President Barack Obama’s initiative to host a ‘Beer Summit’ for a black Harvard professor and a Cambridge, Massachusetts, cop has led to the latter two acting like best buds these days, sharing light moments with each other, and making plans to enjoy time and to go to a Red Sox game together.
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Michael J. O’Neil: What I Hope a Fly on the Wall in the White House Would Hear
July 28th, 2009 |
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I was thrilled to see the President invite Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates to the White House. The more I consider who all three of these men are, the more they strike me as big, principled men.
Wajahat Ali: No Racism In Obama’s Post Race America
July 28th, 2009 |
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One wonders what chaos would erupt if Obama had explicitly called out the arrest for what it actually represented: stupidity and racism.
Lionel: Gatesgate: They’ve All Got It Wrong.
July 28th, 2009 |
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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.
Lincoln Mitchell: The Policeman, the President, the Professor, an Apology, and a Round of Beers
July 28th, 2009 |
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If Obama, Gates and Crowley ever get together for that beer, it will be a good photo and probably an interesting discussion, but it will not change how African Americans are treated by police.
Richard M. Benjamin: Mark Another Coup for David Axelrod
July 27th, 2009 |
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The threesome – or Man Date – between the President, Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley, and Skip Gates bears the slight fingerprints of David Axelrod. The…
Lanny Davis: Obama: His Own Best Crisis Manager
July 27th, 2009 |
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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.
Natalie Holder-Winfield: Why America Needs the Rage of the Privileged Black Class
July 27th, 2009 |
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After gathering the pertinent facts surrounding last week’s arrest of distinguished Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates–reading the police report, reviewing Massachusetts’ disorderly conduct statute, and…
Andy Ostroy: Did Obama Mean “Stupid-ly” or “Stoopid-ly?”
July 26th, 2009 |
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It’s quite possible the nation’s first African-American president was in fact paying Gates’ arresting officer a compliment.
Danny Groner: President Obama’s Intervention Opened Up Flood Gates
July 26th, 2009 |
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I have followed the Henry Louis Gates story pretty closely this week. It has unquestionably intensified over recent days yet, strikingly, without much new information…
Gates: It’s Time To ‘Move On’ From Arrest
July 25th, 2009 |
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BOSTON — Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he is ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying “in the end, this is not abou…
Yvonne R. Davis: The Unteachable Lesson: Can We Learn From Gates and Crowley?
July 25th, 2009 |
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Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America’s new 21st Century Poster Child for “racial profiling.”
Michael J. O’Neil: The Gates/Crowley Rorschach Test
July 24th, 2009 |
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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.