Because of the following story I refuse to even pretend that you are my President. You do NOT represent my country in any way. You do not represent the many cultures, races, creeds, and religions I grew up with. And, further more, you are an embarrassment to my country! I want my fellow countrymen to stand up and loudly denounce you. You have set us back at least four decades and you seem proud of it. I want other nations to know that we have an impostor in the White House.HOW DARE YOU OR PROFESSOR GATES BRING RACE INTO THIS SITUATION! IT IS YOU TWO WHO ARE STUPID!As a while female let me tell you how an AMERICAN would feel! Any American would feel frightened and violated and scared to find the police questioning them in their own home. Some would be terrified, some would argue back but all would be indignant regardless of their race!As for the police, they had been called by a concerned citizen who saw two men they did not know apparently breaking into a home. They called to report it and the police responded. Good for them! They did their job. Think of the hue and cry had the men really been burglars and the police had NOT responded!And what do you as our supposed leader do? What does the local government and media do? They dig up cases three and four decades old and say, "See, this is a constant pattern." Now just who is stupid? Who refuses to move on?True Americans are sick and tired of it. It is over. We have come together. If there are still a few of you who insist on dragging up what happened a century ago, do it in private and let the rest of us lead our lives together and in peace. The subject has been beat to death.NO, BARRY, YOU WILL NEVER REPRESENT THE COUNTRY I KNOW AND LOVE! You are too filled with hate.NATICK, MassThursday, July 23, 2009 —Associated PressA white police sergeant accused of racism after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home insisted Wednesday he won't apologize for his treatment of the Harvard professor, but President Barack Obama said police had acted "stupidly.Officers were responding to the home Gates rents from Harvard after a woman reported seeing "two black males with backpacks" trying to force open the front door, according to a police report. Gates, who had returned from a trip overseas with a driver, said he had to shove the door open because it was jammed. He was inside, calling the company that manages the property, when police arrived.Gates was accused by police of "tumultuous" behavior toward the officers. But Gates countered by saying Crowley was clearly responding to racial profiling and "couldn't understand a black man standing up for his rights, right in his face."Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, said he was troubled and upset over the incident. Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, who also is black, has said she spoke with Gates and apologized on behalf of the city, and a statement from the city called the July 16 incident "regrettable and unfortunate."Police say Gates yelled at the officer, accused him of racial bias and refused to calm down after the officer demanded Gates show him identification to prove he lived there. Gates denies that he yelled at the officer, other than to repeatedly ask his name and badge number, and he says he readily turned over his driver's license and Harvard ID to prove his residence and identity.Gates said he was "outraged" by the arrest, wants an apology from Crowley and would use the experience to help make a documentary about racial profiling in the United States."This isn't about me, this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," he said.He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman."Gates' supporters cite Boston's history as a city plagued by racism as an underlying reason why this could still happen to an esteemed scholar, at midday, in his own home."That stain on this city — as far as persons of color are concerned — is a real one," television and radio commentator Callie Crossley said.She recalled the case of Charles Stuart, who caused a citywide manhunt in 1989, when he said a hooded black man shot him and killed his pregnant wife as they got into their car. Stuart eventually was labeled the killer, but not before a black man arrested on unrelated charges became the prime suspect.Stuart committed suicide the next year by jumping off a bridge.Perhaps nothing epitomizes Boston's struggle with race relations better than the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the uproar over the integration of public school students in the 1970s. The photo shows a white man swinging a large pole with an American flag at a black man during a protest against the desegregation plan at City HalCertainly when someone like Gates finds himself in this situation, he has in mind this baggage," Lamont said.Richard Weinblatt, director of the Institute for Public Safety at Central Ohio Technical College, said the police sergeant was responsible for defusing the situation once he realized Gates was the lawful occupant. It is not against the law to yell at police, especially in a home, as long as that behavior does not affect an investigation, he said."That is part of being a police officer in a democratic society," Weinblatt said. "The point is that the police sergeant needs to be the bigger person, take the higher road, be more professional."

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