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I don't know, I might be at odds with many here, but I feel for the professor. To spend your life pursuing academia, knowledge, and to dedicate yourself to teaching, and for this to happen to him when he comes home. I think understand his reaction, even though I don't have the experience of being black, I've been discriminated against in different situations. The first reaction must be "well, I spend my life doing this, but I'm still a walking stereotype to them, just another nigger in their eyes."
To be accused of breaking into your own house must be infuriating. I personally think the cop should have realized this, given him a chance, and tried to defuse the situation. Maybe it would have been the right thing to do, but even if it wasn't, it's better than exposing your department to a race-based lawsuit.
Also I'm having a hard time understanding why he(Gates) was an asshole.
How do you think you guys would react? Realistically, not just a level-headed reaction, that would seem the smartest from a distant observer. In his place, with his ethnicity, with the history, and the same situation, how do you think you'd react? I think I'd be super-pissed, and it'd be very hard to control myself.
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