Considering Gates past well known political sentiments one wonders if this whole episode was a manipulated stunt on his part for public exposure & to garners some “oppressed minority folk” credentials.
Considering he was in the process of producing a documentary on racial profiling for PBS, I’d have to say you’re right.
Part of the plan, now exposed.
Boy, oh boy, the good professor really wants to put this behind him. I think too much of his intelligence to believe that he was so enraged that he couldn’t stop himself from following Sgt. Crowley out the front door and continuing to belabor him even after he was politely warned.
Nosiree, Gates made a snap decision that this was his golden opportunity to up his celebrity quotient and give himself some street cred. He was sure on a roll for the first few days after the incident, appearing on Oprah, threatening a lawsuit against the Cambridge Police Dept., and announcing a documentary about racial profiling.
I’m betting that Obama’s turning this into a national issue and focusing the country’s attention on it made Gates a laughingstock among his peers. I don’t think anyone who actually knows him was fooled for a minute. I’m guessing he gets snickered at a dozen times a day in the faculty lounges, lecture halls and five-star restaurants he frequents. I think he just wishes this whole thing could blow over and be forgotten. Unfortunately, he’s dyanamited his reputation as a serious scholar.
Just as The One has dynamited his image as the “clean, articulate” non-threatening black man who was going to grant the guilty white voters racial absolution...