a crystal clear division between black -white relation.
early mobility of white working class has a deep impact on that
society.diversity doesn't much impact on that society.the story repeats it
self.m.marrable's analysis proves the naked reality affecting that society.the
liberal democratic foundation reflects a multi cultural racist shadow lines
over that society.while they preaching the liberal multi culturalism...
--- On Fri, 24/7/09, Ranjit Ranjit <ranjit.ran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Ranjit Ranjit <ranjit.ran...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [GreenYouth] Harvard professor's arrest spotlights racial profiling
> in the US
> To: "Greenyouth" <greenyouth@googlegroups.com>,
> grey-youth-movem...@googlegroups.com
> Date: Friday, 24 July, 2009, 9:38 AM
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message
> ----------
> From: Gyanendra Kumar <gyanendr...@gmail.com>
>
> Date: 2009/7/24
> Subject: Harvard professor's arrest spotlights racial
> profiling in the US
> To: our-media <our-me...@googlegroups.com>,
> aim_...@googlegroups.com
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:58 AM,
> Arvind Marathe <arvin...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> The pitfalls of racial profiling in Cambridge
>
> Ed Pilkington
>
>
>
> Being a highly respected scholar was not enough to stop
> Henry Louis
>
> Gates Jr. from being arrested for entering his own home.
>
>
>
> Note to all police officers in Cambridge, Massachusetts: if
> you
>
> absolutely do have to arrest an African-American man on
> suspicion of
>
> breaking into a house that turns out to be his own home
> then please,
>
> please make sure it is not Henry Louis Gates Jr.
>
>
>
> To say the Cambridge force had egg on its face on Tuesday
> does a
>
> massive injustice to the scale of its embarrassment. One of
> its
>
> sergeants had arrested, handcuffed and locked in a cell for
> four
>
> hours, arguably the most highly respected scholar of
> African-American
>
> history in America.
>
>
>
> Prolific writer, TV presenter, director of Harvard’s WEB
> Du Bois
>
> Institute for African and African American Research, friend
> of Oprah
>
> Winfrey — the list of Mr. Gates’s connections and
> achievements goes
>
> on.
>
>
>
> But when Mr. Gates returned last Thursday to his leafy
> Harvard home
>
> from a trip to China filming his latest TV documentary, he
> was, well,
>
> just another African-American man seemingly engaged in
> nefarious
>
> activities.
>
>
>
> It was the early afternoon when Mr. Gates (58) reached his
> house in a
>
> taxi . The front door had been damaged and he could not get
> in, so he
>
> entered through the back door, disabled the alarm and then
> again tried
>
> to push open the front door with the help of the (North
> African)
>
> driver.
>
>
>
> A (white) woman walking by saw an African-American man
> trying to force
>
> the door and leapt to the kind of assumptions that Mr.
> Gates has
>
> chronicled over many years. She called 911, and then
> hapless Sgt.
>
> James Crowley turned up. By then Mr. Gates, settling back
> home, was
>
> calling Harvard’s property section to report the faulty
> door. Sgt.
>
> Crowley asked him to step outside as he was investigating a
> report of
>
> a break-in. “Why, because I’m a black man in
> America?” Mr. Gates
>
> asked, according to Sgt. Crowley’s police report,
> refusing to leave
>
> his front room.
>
>
>
> Asked to prove it was his own home, Mr. Gates showed his
> Harvard ID
>
> and local driving licence. In return, Mr. Gates asked Sgt.
> Crowley for
>
> his name and badge number.
>
>
>
> In his report, Sgt. Crowley said Mr. Gates accused him of
> being a
>
> racist police officer and told him he had no idea who he
> was messing
>
> with.. The officer wrote that when asked Gates to step
> outside again,
>
> he was told: “Ya, I’ll speak with your mama
> outside.”
>
>
>
> “I was quite surprised and confused with the
> behaviour,” the sergeant
>
> said. He called officers from Cambridge and Harvard’s own
> police. Mr.
>
> Gates was arrested for “loud and tumultuous
> behaviour”.
>
>
>
> Later, Mr. Gates said he was “appalled that any American
> could be
>
> treated as capriciously by an individual police officer”.
> “There are
>
> one million black men in jail in this country and last
> Thursday I was
>
> one of them,” he told the Washington Post. “This is
> outrageous and
>
> that this is how poor black men across the country are
> treated
>
> everyday in the criminal justice system. It’s one thing
> to write about
>
> it, but altogether another to experience it.”
>
>
>
> As news spread of the arrest, friends and colleagues
> rallied to Mr.
>
> Gates’s side. He was offered the legal help of Charles
> Ogletree, a
>
> Harvard law professor and friend of Barack Obama.
>
>
>
> Lawrence Bobo, a Harvard sociologist, rushed to the station
> and drove
>
> him home after Mr. Gates was allowed out on $40 bail.
>
>
>
> Within hours of news breaking of the arrest, the Cambridge
> police had
>
> dropped all charges. The force said the “regrettable and
> unfortunate”
>
> incident should not be seen as demeaning the character and
> reputation
>
> of Mr. Gates or the character of the police. Mr. Gates is
> fond,
>
> though, of quoting an observation from Bert Williams, an
> early 20th
>
> century African-American entertainer: “It’s no disgrace
> to be
>
> coloured. But it is awfully inconvenient.” — ©
> Guardian Newspapers
>
> Limited, 2009
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ranjit
>
>
>
> >
>
>
>
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