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Henry Louis Gates Jr. mulls moving over death threats
bostonherald ^ | August 3, 2009 | Susan Milton and Jessica Van Sack

Posted on 08/03/2009 3:51:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono

CHILMARK - Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has received numerous death threats since he accused a white officer of racially profiling him in a controversial arrest last month, prompting Harvard University officials to suggest he consider moving, the professor told a crowd yesterday.

“You should die; you’re a racist,” read one e-mail that Gates recalled in his first public appearance since sharing a beer at the White House with President Obama and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested him July 16. The threats forced Gates to change his e-mail address and cell phone number.

Crowley was investigating a possible burglary at Gates’ home, which Harvard Univesity owns. While Crowley claims Gates became enraged and continued to yell despite warnings, Gates has alleged racial profiling and said he never raised his voice. A charge of disorderly conduct against Gates was dropped.....


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1 posted on 08/03/2009 3:51:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

This Gates fellow makes his money on race. Thats why he perpetuates it. If the race issue dies, he makes no money.


2 posted on 08/03/2009 3:57:23 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (If Only To Be Left To Live My Own Life)
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To: JoeProBono

Another Obama diplomacy failure. Well maybe in his next trip overseas he can apologize for Cambridge.


3 posted on 08/03/2009 3:58:46 AM PDT by hflynn (The One is really the Number Two)
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To: JoeProBono
“You should die; you’re a racist,”

This sounds like something an incompetent leftist would write when trying to sound like a right wing racist. It does not ring true at all. I smell a lie here.

4 posted on 08/03/2009 3:59:12 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: JoeProBono

What’s Prof. Gates so afraid of? That the cops won’t be bothered to show up in case God-forbid an intruder tries to break into his house and kill him?


5 posted on 08/03/2009 3:59:32 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: JoeProBono

Hmmm ... I’d like to see the email Crowley and the 911 caller received.


7 posted on 08/03/2009 4:02:25 AM PDT by maggief
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Bingo.


8 posted on 08/03/2009 4:07:47 AM PDT by Ronin (It will be helpful if Geithner can show us some arithmetic.)
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To: FreeSouthernAmerican

Gates is a moron.
So is anyone that makes death threats to him..


9 posted on 08/03/2009 4:08:02 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: FreeSouthernAmerican

Death threats are asinine.


10 posted on 08/03/2009 4:17:19 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (Don't blame me... I voted for PALIN!)
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To: bondjamesbond

They are.


11 posted on 08/03/2009 4:18:20 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (If Only To Be Left To Live My Own Life)
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To: JoeProBono
Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has received numerous death threats ...

All carved on his chest in a mirror image, no doubt.

12 posted on 08/03/2009 4:21:29 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: JoeProBono

Could it be that he is moving because he hasn’t been reporting his free rent as taxable income? Just askin’.


13 posted on 08/03/2009 4:22:39 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: JoeProBono
Whining about e-mail death threats,which EVERYONE in the news gets,is the now standard,and boring way for bad people to get sympathy.

It's like if I do something stupid,I can always say,”But I'm a cancer survivor!” and get lots of forgiving hugs and kisses.

(I leave out the fact that my cancer was non-terminal basil cell carcinoma (the milder skin cancer) and a little plastic surgery whiped it out)

14 posted on 08/03/2009 4:24:07 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("The first president owned slaves and the current one wants them.")
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To: JoeProBono

Good !!!

.... I hope he stays on the run the rest of his sad little hate filled racist so called life...........beer summit made him a celebrity drunk on the run thanks to Obama using him as the tool Gates is ........:o)

What a bunch of posers these punks are.


15 posted on 08/03/2009 4:24:18 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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...after his financial arraignments, teachings and racial rants were exposed, sure is time to borrow Odumbo’s snake oil wagon and get out of town....OH by the way, fix that front door, and make sure your home is GREEN, and check with your local government Gestapo office before ya go.
16 posted on 08/03/2009 4:29:44 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: 17th Miss Regt

i dont believe the death threats.
the gates team are liars.


17 posted on 08/03/2009 4:35:13 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: JoeProBono

Notice that Crowley hasn’t pulled this trick, and I bet he got death threats.


18 posted on 08/03/2009 4:36:04 AM PDT by PghBaldy (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/president-obama-visits-wounded-troops.html)
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“You should die; you’re a racist,” read one e-mail that Gates recalled...

Yeah right Skippy.

19 posted on 08/03/2009 4:36:08 AM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: JoeProBono

I’d move too, after all his address is on the police do not respond list now.


20 posted on 08/03/2009 4:36:23 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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