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Following Up on the Gates Affair
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a free man, but the furor over his arrest is not showing any signs of abating. While I believe the Cambridge police overstepped the bounds of good judgement when they arrested the scholar in his own home, I still find Gates’ new found awareness of racial profiling incredulous and [...]
Read moreGates: The Emotions of Racial Politics
Yesterday, news of the arrest of Harvard Professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. last Thursday hit the news and blog wires with a decidedly loud twang. Gates, arriving home from a trip to China to find his front door jammed, used his shoulder and the aid of his driver to force his way in. A [...]
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