What if the esteemed Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., understood that the officers were there to protect him and his stuff?
What if he provided the identification with out a lot of attitude?
What if he thanked them for responding to the alert and realized that if it had indeed been a break-in, which it looked very much like it was, the consequences could have been quite dangerous?
What if he realized that blacks are not the only ones stopped because they fit a profile? My daughter and her husband were forced face-down onto hot asphalt with a gun in their faces because they were mistaken for a couple of felons who had been seen in the same phone booth they had just left. All were white.
Gates is a college professor, so I guess he's doing all right.
Gates needs to get over himself.
-- Dorothy Hage, Newbury Park