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  • Of course, it's about race.

    The Gates incident is about race and a community's assumptions about race and a whole lot of other things. If you want to call those assumptions profiling, then yes it was profiling but more than just racial profiling. When the call to police identified the two men at the Gates house as black, it became about race. When the sergeant arrived ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by miragelady on July 24, 2009

  • Crowley Admits The Arrest Was Motivated By Racial Complaint.

    The Gates situation is not plain. Nor is it simple. Nor was Gates necessarily paranoid. Nor are many of the comments on this blog respectful or insightful. Many of these comments show a lack of sensitivity of the type that causes many African-Americans to sense racism even where it may not exist. I am no apologist for black citizens who act ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by john adkisson on July 24, 2009

  • Seeing Different Perspectives Is the Key To Racial Respect.

    No amount of investigation will settle the question of whether race was a motivating factor in the treatment of Professor Gates. The truth lies in the perceptions and autobiographies of Gates and Crowley and, unfortunately, neither man will probably ever step back and look at the other man's point of view. Obama's comment on the Skip Gates ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by john adkisson on July 24, 2009

  • Was It Racial Profiling, Disorderly Conduct or Stupidity?

    Obama's comment on the Skip Gates incident was probably right. But, as the President implied, we will never really know if the incident was racially motivated. Yes, there is a police record. Yes, there is the account of Professor Gates. Yes, there is the fact that the disorderly conduct charge was dropped as soon as it had the effect ...
    Posted to Explainer by john adkisson on July 23, 2009