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Originally Posted by shakran
This professor has a chip on his shoulder about either white people or the police. . .Or both. The cop's request that he join the cop on the front porch was not unreasonable. Nor was it unreasonable for the cop to be there.
If there actually HAD been someone breaking into the house, our professor would have been the first one howling that the goddamn cops don't do their jobs. And I wouldn't be shocked if he claimed the cops wouldn't protect him 'cause he's black.
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Um, yeah, but as soon as the professor
did step out of the house, he got arrested.
There's a reason why some people are scared by the police. They can make your life suck, and it's not their job to make your life suck.
I don't see why everyone in this thread is jumping to "the professor is racist," or "the cop is racist."
The call to the police was
maybe made out of racial profiling, and I think it's normal Gates got angry, and I think he was within his rights to stay right where the fuck he lives, and shown them ID.
I'm not sure that the cops did anything to defuse the situation, they did not need to go inside, they didn't need to stick around for so long. I agree with Will.
I don't get where you people get your conclusion that the prof was racist.