The entire Prof Gates story, **up to 2 days ago**, was really a ........

[Stinky The Clown]

[Ian David]

1. Well, now that Al Sharpton is involved, what can possibly go wrong?

:sarcasm:


FWIW, I agree with The President on this.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. I do, too. I also think it was a local story. Regional at most.

[marmar]

5. Prominent black Harvard professor....racial profiling?

It happened in a region, but it was very much a national story because it happens everywhere in America, way more often than people want to admit.

[TexasObserver]

3. The story is big because it matters, because it's symptomatic of virulent racism by police.

Your attempt to diminish it sounds a lot like every right wing radio broadcaster.

A well known professor from a highly respected university is arrested in his own home for back talking some rube cop. That's news. It's news because it's 2009, and we all know Mr. Big Shot Cop would never arrest a white man in his own home in the same neighborhood for the same thing.

Black men in America are treated like shit by cops, and this story proves that nothing a black man can do will ever prove to many racist cops that such a black man is deserving of equal treatment.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. The poll is fairly presented and the vast majority think it is, at most, a regional story

I appreciate your view and understand it.

You accuse me of "attempt(ing) to diminish it". You're wrong. I stated my personal opinion in a reply. I am as entitled to it as you are to yours. And it is worth exactly as much.

[marmar]

7. Vast majority? Check the poll results again.

[TexasObserver]

9. Some opinions stink.

They're not all created equal. Just because you're entitled to one doesn't mean it's a good one.

[BlooInBloo]

10. It's only recently that any majority supported interracial marriage....

Sometimes majority opinion says more about the respondents than it does the issue.

[NashVegas]

6. How About 'Regional Story With a National Column"?

Seems if we can have national stories about people breaking into a home and killing the occupants, we can have one that requires deeper thought.

[Uzybone]

8. depends on who you ask

for black Americans and other minorities its a national story. After all we see this type of treatment all across America.

for others it was a local story.

[timeforpeace]

11. Interstellar from the first moment. Gates is no media virgin.