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08.06.2009 6:43 pm

Don’t jump to conclusions on race

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This is in response to the letter from Jenna Kotch in the Sunday, 8/2/09, Post-Dispatch.

 

How one can state with such certainty that race was behind the incident?  No one except Mr. Gates and the officer knows exactly what transpired that…

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08.05.2009 5:59 pm

The fear is justified

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Leonard Pitts’ Sundayc olumn was another outstandingly good pieces!
 
I am White, but I have always had Black friends. Pitts wrote, “Every Black man knows what that fear is like.” I know that fear is justified. I have seen, and known of…
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08.03.2009 5:25 pm

The right to be right and the law of dealing with the law

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

All the media coverage of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the subsequent remarks of President Obama brought up old memories  for me.  Many years ago when my children were little I was stopped by the Collinsville…

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07.30.2009 6:46 pm

Much can be learned from Gates/Crowley incident

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There is much to be learned from this incident.. Profiling and stereo-typing do exist and  exists similiar to a two way street. Mr. Gates was tired,  frustrated  and hyper-sensitive to race issues. He profiles the officer as being prejudiced and reacts based on that…
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