Black man forces entry into own home, is arrested

[ailbhe]

This is about Obama's reaction to it.

The president also considered for a moment what would happen if he, like Gates, were unable to enter his home — the White House — and decided to force the door open. He concluded: “I’d get shot.” The audience of news reporters burst into laughter.

The audience of news reporters burst into laughter.

Comments

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

To be clear, "skin colour being the definition of criminality" is the bit that's only funny because it's true.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Obama wasn't joking about Gates, he was joking about the security differences between his old place and his new one.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

Maybe so, but he was also drawing a certain parallel between himself and Gates, and what culd that have been based on other than race?

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that wasn't the part people were laughing about. Obama was saying that, in Gate's position, he'd probably have been given the exact same treatment. And he wasn't making that part of a joke.