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Originally Posted by dippin
disorderly conduct by definition cannot happen inside one's own home, and the definition was then stretched to make the guy's porch a public place.
And what does being a liberal city in a liberal state have to do with anything? Are liberal cities less likely to be racist?
Last I checked, the last fight over segregated buses and the such took place in Boston...
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Outside is outside. Doesn't matter if its the porch or the edge of the property. Gates should never have continued with his rant once outside. He should have just closed the door, then made his phone calls or write his letters to complain about the cops actions. Instead, he thought he could brow-beat a white cop because he is black and get away with it. If it was a black cop or if Gates was white, it would be a non-story.
As far as laws/ordinances/whatever against racism, yes. Cambridge is pretty well known for its tolerance towards the minority, be it race, religion or whatever.
The bus thing was the desegregation of the schools, when the city mandated that some black kids had to go to white schools and vice versa.