Reply #3: bliss, your last sentence says it all in more ways than one. [View All]

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"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?"

I only have ONE problem with Dr. Gates and that IS: Where have you been on this issue for the last couple of decades? NOW, he wants to let this 'travesty' be KNOWN???? Celebrities, politicians and community leaders ACROSS THIS COUNTRY have been addressing this problem since the birth of 'hip hop!' Why hip hop? Cause that's when the FEAR SET IN!! When white women started clutching their purses, white people started locking their car doors, crossing to the OTHER side of the street, AND RED LINING! Fear of gang bangers and the like.

Dr Gates is a day LATE and a dollar short!