The role of race in the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. became more difficult to untangle Monday with the release of the tape, because no matter what Officer Crowley says, we in the media are programmed to think that Professor Gates is being completley truthful and honest, and that therefore the police officer and/or the 911 caller must be hateful racists, and so the information in this tape will force us to come up with an entirely new explanation for this incident that still fits into our chosen story line about racism in law enforcement...
-PJ