Barack Obama’s pal Henry “skip” Gates, the Harvard professor who couldn’t understand why a White police officer would stop and question him from climbing in his window, is now having trouble understand why a Black contractor won’t give his school historical papers he found in an abandoned house. When cleaning contractor Rufus McDonald found an old trunk in an attic last year he discovered it contained the personal papers of Richard T. Greener, Harvard University’s first Black graduate. The find sent waves of excitement through the academic world especially at Harvard where Skip Gates works. By his own description, the...