He's just yawning in this photo, right?
Posted on 08/03/2009 11:48:34 AM PDT by buccaneer81
Henry Louis Gates Jr. mulls moving over death threats Calls Crowley ‘a nice guy’ By Susan Milton and Jessica Van Sack Monday, August 3, 2009
CHILMARK - Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has received numerous death threats since he accused a white officer of racially profiling him in a controversial arrest last month, prompting Harvard University officials to suggest he consider moving, the professor told a crowd yesterday.
“You should die; you’re a racist,” read one e-mail that Gates recalled in his first public appearance since sharing a beer at the White House with President Obama and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested him July 16. The threats forced Gates to change his e-mail address and cell phone number.
Crowley was investigating a possible burglary at Gates’ home, which Harvard University owns. While Crowley claims Gates became enraged and continued to yell despite warnings, Gates has alleged racial profiling and said he never raised his voice. A charge of disorderly conduct against Gates was dropped.
The arrest incited a national debate over race and class that Gates said yesterday shows no sign of abating.
“They have not been resolved at all,” Gates said before 150 spectators at the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival, where he was promoting his book, “In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past.”
On July 25, someone posted signs outside Gates’ Ware Street home calling him “shameful” and a “racist.” Gates said he has also received bomb threats.
Gates said he dreamed he was arrested at the White House the night before his meeting with Obama and Crowley. He said his family and Crowley’s were “like a deer caught in headlights” upon meeting.
But the two were able to use humor to break the ice, Gates said.
“I offered to get his kids into Harvard if he doesn’t arrest me again,” Gates said.
“I said to him, ‘I would have sworn you were 6-feet-8 inches tall,’ ” Gates said. “He said, ‘I used to be, but I’ve lost 2 to 3 feet over the last two weeks.’ How can you be mad at a guy like that? When he’s not arresting you, Sgt. Crowley is a nice guy.”
They even talked about meeting again, perhaps going to a Red Sox or Celtics game, Gates said.
A man in the crowd told Gates he admired his sense of humor, prompting Gates to quip: “I should have been funnier in the kitchen of my house on July 16.”
Gates is planning a documentary from both the perspective of police and people who have been victims of racial profiling so “Americans can understand that you can have two equally valid perceptions of the same event.”
He's just yawning in this photo, right?
For the rest of the summer at least, he can go to his place on Martha’s Vineyard.
I believe Obama is trying for fill the Hate Czar position.
Yes, Zero really stumbled on this one and revealed a lot more about himself than he wanted. I'm amazed that the mask slipped so soon. Have folks seen the photo that was released after the meeting? There's a post of it at American Thinker and commentary:
Obama's Revealing Body Language at American ThinkerOne could scarcely expect anything different from someone who defended hostpitals' rights to leave children from botched abortions in linen closets to die.
Equally valid? Sez who...
Actually, Rashomon has already been done, by a master and not by an arrogant, elitist, Ivy-league pretender...
Let's see, where oh where to move...
“What I want to know is this: How come we even know her name?”
It was in the police report.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html
The name should be redacted before the public sees it.
I definitely agree with you. That small action would have saved this woman a lot of unnecessary grief and anxiety.
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