charles blow

Charles Blow is a black left-wing columnist for the New York Times.

His son is a third-year student at Yale.

A week ago, his son left the Yale library, and was stopped by a Yale police officer who was searching the grounds for a robbery suspect. Blow’s son seemed to fit the description. The officer drew his gun and told him to get down on the ground. After questioning, and checking his school ID, he was let go.

Blow then wrote a racially-charged story about the incident.

And he took to Twitter:

One detail of the story seems to have been omitted, though:

The Yale police officer who stopped his son is also black. As is the Yale Chief of Police.

Via Breitbart — Blow Doubles Down on Racism Charge: Doesn’t Matter Cop Was Black

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday’s “AC360,” New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow refused to back off allegations of racism involved in his son’s arrest at gunpoint by Yale campus police earlier this week….

COOPER: Does the fact that the police officer involved was African-American? does that change at the equation in your mind in any way?

BLOW: It doesn’t for me,” the columnist replied, “because when we have the conversations with our kids, we don’t say, “Well, if you run into a white police officer, behave like this and this and this, and if you run into a black police officer, you don’t have to worry about that — do whatever you want to do, jam your hands into your pockets, jump around and talk back.” We talk about the police in general….

COOPER: Do you believe race played a role, even though the officer was African-American, do you believe race played a role in what happened to your son because there are some — you have come under criticism from some conservative sites. Some have even called it a race hoax because in your original article, you didn’t mention that the officer was African-American.

BLOW: Right. Because in my article — I’ve been writing about this for probably years now and I have almost stopped altogether mentioning race of officers, period….

As the NY Post notes:

At the New York Times, it seems, some key facts are just not fit to print when they don’t fit the liberal narrative….

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  1. Kitten says:

    Charles is a hypocritical leftist tool. While his son was undoubtedly frightened by a gun pointed at him initially, I’m sure his fears were immediately allayed when he was released, because he did nothing wrong. He followed his Dad’s advice and all was well. For Blow to then use the incident as a false pretense to drive his own prejudice against cops is petty and small. Hopefully his son will “see” him for what he is and choose to go in another direction.

  2. Alain41 says:

    In possibly related news, the NY Times just discontinued its beat on race and ethnicity. The NYT Public Editor (ombudsman) asked the NYT first Black Executive Editor and others about that considering Ferguson et al. Response is NYT will cover race in its existing beats. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/in-a-time-of-racial-turmoil-why-change-course-on-covering-race/?_r=0

    Cynical view would be that NYT knows that there will be many more race stories ahead and getting rid of the beat will help assure that questions aren’t raised about Sharpton, Obama, its own writers, etc.

  3. hbmuzik says:

    When I was a college freshman, 4 other white guys and I were pulled over on the highway because we fit the description of a group of bank robbers who had escaped the scene of the crime in a car similar to ours. We were freaked out but after explaining that we were students at a Christian college, and had been nowhere near the incident, the police let us go. We were profiled. We were given the third degree. But we were respectful and were “released” without incident. It’s never fun to be under the microscope, but that’s why they call it law enFORCEment.

  4. Maynard says:

    Hey, if the kid resembled the robber, then questions will be asked. That’s what happens when you look like someone else. Sometimes it works to your favor. For example, Dennis Rodman got VIP treatment in North Korea because Kim Jong Un thought he was Obama.

  5. Cathode Rays says:

    “One detail of the story seems to have been omitted, though:
    The Yale police officer who stopped his son is also black. As is the Yale Chief of Police.
    Via Breitbart — Blow Doubles Down on Racism Charge: Doesn’t Matter Cop Was Black”

    Psychopath.

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