The Professor Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks… Prof. Henry Gates and His Tax-Exempt Charity Improprieties
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 28, 2009
Prof. Henry Louis Gates... doth he protest too much?
Sometimes, that classic Shakespearean line from Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” fits a current, real-life scenario to a tee.
Like now, with Professor Henry Louis Gates.
It’s been bothering me this past week that Prof. Gates, an educated, respected man who has done very well for himself and has a prestigious position at Harvard University, would have been such a hot-headed racist ass to the Cambridge police.
OK, I don’t know the professor, and maybe he’s simply a hot-headed racist ass to everyone who isn’t black or is a police officer.
But that’s not the impression I’ve gotten from the people who have known him and have been interviewed (although, no one who witnessed what happened at the scene has jumped to Gates’ defense nor disputed the police report). Prof. Gates seems like he could be a pleasant man who, although he has really jumped the shark and blown this situation into the 1960’s racial-profiling hemisphere, should also be fairly reasonable.
So why isn’t he being reasonable? Why the continued anger and over-the-top publicity from the professor more than a week after the fact? Down deep, this just hasn’t rung true to me, reeking a bit of contrived, race-card, show-boat antics.
The professor doth protest too much, methinks. Was his racist outrage at Sgt. James Crowley disingenuous, a smokescreen, a diversion?
Dan Riehl at Riehl World View wondered about that, too. And may have dug deep enough to discover something much greater than he’d anticipated.
Admiration and props for the intense investigating of this matter, when no other news sources were reporting on it, Dan. This information poses new questions about Prof. Henry Louis Gates and his troubling, looking-a-lot-like-fraud tax-exempt charity, Inkwell Foundation.
Here’s a small portion of the lengthy investigative post. To access links to pertinent documents corroborating the information in the report, go to the RWV website to read the entire piece:
A Gatesgate At Henry Gates’ “Bogus” Charity?
Riehl World View
July 25, 2009Henry 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.
Acting on a tip and with an item at Instapundit in mind (much more at this link), I was curious when Joseph Culligan of Web of Deception emailed with a tip as to the home’s ownership. It seems Harvard does own the home in which Gates lives. But it’s also the address for his charity, see below.
…Harvard sent someone from the University maintenance department over to secure Gates’ house and/or fix the broken lock on his front door. How many people have an employer who’ll send maintenance staff over to fix up or watch over their house?
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In September of 2008, the Boston Globe did an item (see second short item in story linked here…) claiming Professor Gates’ charity was not in compliance with the law at that time, in essence suggesting it was phony…
Click here for much more information about Gates’ charity improprieties at Riehl World View >>
Click here for follow up story at Riehl World View >>
I’m guessing the mainstream media at CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN will be reporting on this alleged tax-evasion revelation any day now about the good professor *cough, dream on, cough* being sure to keep up with their journalistic-integrity and dirt-digging/smear-attacking reporting they did so well on Joe the Plumber (even his private child support and tax information was leaked) and Sarah Palin (don’t get me started on that).
Also from Riehl World View:
I posted this before on one of the other threads. Gates went to Trinity College in Dublin to take part in their DNA genealogical tracing. They say he and Crowley are related.
Harvard prof Gates is half-Irish, related to cop who arrested him
Related reading:
Boston Globe: Foundation to file amended ’07 IRS report
Confederate Yankee: Is Henry Gates A Crook?
Gary Graham, Big Hollywood: The Great Beer Summit of 2009
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: Arresting Black People is Racist, You Pigs!
RBO: It’s a small Obama world after all. The Gates-Sandler Connection
ProPublica: Foundation Run by Harvard’s Gates Is Revising Tax Return After Questions Raised
Joseph C. Phillips, Big Hollywood: Other Than That, Professor Gates, How Was Your Trip?
Neoavatara: Who Is Racially Profiling: Barack Obama, Prof. Gates or the Cambridge Police?
Stuck On Stupid: Henry Louis Gates Explains The One N*gger Syndrome (Video)
Michael McGruther, Big Hollywood: We’ve All Felt a Little ‘Profiled’
Cam Cannon, Big Hollywood: What About the ‘R-Word’?
Behind Blue Lines: Welcome to Post-Racial America
Gateway Pundit: Cambridge Police Captain: The Only Apology in Gates-Gate Should Come From Prof. Henry Gates to Sgt. Crowley’s Mother
Sister Toldjah: Why “Gatesgate” is a losing situation for Obama – and black youths (UPDATE: POLICE RELEASE TAPES)
GayPatriot: Obama Needs to Learn from Himself About Apologizing
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Beerestroika: Drinking to distraction
Orson Bean, Big Hollywood: A Beer is Fine But Forgiveness is Divine
Hip Hop Republican: GATES ARRESTING PERFORMANCE and Empathy, Conservatives and Health Care Reform
Ztower: Brewskies At The White House…Do You Need A Tie? UPDATE: No Tie Required…WH Says It’s Nothing Formal, Just About “Having A Beer.”
The Barton Bulletin: Henry Louis Gates 1996 Rant Against Whitey (video)
Gazzer’s Gabfest: Perhaps OJ could teach a class on self-defense…
Renovo Media: Professor Gates Says Yes to Beer With Sergeant Crowley
Zombie Contentions: Civil Rights, Then and Now and Mystery Solved!
Goodtimepolitics: Police officers across the country have a message for Obama
Wake Up Black America: A Distinguished Gentleman or Distinguished Fool?
Boston.com: Gates caller says she didn’t cite race – Woman laments media accounts
Andrew Breitbart, Big Hollywood: The President’s Accidental Gift on Race
Lloyd Marcus, American Thinker: Who Will President Obama Drum Up Hate Against Next?
Michelle Malkin: ‘Racial Harmony Through Beer’ initiative kicks off Thursday and Stuck on stupid(ly) and The anti-police bigotry of the Left and The “Don’t taze me, bro” moment of Henry Louis Gates
Verum Serum: CNN: Black Officers Back Up Sgt. Crowley
The Smoking Gun: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Police Report -”I’ll speak with your mama outside,” Harvard prof told Cambridge cops
Hot Air Green Room: We Need The Truth, Not Beer and Apologies
Andrew Breitbart, Big Hollywood: The President’s Accidental Gift on Race
Patterico’s Pontifications: The Officer Didn’t Stereotype Henry Louis Gates — Henry Louis Gates Stereotyped the Officer
Political Byline: Video: The Police Union Demands an Apology
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Beer Won’t Solve It: Obama’s Lack of Leadership & Mistakes in Not Apologizing for His Controversial Gates Comments (video) and Old Grudge: Could College Parking Tickets Be Obama’s Secret Reason for Slamming Cambridge Police? and Panel Talk: Pres. Obama’s Race-Charged Allegations without Reading Police Report & His Inappropriate Meddling in Prof. Gates’ Arrest (video) and Tempest Brewing: Police Association Head Wants Obama to Apologize for Remarks Against Arresting Officer of Prof. Gates (video) and Stop Already… Obama Defends His Biased Criticism of Cambridge Police Arresting Prof. Henry Gates and The Good & Bad: Sgt. Crowley Won’t Apologize to Gates (Good), Obama Still Making Stupid Remarks about Police (Bad), Pundits Smacking Obama for His Lameness (Good)
African Press International: Fighting for the Black man without having facts on the table: Obama hits at police for arresting black scholar
John Romano, Big Hollywood: The Barack and Joe Variety Show
The Sundries Shack: Upper-Class Gates and No-Class Ambinder
John Nolte, Big Hollywood: Spike Lee Slams America, Lays Off Hugo Chavez
Power Line: Because he’s a jerk in America?
VotingFemale Speaks!: Obama guilty of Race Baiting for Political Gain; Socialist “Victimology” Honed to a Razor Edge
Amy Holmes, Big Hollywood: Inside Harvard’s Gates
Hot Air: Maybe Gates should have stood on civil liberties rather than race and Must see: Cambridge cop says she won’t vote for Obama again after Gatesgate and Thad McCotter to introduce House resolution demanding Obama apologize to Crowley and Obama: The Gates clusterfark is a “teachable moment” or something and Video: Obama blames the media for making a big deal about Gates comment and How not to win support from police unions; Update: Obama retreats; Update: Bill Cosby “shocked” by Obama’s remarks and Nuance: Cop who arrested Gates is an expert on … racial profiling and Obama: On second thought, it’s totally okay for Congress not to pass ObamaCare by August
My Country Matters: Monti Says: The “Great Uniter” is nothing but a complete “Divider”!
Legal Insurrection: Race and Class In Harvard Square and Et Tu, Lynn Sweet?
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, My Personal Collection of Headlines: Obama remark on black scholar’s arrest angers cops
Gateway Pundit: President of International Brotherhood of Police Officers Slams Obama! …Update: Cop Considers Lawsuit Against Gates and Bill Cosby “Shocked” At Dear Leader’s Attack on Boston Police Officer
The B.S. Report: Obama: Cambridge Police Acted “Stupidly” In Arrest Of Gates
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: Before Calling Cambridge Police “Stupid” The President should have read the “Police Report” and Reviewed the Officer’s Background
Autographed Letter Signed: Conservative Night Cap: Still Stitching, Still Bitching
America’s Watchtower: Obama is Feeling the Heat For His Comment About the Cambridge Police
Rosita the Prole: Was the Harvard Professor Who’s Claiming Police Racism Trying to Get Arrested?
Stop The ACLU: Obama Attacks More Private Citizens During Prime Time Presser
Hick from the Sticks: “The stars are aligned …”
American Conservative Daily: Obama Almost Gets It Right on Gates’ Arrest
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To a cop this case was pretty simple and straight forward. He was arrested because he was disturbing the peace of the neighborhood and cops are “peace keepers” first and foremost. No race factor whatsoever other than what was the catalyst for the arrestee to become volatile. If I might say, I’ve been a cop for four decades and cops have moved so far beyond the race issue that it really doesn’t even apply any more. We’re waiting for the rest of America to catch up.