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GOP Sees Opportunity With White Voters After Gates Saga

Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two weeks after President Obama said that Cambridge, Mass., police had "acted stupidly" by arresting Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates for ar...

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The Case of Henry Gates

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hermene Hartman

What happened to Gates is a daily occurrence in American ghettos. Police officers sometimes unfairly stop black men while driving their cars. It's called a "DWB" incident: driving while black. .

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Post Racial America? You Are Right!

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rev. Bekeh Utietiang

We still have a long way to go in healing the divisions that exists between us and in "perfecting our union." It would be stupid to delude ourselves that we are in a post-racial America.

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Jason Linkins

Mika Brzezinski Battles "Morning Joe" Guests Over Race Relations (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Henry Louis Gates is the new Gate, thanks to President Obama, who, by using the word "stupidly" in context with the arrest of Gates in his own Cambrid...

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Gates Says What A Lot of Us Are Thinking: You Prove It!

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Ridley

We're sick and tired of having to prove things to the self-righteous reactionary fringe, which looks at life as one, big racial profiling traffic stop: Step out of the car Mr. President and show me your birth certificate.

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James Crowley, Policeman Who Arrested Gates, Won't Apologize

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 05.25.2011

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NATICK, Mass. — A white police sergeant accused of racism after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home insisted We...

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Obama On Skip Gates Arrest: Police Acted "Stupidly"

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Near the conclusion of his press conference on Wednesday, President Obama was asked to respond to the controversial arrest of distinguished Harvard Pr...

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