Tag Archives: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Since everyone was wondering about racial profiling by the woman who called the police, it looks like the caller is off the hook.  According to the audio that the Cambridge PD released today, Lucia Whalen, the caller, didn’t even know Gates and the driver were black, PLUS she raised the question of whether or not they lived there, citing the fact that they had suitcases (click text for links):

“They were two larger men — one looked kind of Hispanic but I’m not really sure, and the other one entered and I didn’t see what he looked like at all,” she said. “I just saw it from a distance.”

Great interview with Skip Gates above. That guy is eloquent, and there’s an Asian connection–he was filming Yo-Yo Ma’s ancestral cemetery. Also, did Soledad O’Brien say that she had Gates as a professor during college?  Man, this keeps on going further and further up the chain!  I found it hilarious how CNN did the video panning across the crowd during Gates’s talk–it almost reminded me of that patriotic scene from “Independence Day.” Haha. It’s totally going to make this filthy cop look bad, but filthy cops deserve to look bad. As Obama says in this article: