Henry Louis Gates Jr.
So a white woman reported "two black males" were breaking into a house. When the police arrived the person who owned the house, who was not tyring to break in refused to show the police identifacation.
Jelani Cobb, an author and professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, says it's troubling on many levels when "one of the most recognizable African-Americans in the country can be arrested in his own home and have to justify being in his own home."
1. It looked like someone was trying to break in: Gates had just returned from a trip to China when a police officer responded to a call about a potential break-in at his home that was phoned in by a white woman. It says "potential break-in. She was concerned and called the police. Excuse for being a citizen concerned about crime. Why did they have to mention that she was white. If this had been a black woman calling this wouldn't be an issue.
2. Dissrepect of an officer by an arogant racist: The officer asked Gates to "step out onto the porch and speak with me," the report says. "[Gates] replied, 'No, I will not.' He then demanded to know who I was. I told him that I was 'Sgt. Crowley from the Cambridge Police' and that I was 'investigating a report of a break in progress' at the residence. "While I was making this statement, Gates opened the front door and exclaimed, 'Why, because I'm a black man in America?' " The officer asked him to step out and speak with him. "[Gates] replied, 'No, I will not.' WOW, wikipedia claims this guy the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University. Maybe they don't teach tact, and manners at Harvard. All this man had to do was humble himself (God forbid) relize their had been a mistake, shown some ID and he could have gone on with his day, BUT NOOO! He had to get on his 1967 soap box and proclaim that he had a dream and racial profiling. Sorry we inturupted your afternoon tea, Porf.
3. Arrested for "loud and tumultuous behavior": Be clam and civilized and you wont have your mug shot on the internet, offending the senses of all your like ilk.
I'm from Harvard, I'm black, you can't aressted me!
Jelani Cobb, an author and professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, says it's troubling on many levels when "one of the most recognizable African-Americans in the country can be arrested in his own home and have to justify being in his own home."
1. It looked like someone was trying to break in: Gates had just returned from a trip to China when a police officer responded to a call about a potential break-in at his home that was phoned in by a white woman. It says "potential break-in. She was concerned and called the police. Excuse for being a citizen concerned about crime. Why did they have to mention that she was white. If this had been a black woman calling this wouldn't be an issue.
2. Dissrepect of an officer by an arogant racist: The officer asked Gates to "step out onto the porch and speak with me," the report says. "[Gates] replied, 'No, I will not.' He then demanded to know who I was. I told him that I was 'Sgt. Crowley from the Cambridge Police' and that I was 'investigating a report of a break in progress' at the residence. "While I was making this statement, Gates opened the front door and exclaimed, 'Why, because I'm a black man in America?' " The officer asked him to step out and speak with him. "[Gates] replied, 'No, I will not.' WOW, wikipedia claims this guy the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University. Maybe they don't teach tact, and manners at Harvard. All this man had to do was humble himself (God forbid) relize their had been a mistake, shown some ID and he could have gone on with his day, BUT NOOO! He had to get on his 1967 soap box and proclaim that he had a dream and racial profiling. Sorry we inturupted your afternoon tea, Porf.
3. Arrested for "loud and tumultuous behavior": Be clam and civilized and you wont have your mug shot on the internet, offending the senses of all your like ilk.
I'm from Harvard, I'm black, you can't aressted me!I think the black officer thinks diffrently.
Welcome to the real world Gates.
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