Zero has described both Rev Wright and Gates as good friends. He has apologized for neither.
Gates taught at Duke University 1989-91, transferring to Harvard circa 91/92, about the time Zero was attending Harvard under the money of Kalid Al-Mansour, and about the time Zero was introducing his family to Rev. Wrights racist church. Gates claims to be descended from an Irish king (ring a bell?)
Gates wrote a recent article idolizing Zeros ascendency to president, in which he whined, this does not wipe the bloody slate clean. He is a self-proclaimed expert on every incident in the history of racism in America.
In the interview linked below, Gates also claims he wants to be a figure for prison reform, and expressed plans to pen a documentary on being arrested not as a famous academic but as an unrecognized black man, (although he was very deliberate in presenting his Cambridge id instead of a drivers license). One could assume, therefore, Gates is using this self-manufactured incident as a means to sell his hate-mongering to a producer, for a profit of course.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/gates-the-justice-system-is-rotten
Good, can we help to pay this dumb ass's flight to N Korea, Cuba or Iran and let him investigate their prisons there as a prisoner?