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I guess that even in Massachusetts if you are black you don't belong. Racial profiling is alive and well  in the neighborhoods around Harvard.  Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested in front of his house for disorderly conduct by the local police when he questioned why he was being harassed in his own home after providing ample evidence that he did, indeed, live there. And you thought racism was a 'southern thing'. No, it is alive and well in the neighborhoods of the affluent, in the neighborhoods surrounding academia, in one of the spots where we started this revolution and gave birth to this great land. Shame on Officer Crowley. Just because he wears a badge doesn't mean that a black man has to bow down to his 'authority', it means he is just another racist cop (there are a lot of them out there). Cambridge Police need to be a bit less afraid of black people and drop some of the stereotypes from their minds. The whole world is now watching Cambridge Massachusetts

Date: 2009-07-22 08:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] djdig.livejournal.com
As an MA resident, I have to say, everyone I've talked to lately is pretty embarased by this.

Boston Globe's Miss Conduct tweeted, "If anyone creates a Facebook fan page for "I WANT #SkipGates to Break Into My House and Would Fix Him a Nice Cup Tea," I'm joining."

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