The Professor The Cop And The President Summary

The article “The Professor, the Cop, and the President” by Jamelle Bouie is mainly about the effect of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates had on Obama’s actions toward racial issues in his term. Gates was arrested because it was believed that he was breaking into a home which turned out to be his own residence. This wasn't a major story until Obama gave a comment. Obama never took a valid side, he stated the obvious which was that he was not there at the time of the arrest so he doesn't know the story. He also spoke on the fact that police were arresting many African Americans and Latinos. This made whites feel as though Obama took sides against an office and they began to vote against Obama. The percentage of whites supporting him kept going

down after time. The article says that this is the reason in which Obama never spoke on racial issues until his second term when he spoke on Trayvon Martin. Because Obama never spoke out about racial issues, this helped fuel the racial separation in our country before Trump came.
Two make highlights of the article that stood out were the percentages of whites that began to stop supporting Obama due to what they believed to be him going against an officer and that it is believed that Obama is one of the issues that causes our country to be so separated.
I believed that this article gave some valid information and was able to give both sides of the story but I do not agree with it. It gave Obama too much blame for the issues in our country and the author spoke on Obama as if he was too scared to speak out about racial issues.
I do not believe that an Black person can govern properly and only focus on blacks. Most blacks complain because we feel that whites in office only focus on whites and do not try to help us. If we did that we would be doing the same thing that we complain about. Also, it would cause much more racial issues because whites would never allow that to take place.
Corey Booker would be able to be a successful candidate if he looked at some issues that are affecting out country as a whole and not just blacks at least during his campaign. Once he is actually in office, he could work on some of the issues for Blacks but he should still try to look at the issues everyone is facing not just blacks to be successful.