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Racial Profiling

Mark Another Coup for David Axelrod

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Obama Centrist, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

Why do economic and racial segregation still dog us in 2009 -- the forty-fifth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act -- and what, if anything, can be done?

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The Re-Education of Prof. Henry Louis Diallo-Bell-Edwards Gates

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Racial Profiling, Race Relations, President Obama, Media News
Barry Michael Cooper

Countless black and Latino men need Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to tutor all of the U.S., in what President Barack Obama calls, this teachable moment .

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Open Memo to President Barack Obama

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Gates Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Obama Race, Henry Louis Gates Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Politics News
Clarence B. Jones

A Presidential National Commission of Race and Reconciliation is something you should now seriously consider, President Obama. If not you, who? If not now, when?

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So What Do the Gates Calls Show?

Claudia Ricci | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Obama and Gates, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Claudia Ricci

If some cop comes to your door and tells you to leave your home would you be upset? Would you perhaps get a little unruly?

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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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Obama's Gates Trainwreck

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Backlash, Henry Louis Gates, President Obama, Harvard, sgt.james Crawley, Race, Health Care, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama spoke from the heart and said what needed to be said about the thorny issue of racial profiling. No apology needed for that. He just said it in the wrong case and at the wrong time.

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UPDATE: Gates, Crowley To Join Obama For Beers On Thursday

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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UPDATE: There are several reports that the beer diplomacy between President Obama, Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

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Why America Needs the Rage of the Privileged Black Class

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Criminal Justice System, Police, Obama Crowley Gates, Obama-Henry-Louis-Gates, Racial Profiling, Obama Race, Politics News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Given the opportunity for improved police-community relations, it's actually a good thing that Sgt. Crowley didn't know who he was "messing" with.

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Race and Reason

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Crowley, Racism, Gates Arrest, Skip Gates, Race, Police, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

When a police officer approaches a home where a burglary may be in progress, it is both rational and racist for him to think differently about the situation depending on whether the suspects are black or white.

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Obama Was Right About the Gates Arrest

Adam Winkler | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Race, President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, James Crowley, Disorderly Conduct, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Politics News
Adam Winkler

One thing is clear: Gates did not violate any law. Under Massachusetts law, which the police officer was supposedly enforcing, yelling at a police officer is not illegal.

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A Defining Moment in the History of Civil Rights

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement, Harvard University, Reggie Lewis, Sgt. James Crowley, President Barack Obama, The Boston Globe, Harvard Police, Cambridge Massachusetts, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, The White House, Politics News
Gary S. Chafetz

Who are the beneficiaries of what appears to be the teapot tempest over the recent arrest of an African-American man in The People's Republic of Cambr...

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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

Read More: Gates, Cambridge, Henry Louis Gates, Police, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Racial Profiling, Cambridge Police, Politics News
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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The Cambridge Kerfuffle Was Town vs. Gown, not Black vs. White

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard, Cambridge, Henry Gates, Racism, Obama, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Racial Profiling, James Crowley, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Rather than black vs. white in New England, this may have been the latest chapter of "town vs. gown" carried over from Old England.

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Being Black on a Sunny Day

Carl Jeffers | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Gates Arrest, Officer Crowley, Franklin Ajaye, Obama Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Racial Profiling, Obama Race, Politics News
Carl Jeffers

The best news about the Professor Gates arrest in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its aftermath is the very fact that it is news -- big news.

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

Martin Lewis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Collar Resentment of Ivy League, Cambridge Police, President Obama, Class Resentment, Harvard, Reflexive Defensive Statements, Institutional Police Rudeness, Racial Profiling, Authority Figure Hubris, Reflexive Suspicion, Jim Crow, Henry Gates Arrested, Professors, James Crowley, Henry Gates, Ingrained Arrogance, Politics News
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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Free Skip Gates

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Michael Wolff

Crowley keeps complaining about Gates's "tone." It echoes teachers trying to assert authority over truculent children, and mothers and fathers with wise-guy kids at the dinner table.

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The Gates/Crowley Rorschach Test

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Police, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Race, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Michael J. O'Neil

Was this an instance of racial profiling? Did Gates overreact to a reasonable police request? The truth is that we simply do not have enough information to know what really happened in this case.

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White Cop, Black Professor, Bi-Racial President: An Explosive Media Combination

Peter Daou | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama, Race, Matt Lauer, Gates, Racial Profiling, Health Care Reform, Media, Henry Louis Gates, Health Care, Media News
Peter Daou

When Obama weighed in, the Gates story went from newsworthy to explosive. Is this another instance of the media's lopsided priorities, where a debate over health care is overshadowed by a minor police incident?

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Community-Based Justice in New York

Cyrus Vance | Posted 08.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, Police Misconduct, New York News
Cyrus Vance

Radical racial disparity in "Stop and Frisk" is undeniable. In an attempt to make our city safer, these practices actually make it more dangerous.

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No Apology Needed, President Obama, for Speaking Out on Gates

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard University, Racial Profiling, Cambridge Police, President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Obama-Henry-Louis-Gates, Obama Gates, Obama Race, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It took just the right touch of passion and hint of anger that Obama brought to the table in the Gates' affair to get the tongues wagging about race and policing.

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Gates in Cuffs: Scenes from 'Post-Racial' America

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: James Crowley, Cambridge Police, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Race Relations, Obama News Conference, Living News
Rick Horowitz

You just know that, if all the players -- the neighbors, the "intruders," the cops -- had been white, or if they'd all been black, the whole story would have played out differently.

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Gates Forgot to Pay His Skin Tax

Lowell Thompson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Skin, Gates, Tax, Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, Arrested, Profiling, Blacktax, Politics News
Lowell Thompson

Even my most progressive white friends play down the differences in our American experience because of skin color.

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Racism or Not, Cambridge Police Owes Professor Gates an Apology

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black, Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge, African-Americans, Post-Racial, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Ahmed Rehab

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?

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