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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (59369)	7/25/2009 1:29:27 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Figures that inviting the police officer and Gates for a beer it would be viewed by you as "backed down big time from his "rush to justice". LMFAO... I bet you must be part of the birthers clan too... LMAO. BTW, I wonder about when Republicans will give Obama credit for turning around the economy... stock markets have been rocketing... DOW over 9000 now and climbing fast almost on a daily basis... even the housing market is turning now... oh my!!!

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (59369)	7/25/2009 1:51:19 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 149317

Gates failed to cooperate as a black man should, as Sidney Poitier’s character did when he was arrested in The Heat of the Night, showing respect and deference. If this hadn’t been the most pre-eminent scholar of African-American Studies in the country, we never would have known about this incident—but that was partly Gates’s point. Absent his notoriety, a middle-aged black man would have been taken from his own home for no other offense than claiming his right to be where he was—and saying so in a tone to which tone Crowley took offense. No law was broken. But a cop took umbrage. Yet we’re more inclined, even eager, to believe the word of a unknown cop than that of a respected professor. voices.kansascity.com