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Scholar’s arrest is a signpost on road to equality
Case signals there’s ‘nothing post-racial’ about U.S., colleague of Gates says

ANALYSIS
By JESSE WASHINGTON
AP National Writer

updated 3:18 a.m. PT, Wed., July 22, 2009

It took less than a day for the arrest of Henry Louis Gates to become racial lore. When one of America's most prominent black intellectuals winds up in handcuffs, it's not just another episode of profiling — it's a signpost on the nation's bumpy road to equality.

The news was parsed and Tweeted, rued and debated. This was, after all Henry "Skip" Gates: Summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale. MacArthur "genius grant" recipient. Acclaimed historian, Harvard professor and PBS documentarian. One of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Americans" in 1997. Holder of 50 honorary degrees.

If this man can be taken away by police officers from the porch of his own home, what does it say about the treatment that average blacks can expect in 2009?

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excerpt from:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32077998/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/?GT1=43001


Anyone else shaking their head at the image of the male officer of color (toward the front of the photo)?
:eyes:

Seeing that brother, I seriously want to do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdffmmnWZHs