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Showing posts with label Henry Gates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Gates. Show all posts
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Travails Of A Harvard Asshole
Via Memeorandum
When I first learned of the arrest of my colleague Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates after he stood up to the fascist jackboots of a declasse, ill-educated Cambridge police officer, I was of course angered -- but scarcely shocked. L'Affaire Gates simply aired, in public, the dirty 100-thread-count table linen of an American culture where Harvard faculty assholes still face a daily struggle against profiling, abuse, and insolence.
It will come as no surprise that Skip's arrest was the talk of the Douchebag Room at the Harvard Faculty Club last Friday. I and a group of colleagues had assembled for our weekly lunch; I opted for their competently-prepared Ahi Tuna Tartare and an amusing glass of '05 Hospices de Beaune Premier Cru Cuvee Cyrot-Chaudron. I had noticed that the Frantz Fanon Memorial Booth -- Skip's long-reserved lunch spot -- was uncharacteristically empty, and asked our waiter Sergio for an explanation.
Oh my Gawd, he captures the essence of the struggle with such aplomb.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Birds Of A Feather, Part Two
Via Memeorandum
Yesterday I wrote about President Obama’s long standing affection for surrounding himself with shady characters. It appears there is a new entry in the rogue’s gallery of Obama’s long standing friends: Henry Louise “Skip” Gates, Jr. Dan Riehl:
A Gatesgate At Henry Gates' "Bogus" Charity?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr controls a tax-exempt, non-profit charity, Inkwell Foundation, Inc, that managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support in one year, yet only gave out $27,500 in grants, the bulk of which went to Gates' employees and Harvard colleagues. Also, as recently as September 2008, the Boston Globe reported that Gates' charity was not in compliance with the law for failing to register the proper paperwork, despite the charity existing since 2005. The charge at the time was that it was "bogus," as you'll see below. In fact, the state Attorney General's office told the Globe the charity was likely either inactive, or dissolved. Yet, documents below show the charity is healthy, wealthy and active.
Is it possible that Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was acting strange when law enforcement showed up at his door because he didn't want the story below to come out? It may take a tax lawyer to answer that question, but based on this research, it can't be ruled out. We know the press has questioned Gates about the charity in the past and gotten no response.
Hmm, a tax-exempt, non-profit charity setup for the sole financial benefit of the man who controls it? Is that legal?
The last thing I would do is have a beer with a man who called me a racist or with someone who said I had behaved stupidly. In fact, I would be insulted by the mere suggestion which smacks of a man giving his wife flowers thinking it makes up for his spending the afternoon in a hotel room with a hooker. Sgt. Crowley as every right to tell Obama to stick his invite where the sun don’t shine. Barring that, Crowley could use the opportunity to ask the President why, as someone who favors using taxation to re-distribute wealth, he surrounds himself with tax cheats.
Others blogging this story:
The Other McCain
No Sheeples Here
Big Hollywood
Pajamas Media
The Corner
The Daley Gator
Yesterday I wrote about President Obama’s long standing affection for surrounding himself with shady characters. It appears there is a new entry in the rogue’s gallery of Obama’s long standing friends: Henry Louise “Skip” Gates, Jr. Dan Riehl:
A Gatesgate At Henry Gates' "Bogus" Charity?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr controls a tax-exempt, non-profit charity, Inkwell Foundation, Inc, that managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support in one year, yet only gave out $27,500 in grants, the bulk of which went to Gates' employees and Harvard colleagues. Also, as recently as September 2008, the Boston Globe reported that Gates' charity was not in compliance with the law for failing to register the proper paperwork, despite the charity existing since 2005. The charge at the time was that it was "bogus," as you'll see below. In fact, the state Attorney General's office told the Globe the charity was likely either inactive, or dissolved. Yet, documents below show the charity is healthy, wealthy and active.
Is it possible that Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was acting strange when law enforcement showed up at his door because he didn't want the story below to come out? It may take a tax lawyer to answer that question, but based on this research, it can't be ruled out. We know the press has questioned Gates about the charity in the past and gotten no response.
Hmm, a tax-exempt, non-profit charity setup for the sole financial benefit of the man who controls it? Is that legal?
The last thing I would do is have a beer with a man who called me a racist or with someone who said I had behaved stupidly. In fact, I would be insulted by the mere suggestion which smacks of a man giving his wife flowers thinking it makes up for his spending the afternoon in a hotel room with a hooker. Sgt. Crowley as every right to tell Obama to stick his invite where the sun don’t shine. Barring that, Crowley could use the opportunity to ask the President why, as someone who favors using taxation to re-distribute wealth, he surrounds himself with tax cheats.
Others blogging this story:
The Other McCain
No Sheeples Here
Big Hollywood
Pajamas Media
The Corner
The Daley Gator
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