I think he is sad and disappointed that obama is President and that Americans regardless of their race voted for him. Poor ol' fool, so much harder to be a victim of your race in 2009 America than it used to be...unless you're a white cop who ironically was protecting a black man's property against what was reported as a theft in progress.
Did you read the article? OMG. Talk about racist! Oh, and you can throw elitist on the pile, too.
By 1996, the Gateses had moved into a $890,000 house on tony Francis Avenue. Coyly dubbed the Writer's Block, or Smart Street, it is home to Cambridge's haute literary intelligentsia. Among Gates's new neighbors were Julia Child, John Kenneth Galbraith, and historian Justin Kaplan and his wife, novelist Anne Bernays. Even within the privileged confines of Harvard, Gates was atop the crème de la crème brulee.
Gates's life had become more like that of a movie star than an academic. He earned his frequent flier miles on the Concorde and stayed at the exclusive and stately Berkeley Hotel when he was in London for the BBC. In Hollywood, it was lunch with Jodie Foster, his former student at Yale. Then, perhaps, it was off to Washington, D.C., for the premiere of Spielberg's Amistad, or to Chicago for the opening night of his friend Anthony Davis's operatic version of the Amistad story.