The person who was killed was not only the homeowner of the house he was a DC police officer and he just happened to be black.

The grand jury did not indict the PG police involved.

I guess Gates is lucky to still be alive.

So sad a situation.

Back on New Year's Eve in 1988, when I was getting my ass kicked in a parking lot by a group of neo-Nazi skinheads who took exception to my anti-Bush bumper sticker, I learned an important lesson that I hope closeted bigots everywhere will someday learn, preferably the same way: hatred is never very precise. Bigots tend to focus on one particular category, but they really hate everyone. Is there a racist on the planet who isn't also a sexist and a religious bigot?

Members of the dominant group who think bigotry isn't their issue are gravely mistaken. Take it from this 6'6" blond, blue-eyed, obviously northern European guy who had six "Aryans" stomping his ribs with their jackboots. Bigots are about as selective as hand grenades.

If I'm driving by and I see one guy waiting in a car at the curb and another guy forcing a locked door, I'd call the cops, too. Whether they were black or white would not affect my feeling that the situation didn't look right and the cops should check it out. It would be my civic duty to report it.

The real lesson here is never, ever express anger, indignation or outrage towards a police official under any circumstances. Doing so will get you arrested at best and tazered or shot at worst. The personality types who are attracted to police work tend to be authoritarian bullies, they have guns and they've been trained to kill without hesitation. They should be handled like nitroglycerin, gently and with respect.

Gates should have politely said, "Thank you, sir, for coming so quickly to be sure my house wasn't being robbed. I really appreciate it." Instead, he was puffed up on his own self-importance. He's lucky he didn't get the shit beat out of him.

Fact is, if Obama were all-white, the question never, ever, would have come up. What the story really reveals is that the beltway "journalists" think Obama's hue is what's definitive about him -- not his education, his career, and certainly not his policies and beliefs. Is this Seeyle person some kind of summer intern from a high school or what? In a way she's even more sickening than the likes of Judith Miller. The Times should be ashamed of running crap like this.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

...by saying that police had "acted stupidly" (regarding the arrest of Professor Gates).

Because of course a white president would never say such a thing.

Years ago, I called the police, reporting a possible ongoing  attack.
When the police did come to my house to take a report, my dog innocently barked at this stranger (the officer).
He said take care of the dog or I`ll spray her.
I didn`t know what he`d said, but saw him get  a canister from his
utility" belt.
I then realized he was going to "mace" my "little female pet".
I reached behind him & opened the door while I simultaneously put my hand on his chest & flipped him out of my house onto his back into the snow.

It goes on from there, though we both lived through the incident which incidentally I made a personal appearance at the station the next day to make a formal complaint.
I left that town soon thereafter.
HAHAHHHHahahhhaaaaaha

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.

 Gates, however, told him "that I had no idea who I was 'messing' with" and was being so loud that he could not give pertinent information to the department when he was calling in, the sergeant said.

Authorities have said they may release tapes of the officer calling in, in which Gates is heard in the background

Crowley's report said that when he asked to speak with Gates outside, the professor at one point responded, "I'll speak with your mama outside."