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Gates' Rage: It's Class, not Race

'Gates is Ivy League pissed with a dash of Black anger. Not the other way around.'

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 24, 2009 8:26 AM CDT

(Newser) – Skip Gates isn’t outraged because he was the victim of racial profiling. He’s outraged because the cops didn’t recognize his Ivy League credentials, a fellow black Ivy Leaguer writes anonymously on This Week in Blackness and Salon. "He didn’t resent being identified as Black; he resented being identified as that kind of Black, the kind of Black that can be hassled and pushed around by simpleton cops. How dare you hassle me? I’m Skip Gates: Harvard professor!"

It's the Ivy League Effect, the writer says, that seems to have made the professor think he could harass the cops he thought were harassing him. Sure, they were almost certainly in the wrong. “But I’m also sure the good doctor was talking some shit. That Ivy League Effect has washed out his healthy fear of the police.” Gates says he’s “joined the ranks of the million incarcerated black men in America,” but that’s laughable, the writer says. “He does not see those million men as kin.”

Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., is seen during an interview in his home in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Jan. 18, 2008.
Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., is seen during an interview in his home in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Jan. 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. participates in a panel on CNN's live show 'Moment of Truth: Countdown to Black in America 2,' Wednesday, July 22, 2009 in New York.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. participates in a panel on CNN's live show 'Moment of Truth: Countdown to Black in America 2,' Wednesday, July 22, 2009 in New York.   (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
In this photo taken by a neighbor, July 16, 2009, Skip Gates, the director of Harvard's Institute for African and African American Research, is arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
In this photo taken by a neighbor, July 16, 2009, Skip Gates, the director of Harvard's Institute for African and African American Research, is arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass.   (AP Photo/Demotix Images, B. Carter)
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Before we heed the call of racism, let’s be mindful of the tower from which that call came. This has something to do with race. But it has a lot more to do with messing with Skip Gates. - Anonymous black Ivy Leaguer

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COMMENTS
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Shannonals
Jul 27, 2009 3:40 AM CDT
You have to check the newspapers, not the media stations. Rev. Al Sharpton made comments in the Boston Globe and Jesse Jackon spoke with CNN & Fox News.
Shannonals
Jul 27, 2009 3:35 AM CDT
No innocent person should fear the Police?! Amnd exactly how many citizens have been placed in jail over faulty evidence and false Police reports?
riffran
Jul 25, 2009 12:11 PM CDT
no accusations ...just the plain ole truth..he played the race card

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