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Lawyer: Gates sent flowers to woman who called 911
bostonherald.com via AP ^ | 7/31/09 | AP

Posted on 07/31/2009 2:15:07 PM PDT by GQuagmire

BOSTON — Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent flowers to the woman who unwittingly sparked a national debate on race by calling police to report what she thought might be a break-in at Gates’ home.

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To: GQuagmire

The very first sentence is wrong, so I didn’t read the rest of the story.

Lucia Whalen did not ‘spark a national debate on race’, unintentionally or otherwise.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his cohorts - including the POTUS - intentionally stirred the issue of race after a picture of the arrest was ‘leaked’ and the story ‘broke’ five days after Gates caused the incident to happen by his deliberate actions, and for his own purposes - one of which was apparently to provide an ongoing controversy and footage for a “racial profiling documentary’.

This type of reporting is why Sgt. Crowley needs to have no further ‘meetings’ and ‘phone conversations’ with Gates. Mr. Gates and Obama are only about furthering “racial harmony” according to their own perspective, and Sgt. Crowley will likely find himself to have been a pawn for their purposes when all is said and done.


21 posted on 07/31/2009 3:19:58 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: Free State Four

Gates is loving this, the media attention. He hit a home run with this incident


22 posted on 07/31/2009 3:21:12 PM PDT by mel
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To: GQuagmire

Those flowers would be dead by now...
if he had sent them when this initially happened..


23 posted on 07/31/2009 3:28:27 PM PDT by savage woman
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To: WellyP

Why believe this article if she got the flowers in APRIL? Give me a break. Who writes this crap?


24 posted on 07/31/2009 3:33:57 PM PDT by hkp123
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To: GQuagmire

too little too late after he dragged her name through the mud IMO


25 posted on 07/31/2009 3:43:16 PM PDT by hjczw
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To: mel
Gates is loving this, the media attention. He hit a home run with this incident

Yes, he did with the scm. He did hit a home run as far as the scm is concerned. But, middle-class folks of all colors who just work and get along each day are not buying it. Gates is freefalling in the world outside of belt-way polls.

26 posted on 07/31/2009 6:02:48 PM PDT by Free State Four
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If Gates was thankful for the caller’s actions, shouldn’t it follow that he should be thankful for the policeman’s actions? Just sayin’....

Exactly, why wasn't Gates thankful for the response of the the police to this matter? Would he have been more civil to a black officer? Why would that be? Is he judging a person on the color of their skin rather than their character? What would MLK think of this?

27 posted on 07/31/2009 6:50:33 PM PDT by DejaJude
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Exactly, why wasn't Gates thankful for the response of the the police to this matter? Would he have been more civil to a black officer? Why would that be? Is he judging a person on the color of their skin rather than their character? What would MLK think of this?

Occams razor: "when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better."

28 posted on 07/31/2009 7:03:58 PM PDT by Free State Four
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