Prof. Henry Gates Arrest - two viewpoints.
As the debate over Professor Henry Gates Arrest percolates up, it is clear that there are some surface issues and then there are some deeper issues as illustrated in the excerpts from these two letters to the editor submitted through Publishaletter.
No racial profiling; …… I am not black but I know from personal experience on more than one occasion that if you get in the cop’s face (as Gates obviously did) you can expect negative results whether your skin is white, black, or green. Super intelligent distinguished Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates doesn’t have the street smarts of a South Central crack dealer.…..
Symbolic of deep rooted racial divide:……..Look at this man…not being able to get in his apartment…What happened next is totally predictable given the history of that area.
Realizing all of this from a black perspective and whites looking to right wrongs of the past and present, whites are still reluctant to validate black issues. So we are talking past each other, clinging desperately to our half-truths. We are all morally exhausted, while white America can’t face the fact that racism is alive and well and Black America in many cases in leader-ship roles are the gatekeepers of racism.
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