Justin Barrett: Boston’s Finest Racist
July 29, 2009 · Print This Article
There’s always one. Just when it looked that Gates-Gate was a clear example of Barack Obama being out of touch with modern law enforcement attitudes towards race, one douchebag has to come out of the woodwork and ruin the narrative.
The douchebag in this case is Officer Justin Barrett, 36, who “acted stupidly” by referring to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a “jungle monkey” in an e-mail which found its way to the Boston Globe, members of the National Guard and finally to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, who immediately demanded Barrett’s badge and gun.
“I just say that we want to rid our department of the cancer, and that is what we did — rid the department of the cancer. All the police officers I know don’t condone any of that,” Boston Mayor Tom Menino said. “An individual preaching hate has no place in our society.”
Barrett is assigned to District B-3. He was placed on administrative leave pending a termination hearing.
The officer has had a badge with the department for two years and received extensive training in racial profiling prevention while in the academy.
“People go through these courses and they pass them and you don’t know what they are going to do in a situation,” Menino said.
Barrett does have one possible defense. The Urban Dictionary has three entries for the term “jungle monkey”. The first two describe the term as “A racist word for a (black person or African-American)”. However, the last term is less derogatory.
Another term for a stud, player, etc. A man who swings from bush to bush with ease. Used most often in a mildly offensive manner; typically applied to men who pick up ugly women. This implies their fortune wasn’t due to their charm, but rather their hefty beer goggles or lack of self-respect/taste.
Without the full email to determine context, we may not know Barrett’s intent of the term, but it’s somewhat unlikely that he was referring to Gates’ tendency to tag mopeds.
Nice going douchebag. Now Obama and his race-baiting friends have a leg to stand on.
Here’s the full e-mail
http://media2.myfoxboston.com//photo/2009/07/29/email-barrett_20090729182951_0_0.JPG
I just read the link to his email. He is obviously a racist but isn’t anyone pointing out that he is also a huge sexist as well?
He’s a despicable, insane man!
Had we, as a society, a bit thicker skins, we would broadcast these lunacies far and wide, with an appropriate apology to the more sensitive among us, demonstrate a little Common Sense for our fellow man, and let the fringe element drown in the laughter and public ridicule generated by their own thinking or lack thereof. Along with the right to free speech comes the right to make a public fool of oneself; and like the naked, fools have little or no influence on society. We should “Never Underestimate the Power of Laughter.”
While I’m all for broadcasting the lunacy of douchebags like Justin Barrett for all to see, I’m somewhat less eager to let people like him have a badge and gun.
You know that was a well wrote email my hat is off to you officer Barrett keep up the good work. In my town you dont see many blacks (i hope i used the right word)
Go Springfield USA