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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested At Home
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Mon, 07/20/2009 - 13:50
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Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is accusing a Massachusetts police department of racism after being arrested while trying to get into his locked home near the Harvard University campus. Police say they were called to the home Thursday after a woman reported seeing a man trying to pry open the front door. They say they ordered Gates to identify himself and Gates refused.
According to a police report, Gates then called the officer a racist and said, "This is what happens to black men in America." Gates is the director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. (The Huffington Post)
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Many of us are not believing Henry Louis Gates talk about threatening phone calls, and see that as a call for sympathy. But he's not going to get much from this minister-writer, who publish several newsletters monthly. And my reason is because he and President Obama have turned their backs on too many black men all across the nation that face this kind of mistreatment from police on a daily basis. And Gates had said that he was going to take up this issue on behalf of others, but is now backing down. Likewise, Obama is beginning to show signs of this similar type of back-peddling, from time to time. Starting with his rejection of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who was a sort of substitute father of his. And many of my followers and associates are labeling Gates as "Uncle Henry." With myself in accord. He and Obama seem to be more concerned with pleasing the Cambridge community, rather than standing up for unfair treatment of blacks in black communities. And the public will be hearing much more concerning this.