While the arrest of one of my favorite professors is quite troubling, rubbing salt in the country's old racial wounds, the whole thing reminds me of a woman who lives on our street. She watches over us from inside her home with binoculars. She calls the cops if anyone so much as pulls a leaf off a tree. (Okay, I'm exaggerating. But you get the idea.) The moral of the Gates story is "Mind your own f---in' business" and if some event or activity doesn't concern YOU, then don't be concerned. Even President Obama concedes police acted 'stupidly' in arresting Prof. Gates.Related Links:
Various Media Sources - "Police arrived at Gates’s Ware Street home near Harvard Square at 12:44 p.m. [THAT'S DAYLIGHT, NOONTIME, LUNCH HOUR!!!] to question him. Gates, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, had trouble unlocking his door after it became jammed.
The 58-year old Gates was booked for disorderly conduct after “exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,” according to a police report. Gates accused the investigating officer of being a racist and told him he had "no idea who he was messing with,'' the report said.
Friends of Gates said he was already in his home when police arrived. He showed his driver’s license and Harvard identification card, but was handcuffed and taken into police custody for several hours..." - Copied and saved in the nick of time! (Boston Globe Scrubs Henry Louis Gates Arrest Report From Website )
Dallas Morning News - Editorial: The arrest of Henry Louis Gates
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Arrest of black scholar stirs national debate
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