Gates Blamed Whites in 1990 2 Live Crew Case

After having someone comment that "if all I had on Gates was a 40 year old quote" maybe I should let it go, I decided to dig a little deeper. While I sort of agree with that comment, I did however take that as a challenge to find more recent quotes that show his racism and bigotry when it comes to whites.

If you did not know, Henry Louis Gates Jr was part of the 2 Live Crew Obscenity Trial in 1990, and he testified in court, on stand, that whites simply cannot understand black art. And before we go further, let me state, what this man referred to as "art" was a rap song glorifying the sexual assault/rape a girl.

At the 2 Live Crew trial, Gates testified that the rap album which describes gleefully the raping and beating of black women was on a par with the art found in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The editorial policies of HUMAN EVENTS appropriately prevent me from sharing with you the sordid lyrics from that album, but I can tell you that when I appeared on Phil Donohue’s national television program with 2 Live Crew, one of the guests uttered just one line of the lyrics and the broadcast was immediately terminated all along the Eastern seaboard where it was airing live. This was art? Apparently the liberal network we were on didn’t think so.

from this article: Arrested Harvard Prof Has 'Stupidly' Played the Race Card His Whole Life

While I understand that these types of events occur in movies all the time, cheering it on and rapping about it are two different things. Now let's put the sexual assault nonsense aside, that has already been decided by a court to be obscene. Let's get to Gates quotes about, why this song should have been allowed...

At the trial, Gates explained to Judge Gonzalez that whites simply cannot comprehend the beauty and worth of such black art. He swore that the concerns about selling this pornographic album to adults and kids alike stemmed from white racism.

This is quoted from someone at the trial, and you can clearly see the man has been pointing the finger at whites his entire life. Not only on his Yale Application.

To this man, a rap song about rape cannot be obscene and the only reason it is considered obscene is because of white racism? Give me a break!

This guy is a career race profiteer, and he has made his entire living trying to claim that whites are racist and use that to his advantage, even in a court room! ABSURD!

You maybe had to be there at the trial to believe what you were hearing -- or maybe not. Judge Gonzalez found the race-centric testimony of Professor Gates to be utterly unbelievable and absurd, and he indicated just that in his 62-page opinion.

Even the Judge found his testimony to be ridiculous.

After the verdict, the NAACP’s Dr. Benjamin Hooks weighed in on the controversy and rebutted with one sentence everything Professor Gates has built a career upon: “2 Live Crew apparently doesn’t understand that celebrating the raping of black women is not entertainment, and it is not art.” The vast majority of the phone calls and letters I got thanking me for my efforts in getting this album declared obscene were from African American parents, and one call I shall never forget was from a teenaged black girl whose friend was raped by a gang who played the album on their boom box during the rape.

Blaming white people for some rap song about rape being obscene via race baiting? Henry Gates Jr has long been up to this game and he learned it long ago.

So, as you behold the unfolding of this controversy that now has trapped the White House, and you hear Professor Gates’ and his surrogates’ charges that white racism is why he was arrested, take this word of advice from someone who saw this academic weirdo close up: Consider the source.

All he need do is point the finger at whites and scream "racism!" to get his way, and he tried it on a cop and it back fired.