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NEWS ABOUT: Skip Gates

Skip Gates stories: 7 news summaries

Gates: I Can 
Joke About 
Arrest Now 

Harvard prof kidded Cambridge cop
at White House

Aug 2, 09 5:24 PM CDT
(AP) - A black Harvard scholar said today he has been able to joke about his arrest by a white police officer that led to a national debate on race, despite receiving death threats and bomb threats. In his first public appearance since meeting with Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley at the... More »

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racism • arrest • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

(Newser) - Henry Louis Gates and Barack Obama have been “very publicly slapped down for speaking up and speaking out about police misbehavior,” but African-Americans “need to roar out their anger at such treatment,” Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times. Gates, not the officer who arrested... More »

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Barack Obama • racial profiling • police brutality • African-Americans • blacks • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates

ANALYSIS

 He Can't Say It 
 Like He Wants to Anymore


Jul 27, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has backed off a bit on his “acted stupidly” comments concerning the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates, saying they were not properly “calibrated.” But, aides say, it “was not a slip of the tongue,” Peter Baker writes in the New York ... More »

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White House • Ari Fleischer • health care reform • David Axelrod • Obama administration • John Podesta • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates

(Newser) - Just how reasonable was Sgt. James Crowley being when he arrested Skip Gates for mouthing off to him? The New York Times asks a wide range of cops how they handle abuse in the field, and got a range of responses. “If you don’t have a tough... More »

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police • disorderly conduct • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

(Newser) - Massachusetts police unions today called on President Obama, Gov. Deval Patrick, and others to apologize for criticizing the cops who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, the Boston Globe reports. “The president should make an apology to all law-enforcement personnel throughout the entire country,” said one Cambridge policeman.... More »

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Barack Obama • police • union • racial profiling • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

OPINION

Gates' Rage: It's Class, not Race

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

Jul 24, 09 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... More »

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Ivy League • police • race relations • racism • Harvard • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates

(Newser) - Henry Louis Gates is upset about his arrest, in which he sees wide implications and a potential "teachable moment." The Harvard professor talks it over with the Daily Beast in the person of Elizabeth Gates, who happens to be his daughter:
  • On the police: "I’m
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Cambridge • racism • arrest • racial profiling • police department • Harvard University • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates • Elizabeth Gates • black people

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