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Gates Crowley Beer Summit! Part Deux

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 11.17.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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

Zondra Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zondra Hughes

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

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

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Arthur Delaney

Disorderly Conduct: Conversation About Gates Arrest Precedes Arrest

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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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Can Prejudice Be Justified?

Etan Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Gatesgate: They've All Got It Wrong.

Lionel | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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My "Teachable Moments" with the Cambridge Police

Billy Kimball | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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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Officer Crowley

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Danziger

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A Teachable Moment: Pride and Prejudice

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 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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A Teachable Moment

Paula B. Mays | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Gatesgate: A lesson plan

Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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White Men Can't Judge

Keith Boykin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Keith Boykin

The most disturbing aspect of the news coverage about Henry Louis Gates' arrest has been the running commentary by white men about appropriate decorum for black men.

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The Big Stupid in Cambridge

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Kall

Professor Gates and Officer Crowley were both wrong. Both over-reacted and took unnecessary offense. They both need to show some contrition.

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