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This was a catch 22 for the cop, if the house was really getting broken into and he didn't ask the Prof to come out the prof would have said the cop didn't want to investigate because he was black and didn't care if his home was under a home invasion.
This guy teaches at Harvard? arrogant asshole is what he is, plus he was the racist here not the cop.
Those Harvard students, nerd and geeky types are hot. Met a couple of guys from Harvard yum yum!
for the heinous crime of being "uppity" a term used mostly by descendants of former southern plantation owners.
Nobody knew who Henry Louis Gates Jr was before now? are u serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel
Gates has been the recipient of nearly 50 honorary degrees and numerous academic and social action awards. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1981 and was listed in Time among its “25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997. On October 23, 2006, Gates was appointed the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard University. In January 2008, he co-founded The Root, a website dedicated to African-American perspectives published by The Washington Post Company. Gates currently chairs the Fletcher Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is on the boards of many notable institutions including the New York Public Library, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, HEAF (the Harlem Educational Activities Fund), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, located in Stanford, California.[2]
In 2002 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Gates for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.[9] Gates' lecture was entitled "Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley"[10] and was the basis for his book The Trials of Phillis Wheatley.[11]
In 2006, Gates was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution after he traced his lineage back to John Redman, a Free Negro who fought in the Revolutionary War.[12]
The popular Harvard-area burger restaurant, Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage, sells a Professor Skip Gates burger topped with pineapple and teriyaki sauce.
All this and a man cant tell the police everything is ok, and they just leave?
It was his frigging house and he identified himself by name and then showed them his Harvard ID but the cops didn't buy the explanation. So the professor justifiably got angry because it was fuckin racist. And then the cops arrested him. That's fucked up. We've heard of stops and arrests for being "Black while driving" and "Black while shopping". We got a new one, "Black while being at home". Nobody in this country ought to put up with this shit.
LOL. Did you even read the article? :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobzz
lol, he had too cause thats the same thing the article said, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by 2009AD
According to the linked article, "...Gates was arrested after he yelled at the investigating officer repeatedly inside the residence then followed the officer outside, where Gates continued to upbraid him." Also according the article, "He was booked for disorderly conduct..."
I may be wrong but generally disorderly conduct requires a public context; e.g. loitering, public intoxication, sun bathing nude in view of your neighbors etc. Had Gates not followed the officer outside to continue his tirade, there would've been nothing to hang on him.
Why Gates was upset with the officer to begin with is unclear to me. The officer may have said or done something inappropriate or something at least perceived by Gates as inappropriate. Good policemen are skilled at diffusing such situations. This one either wasn't, or didn't care to. Policemen are used to demanding and getting respect and Gates wasn't giving any. I can image some officers in this situation would be itching for a chance to arrest this uppity black professor. To create such an opportunity all the officer would have to do is continue the argument while luring Gates to step outside. That was Gates' mistake, he should [have] said good riddance at the door.
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Originally Posted by 2009AD
Having seen Gates give a lecture at my alma mater, I can say that he's pretty freaking awesome. He's done a lot for academia and African-American studies throughout his career. Personally, he could have ass-raped the officer and poured sugar in the gas tank and I still think he should have not been arrested. He is just that awesome.
That being said, he hardly seems like the man who would have gotten into the predicament it seems he did. Although that doesn't make it an impossibility, I doubt the circumstances as reported by the police.