Obama’s post-racial America.

[ABC News] At the end of Wednesday night’s prime-time news conference that was intended to be chiefly about health care, Obama was asked about the incident [the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.], to which he responded: “I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that.”

But Obama went on to say, “I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”

Obama: I don’t have all the facts but those cops sure acted stupidly.

This is typical liberal knee-jerk racial reaction. So much our new post-racial country. Black or white, the cops reacted the same way they would towards any person acting belligerent. Don’t believe me, go try the same.

The police report said Gates, who was returning from a trip to China and found his front door jammed, at first refused to provide an ID and became unruly. He was charged with disorderly conduct but the charges were dropped this week.

Law enforcement sources told ABC News that the conversation between Gates and Crowley was transmitted over Crowley’s open police radio and Gates can be heard yelling.

“Mr. Gates was given plenty of opportunities to stop what he was doing. He didn’t. He acted very irrational. He controlled the outcome of that event,” Crowley told WBZ.

Crowley said Gates, the director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research and former host of the PBS show “African American Lives,” called him a “racist cop.”

“There was a lot of yelling, there was references to my mother,” he added, “something you wouldn’t expect from anybody that should be grateful that you were there investigating a report of a crime in progress, let alone a Harvard University professor.”

He controlled the outcome of the event. Yes he did, didn’t he.

Meanwhile, this evil racist cop tried to save the life of NBA superstar Reggie Lewis 15 years ago.