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.
““They need to do what they have to, to protect themselves, and we don’t have any business trying to stop them.””
Uppity, perhaps?
“Among Gates’s new neighbors were Julia Child, John Kenneth Galbraith, and historian Justin Kaplan and his wife, novelist Anne Bernays.”
Don’t be saucy with me, Anne!
That tells me all I need to know about Haavaad.