home when arrested.
So where does that leave the castle doctrine for a black man?
It leaves it in the trash can with the rest of his rights.
Kudos to President Obama for getting to the core of what still ails America and the psychotic (think Michele Bachmann and the "birthers") opposition to his administration.
Obama has been caught being BBWEP (Being Black While Being Elected President).
Much more here.
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