Professor Gates, Harvard's Pride

[Pico and ME]

Arresting the man was a mistake. I dont like the thought that I could have my liberty so easily taken away from me.

[Cloud]

It's common sense and a life-lesson not to mouth off to cops! Duh.

Unless it's really essential, which I don't think this was.

[Shawnee123]

Seriously. The trouble I've avoided just by being NICE?! Priceless. Yet, no cost to me.

Plus I show due respect unless I really have a reason to do otherwise.

Asshats do the opposite.

[Shawnee123]

I've broken into every place I've lived, at one time or another. I'm forgetful.

[classicman]

They were probably both a little wrong. Police once upon a scene need to be in charge to maintain order - period. Gates acted like an ass and got treated accordingly. Race was/is inconsequential except to those who want to see it. Watch COPS or any of those shows - People of all races act like this and get treated the same way - no matter who/what they are.

[glatt]

Cops need to be in charge, until the situation is resolved. Once it's resolved, there is no need to be in charge any more. Once the guy proved it was his house, the situation was over. The cop should leave then.

[TheMercenary]

No evidence of racism.

[joelnwil]

The person who made the original 911 call did not identify the people who broke into the house by race - she could not tell from wherever she was. Certainly not a case of racial profiling.

I live on a little street in the city that only has 5 houses on one side and the YMCA on the other side. In spite of a lot of traffic at the Y, 2 of the houses have been broken into during the day within the last 4 years. Just walked up and kicked in the door. I wish somebody had called on them. I feel safer because I have 3 large dogs who sound hungry whenever somebody comes to the door.

[TheMercenary]

Consider the man at the center of this scene, Here are a few items:

Since 1991, Gates has been teaching African American studies at Harvard, where he serves as the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. De Bois, an American civil rights activist, sociologist, historian and author, was an avowed communist and also a socialist sympathizer

Serving as director for the Harvard institute immortalizing Du Bois, Gates cultivated black radicals to his race studies department, most prominently bringing in Cornel West, a controversial adviser on Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March with close ties to socialist and black extremist groups. West is a declared personal friend of Farrakhan.

Gates also lured to Harvard socialist sympathizer Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist, as well as William Julius Wilson, who is close to the Democrat Socialists of America.

Gates authored two books with West, a long-time member and honorary chair of the Democrat Socialists of America. West served on the black advisory board of Obama's presidential campaign.

From a young age, West proclaimed he admired “the sincere black militancy of Malcolm X, the defiant rage of the Black Panther Party … and the livid black [liberation] theology of James Cone.”

Cone's theology spawned Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's controversial pastor for 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ. West was a strong defender of Wright when the pastor's extreme remarks became national news during last year's campaign season.

Gates himself is a strong supporter of affirmative action and a key member of the reparations movement for the descendants of African slaves. He joined an effort to bring a class action lawsuit for reparations and reportedly has been working privately to urge political and business leaders to keep the issue of slavery at the forefront of social-justice discussions and to support his campaign for reparations.

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[Shawnee123]

He likes me. He really likes me.

I've seen so much of it, in my career, and I can't stand people playing victim, especially when the victim shirt doesn't fit.

If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll cop to seeing tiny bits of conservatism in me. I know that you'll see that as me getting smarter; I see it as a bit of moderation on my part.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

. . . If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll cop to seeing tiny bits of conservatism in me. I know that you'll see that as me getting smarter; I see it as a bit of moderation on my part.

Smarter either way you look at it, seems to me.

It's also part of growing more mature.

[Happy Monkey]

The wagon call was after they called the Harvard cops, and the Harvard cops were there when they took Gates away, as they gave Gates' key to one of them to lock the door.

[xoxoxoBruce]

After they called the Harvard cops. It was still an investigation in progress when they asked if a wagon was coming. Dispatching the wagon simultaneously is probably SOP for a report of a multiple perp break in.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

After they called the Harvard cops.

That's what I said. And the Harvard cops were there when they carted him away.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

The wagon call was after they called the Harvard cops, and the Harvard cops were there when they took Gates away, as they gave Gates' key to one of them to lock the door.

Officer 2, not Crowley, called to see if the wagon was still coming, not calling for one, before the Harvard cops arrived.

I'd like to know just who made the 911 call, from the grassy knoll. The whole thing could have been orchestrated as publicity for Gates to push his reparations plan.