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Gates Crowley Beer Summit! Part Deux

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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Remember when Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat down for the major news ...

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"This Comment Has Been Removed"

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Barney Frank, Gun Control, Professor Gates, Obama, White Male Privilege, Cambridge Police, Teddy Kennedy, Dr. Tiller, Socrates, Sai Baba, Sexism, Homophobia, Sotomayor, Racism, Drug War, Death Penalty, Health Care, Censorship, Nazi-Baiter, Politics News
Norm Stamper

How long will it be before one of those pistol-packing town-hallers, driven to the brink by publicly aired hate-talk, pulls his gun, and then its trigger?

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Arthur Delaney

Disorderly Conduct: Man Arrested After Criticizing Police May Sue

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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The lawyer arrested by D.C. police last weekend for disorderly conduct after chanting "I hate police" plans to fight the charge in court and is puttin...

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Gates, Crowley, Biden and Obama: A Teachable Moment?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.02.2009 | Living

Read More: James Crowley, White House Rose Garden, Mark Goulston, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Cambridge Police, Henry Louis Gates, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

In truth, what maintains the walls between races, generations, genders and globally between nations is more "fearful aggression" than true hostility.

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Gates and Crowley Share a White House Beer - President Obama Declares an End to Racism

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jr, Joe Biden, President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Sgt. James Crowley, Cambridge Police, Rodney King, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

With the four men seated at a round table with their frosty mugs of beers, and with Biden and Obama with uprolled sleeves, the picture could not have looked more fake and insincere.

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A Beer For The Guys -- A Leech For The 911 Caller

Martin Lewis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

While Crowley gets the 15 minutes of White House fame -- and a free beer -- that he inveigled out of the President -- perhaps a decent lawyer will come forward and offer to represent Lucia Whalen.

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The Gates Arrest: Racism? Not so much. Classism? You betcha!

Zondra Hughes | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Skip Gates, James Crowley, Classism, Prejudice, Henry Louis Gates, Post-Racial, Cambridge Police, Politics News
Zondra Hughes

This was a classic town vs. gown drama, a show-me-the-power move, and Gates slipped up.

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Bud Lights & Civil Rights Tonight at the White House: What Will America Learn

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

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Sophia A. Nelson

I hope that the president, Crowley and Gates don't just share a "beer" and sweep this whole mess under the carpet. I hope they start a dialogue that gets them talking about how our unconscious prejudices cloud our day to day judgments.

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Everything Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley Needed to Know, I Learned at a Montessori School

Jehmu Greene | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, President Obama, Cambridge Police, Jim Crowley, Racism, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Conflict Resolution, Politics News
Jehmu Greene

Both Sergeant Crowley and Professor Gates had more than enough intellectual resources to identify alternatives in a heated confrontation -- both men chose not to use them.

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Why This White Guy Was Not Arrested While Trying to Break Into a House Not His Own

Warren Goldstein | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama Race, Gates Arrest, Obama Gates, Cambridge Police, Sgt. James Crowley, Politics News
Warren Goldstein

My hope is that white folks will finally get what our African-American brothers and sisters have been trying to get through our thick skulls for about half a century now: It's different being black.

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Jim Crowley: Racist or Thuggish Bully?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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Blake Fleetwood

Obama was right in the real world (maybe not politically). Crowley certainly did act "stupidly." But Professor Gates acted stupidly as well.

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Arthur Delaney

Disorderly Conduct: Conversation About Gates Arrest Precedes Arrest

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police, Race, Politics News

A lawyer who moments earlier had been complaining to friends about police overreaction in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., got a...

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My "Teachable Moments" with the Cambridge Police

Billy Kimball | Posted 08.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, Cambridge Police, Comedy News
Billy Kimball

The recent uproar about the arrest of the distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates called to mind my own experiences with the Cambridge police during my years in college, several decades ago.

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Health Care vs. White House Beer? Are You Kidding Me?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Beer, Health Care Reform, Harvard University, Barack Obama, Cambridge Police, UnitedHealth Group, Lewin Group, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Is this former lifelong Republican, now an avid Obama supporter, the only American with a sense of fury directed against the divided Democrats when it comes to reforming health care?

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Can Prejudice Be Justified?

Etan Thomas | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Etan Thomas

Do the isolated incidents in my past and what I have seen justify an overall prejudice toward all policemen?

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Officer Crowley

Jeff Danziger | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Danziger

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Gatesgate: They've All Got It Wrong.

Lionel | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crowley, Criminal Law, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, Cambridge Police, Politics News
Lionel

The case has forced Americans to look at the issue of policing from the perspectives of African-Americans and cops themselves. If we're smart we'll learn from this.

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A Teachable Moment: Pride and Prejudice

Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Denise Dennis

Gates' and Crowley's confrontation was a clash of egos in which pride and prejudice -- on both sides -- came into play.

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Obama: His Own Best Crisis Manager

Lanny Davis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Lanny Davis

The president followed the classic, three-part standard of crisis management: acknowledge your mistake, do it as quickly as possible and, ideally, do it yourself and not through a surrogate.

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Post Racial America? You Are Right!

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Coretta Scott King, Harvard-Professor-Gates-Arrest, Cambridge Police, Obama Skip Gates, Racial Disparities, Racial Discrimination, Racial Profiling, Politics News
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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A Teachable Moment

Paula B. Mays | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Racism, Obama, Cambridge Police, Sgt. James Crowley, Politics News
Paula B. Mays

Sergeant Crowley and Professor Gate spoke different languages in that moment in time in the house of Dr. Gates.

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The Unteachable Lesson: Can We Learn From Gates and Crowley?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

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Yvonne R. Davis

Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."

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Gatesgate: A lesson plan

Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

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Peter Y. Sussman

These lessons are not a comprehensive list and they are not rules, but the kind of awareness they exemplify might have defused the tense Gates encounter.

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Drinking Past Racial Profiling: Obama and the Gates Arrest

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

As far as that pint of beer goes, I worry that it may take many shared kegs before we finally come together as a nation.

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Eating Jim Crow(ley): What the Cop Forgot to Say to Professor Gates

Martin Lewis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

"Now that I understand that you are the home-owner -- and you were simply having trouble getting into your own home -- will you please accept my profuse apologies for my intrusion."

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