Gates Crowley Beer Summit! Part Deux
Remember when Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat down for the major news ...
Remember when Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat down for the major news ...
Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
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?
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
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...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.02.2009 | Living
In truth, what maintains the walls between races, generations, genders and globally between nations is more "fearful aggression" than true hostility.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
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.
Martin Lewis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
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.
Zondra Hughes | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
This was a classic town vs. gown drama, a show-me-the-power move, and Gates slipped up.
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
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.
Jehmu Greene | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
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.
Warren Goldstein | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
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.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Obama was right in the real world (maybe not politically). Crowley certainly did act "stupidly." But Professor Gates acted stupidly as well.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
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...
Billy Kimball | Posted 08.28.2009 | Comedy
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.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
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?
Etan Thomas | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Do the isolated incidents in my past and what I have seen justify an overall prejudice toward all policemen?
Jeff Danziger | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
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Lionel | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
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.
Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Gates' and Crowley's confrontation was a clash of egos in which pride and prejudice -- on both sides -- came into play.
Lanny Davis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
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.
Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
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.
Paula B. Mays | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
Sergeant Crowley and Professor Gate spoke different languages in that moment in time in the house of Dr. Gates.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."
Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
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.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
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.
Martin Lewis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
"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."
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics