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.
Ahmed Rehab | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
While it is easy to come to the defense of a black man who happens to be a world class scholar, how many less fortunate blacks get arrested on even more flimsy grounds with no public outcry?
Brandon M. Terry | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Gates was charged with "disorderly conduct." Blacks easily recognize this offense as the failure of a black to show proper deference to a white police officer.
Martha St Jean | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
One commentator said, " I am tired of the race card being played every time a black person is arrested/questioned or anything else that happens with the police."
AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 08.21.2009 | Home
BOSTON — Prosecutors dropped a disorderly conduct charge Tuesday against prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who was arrested after f...
AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
BOSTON — Police responding to a call about "two black males" breaking into a home near Harvard University ended up arresting the man who lives t...
Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics