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Mookin's colleagues, Bill Fisher and William Ury, famously suggest that an advantage of alternative dispute resolution is its a way to get people to focus less on their positions, and more on interests -- and, in doing so, enabling parties to find common ground. Given the he-said/he-said nature of this dispute so far, this sounds like an idea both should strongly consider.
From what I understand, Crowley actually teaches training courses on how to not act on stereotypes ... one of the ideas that Gates is know for advancing is that people from all ethnic backgrounds should be teaching courses on ethnic studies. You'd think, maybe, those are some interests that could get a dialogue going ...
President Obama just learned a painful lesson about the power of the bully pulpit. One would have thought that after his "bitter" Pennsylvanians comment during the campaign produced such outrage, that he would learned that the President is, among other things, the Cheerleader-in-Chief. When a sitting American president disparages any group of Americans, it makes him seem petty and clueless, and destroys confidence in the President's leadership. Despite all the ribbing, perhaps Obama should stick with the Telepromptors after all.
It appears that the incident in question did not revolve around race at all. Based on the facts that have emerged it appears that both men had a bit too much of male ego and testosterone that caused what should have been a fairly quick and innocent situation escalate into a belligerent shouting match and subsequent arrest. If Gates had not acted in a totally inappropriate way to the officer, namely by calling the officer a racist and then by making inappropriate comments about the officer's mother, it's probable that the officer would have simply checked Gates' driver's license and left the scene. Gates' behavior finally ended up with the officer arresting him because Gates' taunting and belligerence finally got the best of the officer. The officer should have left the premises as soon as Gates produced the driver's license and that should have ended the matter. It looks like both sides are at fault here. If Gates merely produced his driver's license immediately when the officer asked for it simply to verify that Gates lived at the residence then the entire scene could have been avoided. I'm a white female and the few times I've been stopped by police officers for minor traffic issues it's always best to cooperate and act in a deferential manner with the police. Acting respectfully to police officers is a given no matter what race you are or no matter what race the officer may be. The very rude demeanor expressed by Gates toward the officer who was merely doing his job looks more like a class issue than a race issue with the esteemed Harvard professor acting arrogantly against a blue collar policeman.
Regarding mediation, usually mediation doesn't work unless both sides really want to settle something. That's my experience as an attorney anyway. Again, with the macho testosterone levels and egos on both sides at the levels that they are at this time, neither will admit that they were wrong (although both were wrong - Gates was rude, ,uncooperative and vicious and the officer played the "overkill" card by arresting Gates when the suspected "burglar" was found to be the resident of the home he should have excused himself and walked away). Both of them are grown men that are held in high regard in their respective professions, they should move on and get over it.
that's cute, but the problem is that we, black folks, are getting awfully tired of talking to people about race who really don't even know how racist they are or have any inkling of their level of distrust of blacks. We are told crowley is an expert in racial profiling -- obviously not if he can't even understand why Gates went ballistic. I had an incident some years ago where a white cop slammed my head against a car hood to the point I had abrasions on my chin and the white women across the street called for assistance for the officer because I was fighting him. I am 5'6", 135 pounds; the cop was 6"4" and over 250. When I called the US attorney's office I was told by the new Republican staffer, "We only support the police. We don't believe there is any problem with police actions in Jefferson Parish, La." They refused to even discuss the situation.
Well said, CGATRR!
Most reasonable people (not the activists or talking heads on cable, however) can readily conclude that both Gates and the officer were acting like total boobs! Had someone, either one, taken a deep breath and stepped back from the brink, this unfortunate encounter might never had happened.
The comments above, and on other blog postings and forums, frequently state that once Crowley found Gates to be the resident of the home, Crowley should have "excused himself and walked away". Crowley himself addresses this in an interview with a Boston-area TV reporter today (http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO119845/) - the 911 caller said that there were 2 men involved and thus 2 potential burgulars. Crowley said he didn't know if either 1) Gates was 1 of the burgulars, or 2) when Gates was established as the lawful resident, that there might have been 2 burgulars in the house that Gates wasn't aware of. That sounds like an eminently reasonable position for the responding officer to take, and provides a pretty reasonable explanation why he didn't just leave the house upon establishing that Gates was the lawful resident.
Professor Gates used the race card as soon as the officer challenged him and his behavior was obnoxious. Which brings up a question, why do blacks have the Black Cacus, Black Chamber of Commerce, black colleges, etc. If whites did that they would be called racists.
Mediation does sound like a good option. For one thing, mediation would avoid the Rainbow Coalition-type pattern of suing for a large financial settlement and mildly altered behavior without enhancing understanding or improving relations. It would also take the dispute out of the presidential arena. The president's position should not be allowed to influence the outcome, particularly when he staked it without the benefit of the facts in the case.
I think it was strikingly inappropriate for Pres. Obama to comment on the case. Certainly legal advisors urge their bosses to refrain from commenting before they have all the facts - usually as the result of a completed investigation. By failing to refrain in this case, the president of "all Americans" appears to have taken the side of a friend who is black over a white man who is a stranger to him. Is that not the behavior that has frustrated minorities, including black Americans, for centuries? Does that move Americans forward?
Did the president intentionally advance this imbroglio? If so, this is another indication of his inexperience. Not only did the racial profiling story distract from the health care topic, but it has also made our president appear to be in conflict with officers paid by our society to uphold the law. And the flap only rubs salt in wounds of an already divided nation. What did the President of the United State expect to accomplsh with his careless remarks, intentional or not?
agree with 2:26 and 2:38. gates's actions show that he is not true scholar of "black studies" -- if such a thing exists. and crowley's showed that expertise in "profiling" is a skill applying a concept that doesn't inform anything. the one most in need of mediation is the president for admitting shooting off his mouth and showing he didn't learn anything at harvard -- he is in dire need of fisher and ury's intervention.
What happened with innocent until proved guilty? Off course the policeman enjoyed the misuse of his authority!! it happens all the time. They question you, act intimidating, bother you, and they enjoy it!! if you don't know it, believe it. happens all the time. later they brag with friends how they jailed some hispanic or black. I'm sure Crowley braggs about it right now, with his most intimate friends...
Interesting how a Black Mayor, Black Governor, and Black President are all shouting about the atrocities committed against a privileged Black Harvard Professor. Unfortunately, black leaders in America are wasting the opportunity to put race behind us, and are deepening the divide. Quit playing the race card and let's MOVE ON.
What mediation we are talking about? Gates should take the anger management class; they should have some at Harward.
The photograph that I have seen fo the incident shows two things: (a) Professor Gates being led away in cuffs with his mouth wide open in a yell; and (b) in the foreground of the photo, a black police officer, leading the way. Hmmm. Methinks that the Professor, who is part of the "civil rights industry" and presumably has a very high opinion of himself, "flunked the attitude test" that anyone, regardless of color, submits to when in an encounter with the police. I am a BigLaw partner, but on those (few) occasions when I interact with police, I am extremely polite ("Yes, sir, no, sir") and careful not to signal that I expect preferential treatment. I suspect that the Professor expected special, preferential treatment from the police because of his privileged status, and was enraged when he did not receive it. Oddly, it is usually the Left that complains that those in a privileged status expect to, and often do, receive special, preferential treatment. Here, as close as I can tell, the complaint is that this privileged individual did not receive special, preferential treatment. Presumably Obama saw the photo but nonetheless couldn't resist weighing in on the side of the Professor.
; and (b) is hypersenitive, prickly, and expecting special treatment.
I did not vote for the president, but fully agree with his characterization of "the police" action, and hope he doesn't back down. James Crowley is not "the police," and "the police" is not James Crowley. The president has a right to assume Sgt. Crowley complied fully with departmental policy, which itself is at issue.
It amazes me all the commentary I've seen so far involves the issue of prejudices and completely misses the real problem: That police in Cambridge, MA (at least), are trained to feel sufficiently confident and emboldened by a telephone call from a stranger to whisk any homeowner away from his own home in handcuffs, after proper identification had been produced, and then justify the action with a charge of "disorderly conduct" by the homeowner in a "public place."
I wonder what Sgt. Crowley would have done if Mr. Gates had "back-talked" him while lathering-up inside the shower? America - you wanted the Patriot Act, right? Well, you got it. Next thing you have to learn is to keep your mouth shut when a badge shows-up at the front door.
To Anonymous @ 3:14 pm,
Why whites cannot put race and stereotypes of blacks and latinos behing them also ? Let's be realistic ,the country is not yet ready to let go of their prejudices at this time .
i'm not an officer, a professor or a racist. I've read a lot about this incident. I was not there when it happened, and I don't know these two men. Based on what I've read, this is what I would have done as the Crowley and then as Gates.
Crowley: A call goes out to police that 911 caller has reported what looks to be a break in at a residence. I the only description I'm given is 2 black males with back packs. I take the call and arrive on the scene. I know from my experience that robbers can be armed and extremely dangerous, as I go up to the house there is damage to the front door, and there is man on the phone. The man is black but doesn't have a back pack next to him and I can't see anyone else. My first thought would be that this could be the home owner that just came in to find damage to his front door and might be calling the police now, but what he doesn't know is that this just happened and there could be two other men in the house that could pose a danger to him as well as myself. My first reaction would be to get the man out of the house to get him out of harms way if there are still people in the house, I would ask him to come outside ID my self as an officer responding to a robbery call and ask the man for his ID and if he saw anyone in the house or fleeing the house when he arrived. It would then be explained that he had just arrived home from a trip (explains the back packs) and that he couldn't open the front door and asked the driver to help him (explains the 2 men), but when we couldn't force the door open I went in though the back and called the management company.
Gates: I just arrive home from a long return home from a trip to china, I'm tired and just want to get into my house to relax, when I try to open the front door its stuck, after trying to open it I give up and just go in the back door. Since I damaged the door trying to open it, I wouldn't feel safe leaving it like that over night so I decide to go ahead and call the management company. While on the phone a officer in a marked car and in uniform shows up at my home, knowing that I have no police record and have done nothing wrong I am concerned why the officer is here and wants me to come outside, there must be something wrong. I would tell the person on the phone that I need to call them back and greet the officer and ask what is going on, why are you here? If the officer asks me for my ID with out answering my question, I would still hand over my ID and repeat the question, saying officer please tell me why you are here and what is going on. I would think after the officer looked at my ID and realized I'm the resident of this home he would explain what was going on and he needed to get me out of the house for my safety and his, and again at that time the situation and the damage to the front door could be explained.
Now I will say that after presenting my ID the police officer refused to answer my questions as to why he was there, I would become upset, no question about that, anyone would. If I was an officer and was putting my life on the line to protect someone, and then was meet with resistance, and comments that I was a racist I would be upset, not enough to arrest someone. However if I was leaving and they continued to follow me out of the house screaming and yelling at me that I'm a racist when I was just doing my job then I would become upset, and I can't say now we are out side and he is calling me a racist I would just leave.
Everyone at Harvard is privileged and Gates is privileged above most. Education, income, respect, you name it. Good for Harvard, good for him, but that does not put him above the law or give him a moral right to threaten a working-class police officer trying his job. How dare he think flashing a Harvard ID absolves him of the need to demonstrate legal occupancy and the decency to explain the context an apparent break-in. How dare the governor and the president publicly tarnish the reputation of others lower down the socioeconomic ladder on no more solid grounds that their friend was involved. Elitism sucks whatever your melanin levels.
Gates is another race baiter who relates everthing to his skin color. Ignore the fool.
The two men offer flatly contradictory accounts of what happened. At least one of them must be falsifying events. Why should one party sit down to chat with another who is lying?
Wow. What a sad state.
The President missed a great opportunity to work through the issue. Instead, he chose to get his most ardent supporters fired up -- probably because his policy initiatives are failing. Before talking about history of whatever and hypothetical that no one cares about --stop and think. Are your own reactions to the story motivated by the fact the person arrested was black?
Despite the much progress made by african americans, and minorities in general, in this country, it is sad to see that politicians can command their puppets so easily.
Why is when Ricci , a white fireman from New Haven , felt to have been inapproprietely treated , all the whites stand behind him . But when Prof. Gates felt to have been inapproprietely treated , all the whites are against him ?
No one is making this a racial thing except Gates and his supporters. If you are actually following the story, you would see that minority police organizations that have worked with this officer are supporting him. His partner that was there at the time of the events, is supporting him.
Further, there is no evidence for "all whites" supporting Ricci. I feel sorry for you, that you cannot get past your own prejudices. As a minority, I feel we will fail to make further progress on race-relations as long as such attitudes exists on either side, regardless of if they are prevalent.
The fact that this became such a big issue is showing that there are atill many unresolved race issues in America. If you just keep to the bare facts (as reported by the media), the impression you get is that Gates overreacted when the officer asked him for identification in his own house. I wouldn't have liked that either, but I would have handed my ID, and not made a big fuss about it. Obama's intervention was unfortunate in that he called the police "stupid". I think he has already retracted from it.
* Curious wrote:
Why is when Ricci , a white fireman from New Haven , felt to have been inapproprietely treated , all the whites stand behind him . But when Prof. Gates felt to have been inapproprietely treated , all the whites are against him ?
Besides the fact that you don't have any evidence to support your assumptions, try to ask yourself why were all the blacks against Ricci and behind Gates?
You don't have any evidence to support your assumptions, and even if that were the case, have you ever tried to ask yourself why were all the blacks against Ricci and behind Gates?
Good point Curious - I have been wondering about that myself, and of course then the majority white Supreme Court rewards the white firefighters and attacks the hispanic female's court decision. We also now have all the white male bigmouths on talk radio and Fox trash talking the black President and the hispanic female as well as the black professor. My opinion? There are a lot of overnourished, overconfident, white males having a BIG freak-out about not getting the deference and privilege they think they should be getting, so they need to go out and buy more guns and shoot their mouths off about minorities and women getting things they think only they don't deserve (after all, white men, being Masters of the Universe and all, should get all the money, good jobs, nice houses, pretty white women, etc.). Of course the white "neighbor" and the white cop thought the old man with the cane was a burglar - he was black, wasn't he? Same reason they "know" the President is a racist and the white cop was doing the right thing.
The only time we seem to come together as Americans is when our nation is attacked by those beyond our borders. Do we really have to experience another terrorist attack before we can live by a more positive perspective?...
Thanks for proving the point that you can't get past race.
Common sense is all that is required:
(1) People of all colors simply should stop playing colored cards. Personally, I am quite tired of the race card being played. It is no more wrong to treat people of different race or creed badly than any other offense. Most of the time, a wrong is done and race is given as a motivation. The wrong is wrong whatever the motivation.
(2) People, whatever their rank, need to be quiet until on a topic until they are well informed.
I've given in few words for free what a mediator might charge $150/h for ... Read Bible Scripture ... it is full of this same advice on personal conduct.
In addition to the possible white-black issue in the Gates matter, there may also be a town-gown issue.
Often there is tension between universities and the communities in which they operate. Harvard professors are generally well-paid, they have the prestige that comes with a lot of formal education and their appointment, they may be somewhat arrogant and accustomed to putting others down: In sum, they are often on the other side of class and cultural divides from local police.
Too bad the lady who called the police didn't recognize her neighbor - this whole dust-up would be a non-issue!
Diane, at 4:24, derides the "majority white Supreme Court" for its decision in Ricci. I assume, then, that she is a big fan of Justice Clarence Thomas. No? What, he's a bigot, too? Guess the only way to satisfy Diane is to have a Supreme Court that is majority black and Left. No wonder she supports Professor Gates.
Still maintain that this incident was 100% avoidable had either party ( ideally both of them) just taken a moment to carefully consider their next words/actions. Police training response is no excuse fo reacting like a jerk to jerkish college prof. Such is the sad nature of person-to-person relationships in America.
The President should have deflected the question at the news conference and moved on. Doesn't he have enuff problems wioth heath care?.
Gates will now get a research grant ($) write a book, go on talk shows and make a bunch more $.
Officer will now go on Fox News along with Ricci and Joe the Plumber.
Al Sharpton will (oops he already has!) shoot off his big mouth into the nearest open microphone, thereby not contributing to the solution one iota.
Intelligent and thoughtful WSJ readers wil offer pithy, snarky comments on web blog.
Mediation would have been a great way to solve this problem.
I'm not sure it's still a great way. Gates' writing about it -- his profession, right? -- and Obama's injecting himself into the situation without any good reason -- can we say, "narcissism"? -- has certainly made mediation far more difficult than it would have been a week ago.
Anonymous - My point exactly. I do not think America will ever get past race - at least not until we are a few more generations away from now. There are just too many people who cannot see beyond it, and far too many others who are making a living exascerbating the whole problem. Until we reach a point where nobody cares whether a candidate is black, white or hispanic, or some combination of the above, some folks will manipulate race for their own benefit. In this particular instance, I think they both overreacted, but I also believe Gates was treated differently because of his race, and I imagine he has had that happen before. Anyhow, the whole thing is a waste of time, because without being there, none of us will ever know for sure, and so it is just being used as one more situation to divide us.
It is my understanding that the officer turned on the mike from his radio and there is a recording of the events. If so, then the thing speaks for itself.
NO - it is you who cannot get past race, and until you can, you will see every situation as black vs. white, thus perpetuating the divide.
I choose to contribute what I can to the situation, and objectively reason through situations. I hope someday, you too can do this.
Oh no you don't. You're not calling this Gatesgates. No. You're not getting away with that. This is a nothing blowup by a tired and perhaps egotistical professor, and it will be forgotten in short order. There is no "gate." Not even for a guy named Gates.
Leon & 3:33, Why are you so persistently blind to the factual basis for whites' "level of distrust of blacks?" If you play dumb long enough, people are much more justified calling you "stupid" than Obama ever will be for labelling the CPD so. Not that you're totally at fault, since none of the real facts came out in Pres. Clinton's travelling roadshow called the "National Dialogue on Race," but to answer your question, chief among those facts is this: the percentage of blacks who commit crime, as much against blacks as against all other races, is much greater than any other race's. If you won't accept that statistical fact, take a stroll thru Detroit, Gary, Cleveland, East St. Louis, Newark, Oakland, Compton, and most of DC to see what blacks have wrought with what was handed to them. You can read Gates' indecipherable ramblings - which make a strong a case for his being an affirmative action hire - and you can talk about poverty and lack of education and every other excuse in the canon of "race consciousness" until the cows come home, but the fact remains - and is just as persistently ignored - that most whites who have actually lived among or been run out of their neighborhoods by blacks distrust them because of their own disappointing experiences with them in their daily, personal lives. That's not prejudice, that's pragmatism. What adds insult to their injury is when others who wouldn't be caught dead in such precincts - like many readers of the WSJ, no doubt - presume to preach to them the virtues of "diversity" and "tolerance," when everything in those whites' experience belies both when it comes to blacks. It ain't pretty, but it's true, and until race-baiting blacks and their apologists recognize it as true and abandon their irresponsible approach things will remain the same.
Blacks and other minorities that don't want to assimilate into the American fabric need to go home--back to wherever they or thier ancestors came from. Racism is dead. Blacks are trying to resucitate a dead horse. Look we have a black man in the Whitehouse and a Black man on the Supreme Court. What more do you all want? This is still a country found on white values, either assimilate and go home. And by the way I'm not a racist I have several co-workers that are black and I get along with them just fime. Why, just the other day we got into a discussion about Obama, and my black co-worker said to me how he's not sure if Obama was even born in the US.
I live in northern Wisconsin. Hardly a person of color in sight. Our police officers give everyone the "look". I have no race card up my sleeve. Guess I will just have to respect the police, LIKE WE ARE SUPPOSE TO!!
When I was completing my studies for my mediation certificates, I mediated a case as part of a proposed procedure for the Dallas Police Department in handling internal affairs and community complaints. This happened to be a case where both parties appeared to people not of their race to be "homogenous." However, somewhere along the way, I had picked up just an inkling that based on the backgrounds of these two people, they would likely view their common situation through different filters.
We had an observer from IAD in the mediation room that day, evaluating whether or not mediation would be a useful procedure. By asking a series of questions to each party, designed to put them in each other's shoes, we were able to reach both a settlement and heartfelt acknowledgements / apologies for the underlying situation.
The Harvard case is likely to be one that would be appropriate for this type of mediation, but it will be tricky.
And anyone who has been involved in a lawsuit, a divorce or other argument knows that there are at least three sides to any story - your story, my story, and the more objective story. We see things through our own filters. It doesn't make the version wrong, just tinted.
obama wusses out again. the 65 year old dude with the cane in his own home arrested by the pigs because he didn't talk right to whitey with the power. real stupid. plain and simple. typical life experience for blacks. and all the white people are so up in arms. give me a break.
too many racists on this blog to believe. they have overstayed their welcome? what? they really rolled out the welcome mat when the slave ships landed. you are an idiot and a racist. bonus points for you. herb, you may take the cake other than the people asserting there is no racism in the u.s. and all of us have to respect cops. right. what law says this guy cannot say exactly what he said to the cops. would expect nothing but these comments from you little eichmanns.
the acoustics in his kitchen weren't right? what a joke. little eichmanns, ever heard of the first amendment? guess not.
@Andy A
I agree, in some instances, that may be the case - of course, each situation should be examined. But that should not bear on this situation and these facts. The facts of these events are dictated, not by history or other events, but what actually happened between these people. Period.
dude with the comment -- "This is still a country found on white values, either assimilate and go home. And by the way I'm not a racist I have several co-workers that are black and I get along with them just fime." nuff said.
Obama is a wuss. He's soft on terror and a weak president. Thr truth will come out! IT's not because he's half-white but because he's half-black. Blacks are some of the most spoiled and immature people on earth. They cannot function at a high intellectual level because they are biologically inferior to whites. Note how they score lower on standardized and IQ tests, drop out whenver the going gets tough--high school drop out rates, and always advocating for other factors and emotional intelligence. Please, blacks need to do stop looking for handouts and thinking that the government owes them something. Most are so poor they haven't paid enough into the system to be entitiled to any benefits. Get an honest job, pay taxes, and then may be you can be entitled to something!
@who is they?
Your own prejudices and anger have blinded you. Certainly, there are people on this blog who are radicals - on BOTH SIDES. But it is obvious to me, that you are one of them.
@racist pigs
I am familiar with the first amendment, but it doesn't appear to me that you are. Please elaborate your thoughts, staying within the confines of the supreme court's interpretation of the first amendment, of course.
I'd thank you for illustrating my points, "who is they," but it's nothing to be thanked or thankful for.
'Oh no you don't. You're not calling this Gatesgates. No. You're not getting away with that. This is a nothing blowup by a tired and perhaps egotistical professor, and it will be forgotten in short order. There is no "gate." Not even for a guy named Gates.'
That would have been true.
But Obama for some reason decided to stick his dumb nose into it.
actually herb, it was really "That's right" illustrated your points very well -- "[Blacks] cannot function at a high intellectual level because they are biologically inferior to whites." anything else you got to say, white boy?
downtrodden whitey from northern wisconsin -- the reason the cops are giving you the "look" is because they know you have a meth lab in your station wagon. sort of paranoid, dude? quit hitting on your own supply.
can't deal with the non-racist comments, unh. don't want to upset your normal wsj racist readers. got it;
Why yes, grand wizard, since you asked: please don't put words in my mouth, conflate my own points with others' or resort to name-calling. Just because you can't handle the facts and argue from them, that's no reason to emulate Obama by aping him.
Anyone who thinks that whites are treated by the police any better than blacks are treated is a moron. This incident flushes the real Obama out. Stereotypical angry shoot from the hip black American.
Obama was supposed to be a President who took us beyond race. But that was just a smokescreen to get white votes and get elected. Once in office, he selects Sotomayor from a slate of six -- most of whom were latino and none of whom were white males. So he excluded white males from the pool. Not exactly out to case a wide net and put the best and the brightest on the Supreme Court. We end up with Sotomayor, who is a very undistinguished nominee. Then the Gates thing happens and he can't resist calling the police officer's handling of the matter stupid, even while admitting that he doesn't know the facts. And then he has to apologize to the officer when he sees that the officer has the backing of lots of minority cops. "Post-racial presidency"? Quite the opposite. No wonder all of this years in Rev. Wright's church didn't bother him. This fixation on race is really a slap in the face of all of those voters who voted for him on the basis of his "post-racial" rhetoric. This man has lots of good rhetoric . . . and little else that equips him to properly lead this country.
What happened was unfortunate but the Presidents comments were thoughtless, at best, and unworthy of the office. His later response - to suggest that he should have "calibrated" the original statement is beyond the pale. He uses words to lead and we need to question his leadership and the direction of his leadership. How can he be the chief law enforcement officer and refer to his "staff" as stupid??? So much for "bring us together". Why not confess to having made a mistake? Yes, a simple mistake.
If you read the police report, there's no room for criticism of the police officer. He responded to a neighbor's call that someone was breaking into Gates' house. In fact, Gates later said his door was broken because of a prior break-in. The cop asked Gates for ID, and he let loose with abusive charges of "racist cop," like another Obama friend, Jeremiah Wright. These Friends of Obama remind me of the John Birch Society, looking for communists under every bed, except the current crop is paranoid about "racists." Obama should be ashamed of himself for cheering them on.
Obama has once again aligned himself with a rasist black man and showed the country where he really stands. It's uncomfortable for the country to accept but that is who Barack Obama is. He has many radical associates and his press concealed history shows it if people look at his actions past and present. Double talk won't fix the problem and the tone has been set for a racial devide in this country because the race card has more than worn out it's welcome in the eyes of most whites that have been pursecuted by it in the name of delivering special rights and priviledges to those with a darker skin tone. The NAACP and militant minorities have now pushed to the point that white Americans have said that is quite enough. It's a dirty fight when the race card is waved for advantage in any situation and white America will say that's not going to play any more. This is situation that will present itself whenever Obama speaks without his telepromter putting the words in his mouth. Reverend Wright or Obama speaking speaking this man will divide this country and put it security at risk within and abroad.
reckoning push that will show that
Gates was totally in the wrong. There's nothing to mediate. He owes the cop an appology, plus reasonable financial compenstion for having his life messed up on the national stage. Gates likely will make hundreds of thousands of dollars on the speaking circuit because of this, so it's only right for him to give it all to the cop who was just doing his job.
to anonymous pompous ass at 6:38 -- your "familiarity" with the 1st A. and high court holdings in this area is impressive. may i suggest you begin with houston v. hill, 482 u.s. 451 (1987). can you read?
Gates is a tool, and made a horse's behind of himself. The cop was just doing his job - Gates should be glad the cop was diligently trying to make sure the house was not being robbed. What was obvious to Gates, wasn't obvious to the cop, especially if his Drivers' License had a different address.
I am tired of privileged ivy asshats thinking the rules don't apply to them, whether they're white, black or lavender.
Obambi, of course, good disciple of Rev. Wright, was all over this like (pardon the phrase) white on rice. He's one bad apple, with a chip in his shoulder the size of his ears.
your words, dude
"....the factual basis for whites' "level of distrust of blacks?" : the percentage of blacks who commit crime, as much against blacks as against all other races, is much greater than any other race's."
"If you won't accept that statistical fact, take a stroll thru Detroit, Gary, Cleveland, East St. Louis, Newark, Oakland, Compton, and most of DC to see what blacks have wrought with what was handed to them."
".... Gates' indecipherable ramblings - which make a strong a case for his being an affirmative action hire...."
"... the fact remains - and is just as persistently ignored - that most whites who have actually lived among or been run out of their neighborhoods by blacks distrust them because of their own disappointing experiences with them in their daily, personal lives. That's not prejudice, that's pragmatism."
nuff said.
Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Gates needs to go to sensitivity classes.
dude, more of your own words:
"....that's no reason to emulate Obama by aping him."
maybe you can work the word banana into your next post.
oh, drats, that was white people.
drats, again, that was white people
@do your own research, tool
I'm glad you identify yourself as a tool (see its funny because your identity goes in that box) I can read. If you believe the holding in that case applies here...oh boy. The conversation is indeed over because no one is claiming the law at issue here is overly broad or vague. Before you google again, let me help you out -- this law is not unconstitutional. Every municipality in the country has the same law, phrase exactly the same. Speech, while protected, is not absolute. Now, you are saying the application of the law is at issue - then the case you cite is about as relevant as race was to the events the occurred. none. Feel free to try again though, find a case were a valid law was unconstitutionally applied. I even helped you out.
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dickless @ 9:08 -- you should get back to your document review.
In a 1976 decision, Commonwealth v. Richards, 369 Mass. 443, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that the First Amendment prevents application of the disorderly conduct law to language and expressive conduct, even when it is offensive and abusive. The one exception would be language that falls outside the protection of the First Amendment, "fighting words which by their very utterance tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
Finally, a comment that deals only with the law. No one here even wonders why his next door neighbor called the cops on Gates. Usually you recognize your next door neighbor, especially one who walks with a cane and is a world famous historian. This incident is another Joe the Plumber type news event. We will see how it plays out.
To the above comment, I have not seen the person who called the police identified as the next door neighbor.
None of you idiots were there!
And, on top of all this, the media has this so stirred up that muddy water would seem crystal clear in comparison.
So take your comments and go sit in the corner.
It's time all of this stupid nation took a great big time out.
I stand by the facts and my opinions based on them. Predictably, none have demonstrably challenged the former, however you may disagree with the latter. (Quotation =/= refutation.) As for the letters, I refuse to dumb down the English language by avoiding certain phrases that might be interpreted as racist, especially by those ever alert to do so. Recall the case of DC Councilman David Catania, taken to task by the race baiters several years ago for using the word "niggardly" in speech. The hot-headed ignorami who criticized him didn't even know the meaning of the word, much like, I suspect, those who don't know the difference between "emulating" and "aping" - or, for that matter, a banana and a watermelon.
I would like to know what would have been the honest reaction of the whites and of the press , if the situation would have been reversed, involving a prominent white professor confronted by black policemen .
How many high profile cases can you cite that has involved black policemen against white persons ?
@Anonymous, 6:56am
I'll take that as a concession. I dont review documents, that would be strike two.
@Does Mass. Authority Count?
Again, is your argument that the law under which Gates was arrest is unconstitutional, or that the officer applied a constitutional law, in an unconstitutional manner? These are two very different arguments. The case you cite makes "fighting words statutes" unconstitutional. The US Supreme Court has held the same. But, this says nothing about if a law is applied in an unconstitutional manner. In short, I really don't understand what First Amendment issue there might be - is the law bad? was it misapplied? What is your argument? If you don't know the difference, I have to ask you to respectfully ask that you stop invoking the Constitution -- because you don't really understand what you are saying.
Arrest that man, he's being decidedly uncivil.
Kidding aside, I still don't think "Yo Mama" provides sufficient Apparent Present Ability to warrant not asking a Judge, and it's Cambridge there was probably one in the crowd.
8:02 am - Question time over, the answer booth is closed. Most of the posters here make up the stuff as they go along. In New York State, disorderly conduct is a violation, not a crime. If you have a valid ID when arrested for disorderly conduct, you get a desk appearance ticket, you are not run through the system, mugshots, fingerprints and all. When asked for an ID entering a private residence, NYPD plainclothes and uniformed officers are supposed to show their official photo ID unless there are exigent circumstances. The amount of money that the Cambridge police department spent on this matter, including a fully staffed press conference, must mean they have money to burn. Reading some of these comments here reminds me of another comment someone made, about plenty of people cheering Hitler. Gates may have acted bizarre, but how would a normal person feel coming back from a long trip to find his home entrnce doorlock jimmied and then a cop comes tromping in without permission. I wonder if Crowley had his gun out when he barged in. The United States, the land of the free. Unless you are a black guy living in a nice house near Harvard.
Pretty Stupid!
Arrest some craggy old curmudgeon on a DOC/Resist/Battery LEO Trifecta. The guy had a cane, he's not gonna last 1 Round in the Bounce House at the Station.
Stick to hassling young punks who'll actually put up their fists to protect their Rights, da Prez don't got day backs.
The Law is fairly well settled, From the 70's for Pete's sake. (Except fo' the Yo Mama "threat" - If those can even be fighting words in Cambridge, this ain't Compton where it might get you killed!?!)
On Topic - You expect to mediate this Factual chasm?
That sounds like a snow job of cover for someone.
Read: The PC - http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/07/23/0498.001.pdf
Gates' statement - http://www.theroot.com/views/lawyers-statement-arrest-henry-louis-gates-jr
and the Supreme Court - http://supreme.justia.com/us/414/14/case.html
The Law is fairly well settled, From the 70's for Pete's sake. (Except fo' the Yo Mama "threat" - If those can even be fighting words in Cambridge, this ain't Compton where it might get you killed!?!)
On Topic - You expect to mediate this Factual chasm?
That sounds like a snow job of cover for someone.
Read: The PC - (can't post links?)
Gates' statement - (can't post links?)
and the Supreme Court - 414 us 14
Never ask a cop to step outside?
Wouldn't the cop want Gates to call a Judge?
Complying with the rule would alleviate the need for an exception.
Dr. Raymond Stantz,
What law? Settled in which way?
Are you asserting the law itself is unconstitutional? What is the MA law? I'm assuming since such fighting words laws have been found unconstitutional, but disorderly conduct laws are prevalent, that there's some distinction to be made between the modern disorderly conduct laws and the fight words statutes. I haven't done the research though.
The racial issue has changed from merely seeking equality to seeking special privilege and exception. So now some are "more equal" than others based solely on skin color.
Officer Crowley screwed up.
The Harvard Professor should have been cuffed immediately when he refused to comply with the officer's request to identify himself. If he advance with his cane in a belligerent manner he should have been shot or tazed.
Crowley walked into an unknown situation and allowed his personal security to be compromised. He could have very well been killed if instead of a Race baiting antagonist he actually walked in on two burglary suspects. He only had one man in front of him. The burglary report said TWO MEN WERE ATTEMPTING TO BREAK IN. So in the name of "political correctness" he jeopardizes his life to deal with an arrogant SOB NOT KNOWING WHERE THE SECOND MAN IS OR IF THERE ARE TWO OTHER MEN SOMEWHERE . Gates refusal to answer the officer's questions of "is there anyone here with you". Gates refusal to answer because he is "A BLACK man in AMERICA" again places Crowley, all the officers rushing in to back up officer Crowley (some were even black), and the public at large in further danger. It also escalates every officer's threat level. PEOPLE THIS IS AN INEXCUSABLE SITUATION!! AND THINGS CAN GO VERY BAD EXTREMELY QUICKLY.
Here are a few situations that could have come from this :
1) Second man (Gates driver) appears coming from side of house as backup arrives. He is carrying unknown object and approaching Crowley. He also refuses to comply because he is a black man in America. We read the headlines of another black man shot by police. The "race baiters" scream RACISM!!
2) There are actually two unknown burglars, with Crowley walking away from" the black man in America" tirade we read of Professor Gates being killed sometime after police investigated a possible break-in. The "race baiters" scream RACISM!!!
3) Unrelated (to this squabble) people are injured by a speeding police car in a motor vehicle accident.
If Gate's complies the officer assures his safety and Gate's safety .....everybody walks away feeling ok.
I have found the debates and public dialogue on this arrest very, very frustrating.
The fact is, the police action may have had less to do with race than Prof. Gates knows, though it had a lot to do with race for him, understandably. Racial motivation on the part of police in this case is speculation.
What we know, rather than what we might speculate, is provocative and has been begging for public debate for so long, and it is this:
--It is against best practices to make unnecessary arrests. We pretty much know this was an unnecessary arrest. Police culture in this country is diametrically opposed to those best practices and it is a huge problem.
--Arrests are extremely harmful to people. even non-conviction arrests have a very serious, lifelong impact on people. The fact that Prof. Gates is well known and his story has been covered widely will help him avoid the worst of those consequences.
-- Unnecessary arrests like this are epidemic in this country and cut across race lines, even more than they do class lines.
-- they are linked to a police culture and an American psyche that more than supports it -- it has an unquenchable appetite for it.
--It is a grave problem that is only worsening with intense record-keeping and wide, almost subliminal hankering for police aggression. We have done nothing but encourage police to demand fear, trembling and cowering in deference towards them at the scene of anything. They have come to think that anything less is an affront and arrest on it. We praise and encourage them to believe that they must arrest if their egos are bruised.
-- Non-conviction arrests of the actually innocent increase the risk of rearrest for those people, because of the law enforcement records we keep that prejudice officers towards subjects when they pull up a past non-conviction arrest record on nationwide databases on their patrol car laptops.
-- this actually puts into motion a process of criminalization, as a second non-conviction arrest is less plausible to the average person who is ignorant of how easily this process gets rolling. It literally ruins lives...
-- The supreme court has given carte blanche to police over the past 20 or 30 years.
- What bothers me so intensely about trying to work with Blacks on reform in criminal justice is that I can't seem to convince leaders in conversations with them that we need to focus the dialogue on these issues and that racial profiling is just a subset of them. Yet, the best chance for reform will rise from the Black community. I have been trying in vain to introduce the Black community to this bridge to a platform that has real muscle to make real change.
Instead, Prof Gates is embarking on a PBS show about racial profiling. To stop racial profiling, we have to address the underlying conditions. It is understandable -- he is not immersed in criminal justice issues full time as some of us are. I almost wish they had arrested someone who was.
I think the criticism of Obama in this is off. He oversees the executive branch, obviously, of which the DOJ is part. The DOJ takes a lot of positions on best practices and is supposed to enforce civil rights laws against police who violate them. The DOJ has long been criticized for being anemic in that department.
The overkill by police in making unnecessary arrests is standard operating procedure in police departments across the country. This was not some fluke -- it was absolutely what police do. It is a shock to them that in the last week that maybe they aren't supposed to. A comment from the president who oversees the DOJ, which establishes best practices, which is supposed to set the standard, is LONG overdue. When I heard his comment, my first thought was that it was about time.
Think about it -- in some states you can not get a teaching license if you have a non-conviction arrest. There are dozens of legal uses of non-conviction arrests in this country and they have only increased in recent years. Some states have erased records -- they aren't erased, they are segregated. They are permanent. They never ever ever go away.
Is it really OK that we won't abandon this police demagoguery? Police have far more responsibility to protect the liberties and opportunities of the people they police and interact with.
Try adopting a kid with a non-conviction arrest.
Police have a responsibility -- enough with this American orgy with their precious police. I expect my president to put a lid on this excess and have expected it, in vain, all my life. I am glad Obama said it.
Obama said it was a stupid arrest because it was, and it was for all these reasons and a hundred more. The dreams and aspirations, the right to pursue happiness in this country, is not some joke. If readers here, don't think even misdemeanor, non-conviction arrests can rob you of all of that, look up the laws on just the legal uses of them, never mind the rampant illegal use of those records..
Tired of all this back and forth. accomplishing nada.
Does anyone have anything positive to say? Do you think we will learn anything constructive from this to become a more united nation?
Anon -
You are (half) of the problem in this controversy. Nothing will ever improve unless you objectively analyze the issue at hand - instead of making sweeping generalizations. The criticism of the President is that he made the statements without a full understanding or even superficial awareness of the problem. You also appear to have the same issue. Here's a good rule of thumb - when the police come to you and ask for your ID, if you had just broken into your own home, explain the situation and give them the ID before accusing them of being racist.
Did you have the same respect for DOJ policies when g.w. bush was in office?
"Ms. Whalen, who called on her cellphone from in front of the professor's home, stayed until the police arrived. A report filed by the arresting officer, Sgt. James M. Crowley, said she told him she had seen "what appeared to be two black males with backpacks" on the porch of the home.
Police officials have stood by the report in interviews, but on Monday, Ms. Whalen's lawyer said she had never mentioned race to Sergeant Crowley.
She didn't speak to Sergeant Crowley at the scene except to say, 'I'm the one who called,' " said the lawyer, Wendy J. Murphy. "And he said, 'Wait right there,' and walked into the house. She never used the word black and never said the word backpacks to anyone."
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Cambridge Police Profiling Still A Grim Reality for Harvard Faculty @$$holes
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When I first learned of the arrest of my colleague Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates after he stood up to the fascist jackboots of a declasse, ill-educated Cambridge police officer, I was of course angered -- but scarcely shocked. L'Affaire Gates simply aired, in public, the dirty 100-thread-count table linen of an American culture where Harvard faculty @$$holes still face a daily struggle against profiling, abuse, and insolence.
It will come as no surprise that Skip's arrest was the talk of the D-bag Room at the Harvard Faculty Club last Friday. I and a group of colleagues had assembled for our weekly lunch; I opted for their competently-prepared Ahi Tuna Tartare and an amusing glass of '05 Hospices de Beaune Premier Cru Cuvee Cyrot-Chaudron. I had noticed that the Franz Fanon Memorial Booth -- Skip's long-reserved lunch spot -- was uncharacteristically empty, and asked our waiter Sergio for an explanation.
"Professor Skeep, he no is come today," said Sergio. "I tink he is in the jail."
Our table exchanged knowing glances, for we knew immediately that Skip was only the latest victim of a system that singles out the Harvard faculty @$$hole for stigmatization and unequal justice. It is a system that all of us knew too well, and provided an opportunity for an open conversation about our shared experiences as Harvard faculty @$$holes in America while waiting for Sergio to bring the dessert cart.
One after one came the cascade of stark stories: the rolled eyes of our department secretaries. The Spanish language mockery of our office janitors. The foul gestures of drunken strap-hanging Red Sox lumpenproles aboard the MBTA. The frequent police stops on the highway to Cape Ann and Martha's Vineyard for "Volvoing While @$$hole." And then there are the insulting media stereotypes, where we are routinely caricatured as pompous, effete, self-important, irrelevant elitists. All, I might add, by a motley collection of lowbrow inferiors, few of whom have ever published in a peer-reviewed journal. Let alone edit one.
Sometimes it even comes at the hand of self-styled "peers" from D-list state ampersand institutions. One colleague recounted the tale of his restroom confrontation with a Texas A&M professor at a national academic conference last year. After relieving themselves at adjacent urinals, my colleague noticed the oaf leaving hastily for the plenary session and decided to gently point out his hygienic forgetfulness. "A Harvard man washes his hands after urinating," he said. "And an Aggie don't pi$$ all over his hands, @$$hole," came the reply.
A female colleague from the English department recalled a recent incident along the Charles River jogging path during her regular morning run. A confused passer-by rudely interrupted her progress and requested directions, as if my colleague were some sort of lowly campus guide or untenured adjunct. "Where does this street go to?" she demanded. Naturally, my colleague took the opportunity to correct her, noting that "at Harvard we do not end our sentences in prepositions."
"Okay, Where does this street go to, @$$hole?" barked the interloper. Needless to say, my colleague's daily morning runs have since been replaced with tear-filled visits to the Faculty @$$hole Self Esteem Counseling Center.
For untold hundreds of Harvard faculty @$$holes such indignities are, sadly, still part and parcel of being "The Other." As Associate Director of the School of Harvard Faculty @$$hole Studies, I have worked to institute policies to insure that Harvard maintains a nurturing environment for all @$$holes in our community, be they faculty, students, or alumni. Some progress has been made, such as Harvard's mandatory sensitivity and deference training program for all incoming fresh@$$holes. But such internal programs do little to address the impertinence and discrimination we still face outside campus. Some have suggested that we involve the Cambridge Police Department in an educational outreach program, but in my experience the CPD is among the worst offenders.
Case in point: last winter I was slated to deliver the keynote address for an intradepartmental @$$hole colloquium at Lowell House. Running late, I temporarily parked along Plympton. As I emerged from my Audi, I discovered that I had captured the unwelcome attention of a CPD officer. "Hey Buddy, is that your car?" he barked.
"Why? Because I'm a Harvard faculty @$$hole in America?" I cleverly retorted.
"No @$$hole, because this is a snow route and you can't double park here," he sneered, concocting a flimsy excuse for his continued harassment. "You have to move it now."
"That's Professor @$$hole to you, you fascist townie," I explained, tossing him the Audi's remote-start key. "Need a valet? Call your mother at the brothel."
It doesn't take an experienced @$$hole rights activist to tell you what happened next: my Audi was on its way to impound while I rode to the Cambridge Police Station in the unheated vinyl rear seat of Bull Conner's squad car. To add insult to injury, the desk officer refused my request for a dignified background bookshelf for my booking photos.
Thankfully the Constitution still allows even Harvard @$$holes a bare modicum of human rights, so I used my allotted phone call to alert the Dean and the Faculty Grievance Committee to my plight. In those 35 excruciating minutes I wasted away waiting in that stark cell, I wrote the opening chapter of "Letters From a Cambridge Jail," my forthcoming scholarly magnum opus on the grim legacy of @$$hole oppression in America.
Eventually my arrest record was expunged and I agreed to meet the loathsome arresting officer at President Faust's office for a conciliatory off-record "beer chat." As the University Counsel had predicted, the lure of free limitless alcohol proved irresistible to the simpleminded Irishman, and he was soon happily signing confessions of guilt and abject apologies. Still, even after he was fired, I was left to pick up the pieces of my shattered psyche.
As I recounted the details of that unpleasant encounter to my colleagues, a few wondered aloud if we were not better served by changing the system gradually. Then our eyes turned to the stately historic portraits of the Harvard faculty @$$holes who came before us, hanging in silent judgment on the D-bag Room walls; Schlessinger, Galbraith, Leary, Cornel West, Alan Dershowitz, Theodore Kaczynski. Would these great @$$holes have accepted complicit silence in the face of crude police insolence? How will we be remembered by future generations of Harvard faculty @$$holes who will battle future generations of Cambridge police and parking enforcement officials? Where is Sergio with the damned dessert cart?
Some suggest that the election of President Obama proves that America's prejudice against Harvard @$$holes is a quaint relic of the past. But for those of us who live with it every day, the evidence shows the opposite. And it isn't just Harvard @$$holes suffering the cold, rude hand of uppity townie privilege. Other, if less endowed, @$$hole faculties suffer similar oppression; in the southern Lacrosse fields of Duke, in the west coast arugula farms of Stanford, at Northwestern, where ever Northwestern is.
No, we must not be silent. That is why I have used a portion of my class action windfall against the Cambridge Police department to produce a shocking new documentary film, "@$$hole Like Me," detailing the courageous plight of the tenured Sphincter-American community. It premiers this Friday at the Science Center. Get your tickets now -- with free beer on tap, demand will be high!
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Flores, 24, is a filmmaker who grew up in San Diego (Blink are from nearby Poway, California) idolizing the music and antics of Mark, Tom and Travis, and at the beginning of the year — after a viewing of 2005 docu-drama "Lords Of Dogtown" — he decided that someone should make a movie about the band's early days. And that someone should be him.
"I saw that movie and I thought, 'The guys in Blink deserve a movie like that about them,' " Flores told MTV News. "They have an awesome life, and they're one of my favorite bands. So the idea got in my head, and over the summer — right around the time of the Blink reunion tour — my friends and I started writing a script about their early days."
Called "Blink," the film follows the adventures of Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and original drummer Scott Raynor as they start a band (in DeLonge's garage), begin playing shows and slowly earn a fanbase. It also documents their struggles — including Raynor's exit in 1998 — and ends with DeLonge and Hoppus meeting Travis Barker, forming the Blink that millions of fans know and love today.
Determined to make the film as accurate as possible, Flores and his friends have spent the majority of the year interviewing fans who were at Blink's early shows, and they count Mark's sister Anne's 2001 band bio Tales From Beneath Your Mom as inspiration for the movie. They also began calling Blink-182's management company, with the hopes of securing the rights to a few early songs for the film. So far, no luck.
"We've been trying to get in touch with their management, or even the guys in Blink, because we'd like to use their songs in the movie," Flores said. "Or maybe we could even get the guys to do a cameo in the film."
(MTV News' attempts to reach Blink-182's management for comment proved unsuccessful by press time.)
Even if Flores doesn't get Blink's blessing, he's still planning to make the movie ("I guess we'll just try not to show any Blink songs in it," he said), and, as such, he's begun the casting process, placing ads on Craigslist in the hopes of rounding out the cast. Everything was going swimmingly until one of those ads ended up being linked to on AbsolutePunk.net, which suddenly turned his little movie into very big news and drew the ire of Blink fans everywhere.
"We've been getting a lot of angry e-mails, people asking me why we're making a movie, if the guys in Blink are still alive or saying we're going around trying to make up history, since we weren't there at the beginning," Flores said. "I try to tell them that I'm a Blink fan, and I'm trying my best not to f— up history. We've been getting help from a lot of fans who were there at the beginning. We want to do this right."
So, armed with some promising headshots ("We've gotten a lot of Marks, and we're close to casting one") and a $55,000 budget, Flores is hoping to do just that. The plan is to start filming "Blink" in April, and Flores and his crew are busy scouting locations. They're also not giving up hope of securing a Blink song or two, or maybe even that elusive cameo — something Hoppus didn't seem opposed to when MTV News contacted him about the film on Monday (December 7), even if he had no idea what we were talking about when we asked him.
"No, I didn't know anything about the movie. I wonder how it pays?" Hoppus wrote in an e-mail. "Should I try out for the part of Tom?"
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COTTON GIN, TEXAS. Cotton Gin, on Farm Road 1366 twelve miles west of Fairfield in western Freestone County, was established in 1848 near the site of a mule-powered cotton gin built by Dr. James S. Wills. Wills constructed the first store in the community and served as postmaster when the post office was established in 1851. The 1860 census reported that the town had 508 residents. By the 1870s it had a dozen stores, four churches, and a weekly newspaper, the Herald. Many residents moved to nearby Mexia when the Houston and Texas Central Railway bypassed Cotton Gin in 1872. The community's population continued to decline as cotton production and ginning decreased in the county. The town had a population of 206 in 1904, and its post office was discontinued four years later. Cotton Gin reported a population of seventy-five from 1945 to about 1960 and sixty by 1964. Its population had dropped to twenty-eight by 1968 and continued to be reported at that level through 2000.
Freestone County Historical Commission, History of Freestone County, Texas (Fairfield, Texas, 1978).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Timothy Palmer, "COTTON GIN, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnc99), accessed November 25, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Today's technology allows us to capture and share each fleeting moment of our lives with the whole wide world. Rarely do we take the time to slow down, and capture that special "family time".
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Nothing like gaining inspiration to kick start the New Year! We did just that at Karl Bratby Photography in Nottingham recently. In the business world this is known as Continuous Professional Development. At Yours Truly Photography we like to call it 'get out of the studio for the day and have a laugh with other photographers'. There is, however, a very serious side to such days out as well. Both Jools and I feel it it vital to interact with other like minded photographers. Sharing knowledge and experiences with people who care about their art keeps us at the top of our game.
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A year ago Jools and I were contemplating the next twelve months and what they would bring. This blog post, of a personal and professional nature, will attempt to give you a brief insight into Yours Truly Photography during 2014, and is a celebration of all that happened to us. Firstly, however, a massive thank you to all our clients, friends, and last, but not least, our respective families for their never wavering support. A special mention must go to Joanne Maltby of Wetherby Hour for her tireless championing of Yours Truly Photography during 2014.
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Portraits have been a major feature of our portfolio this year. Jools and I are amazed and delighted at the importance of photography nowadays. Everyone has access to a camera. Imagery has never been so prominent in everyday life. Instant editing improves a picture which can then be posted online at the click of a button for everyone to view. Fantastic! What we do is slightly different. Our ethos is simple – at Yours Truly Photography special moments in time are created that will last a lifetime and more. Moments that will make you laugh, make you cry and give you memories of that ever so special occasion. Our images are then displayed using the best local suppliers – such as Frame Abel and Flamboyant Creations – whose standards mirror our own to create finished pieces beyond your expectation.
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Weddings, ah, weddings. What can you say about this very specialist area of photography. Our aim has always been to tell the story of the day with a Yours Truly twist. Two photographers working hand in glove creating magical memories of the one day you will never want to forget. 2014 has seen us doing what we do best in locations as far apart as a stunning chateau in Provence through to the equally beautiful Priory Cottages on a Winter's day in Yorkshire. Jools and I have laughed and cried in equal measure during these highly emotional events.
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Jools and I were very fortunate to be asked to photograph a number of shows and press calls at York Theatre Royal and West Yorkshire Playhouse during 2014. Theatrical productions were made for our bold, colourful style! Though we have to work under pressure to tight schedules and exacting standards, Jools and I have enjoyed every second of this exciting new adventure! Seeing our images featured in The Guardian, The Independent and The Stage amongst others were just some of the year's many highlights.
Now there's cute, and there's CUTE! Recent visitors to the Yours Truly studio were the lovely Kidner family. And whilst mum and dad were cute, daughter Gracie was CUTE!
The wonderful Yorkshire weather smiled down on us again, and we spent a marvellous couple of hours in the company of this tremendous trio.
There's so much for a young child to explore in and around the studio. Gracie literally had a field day!
Look at those eyes. Amazing!
Her favourite of all the animals here was definitely the chickens. Gracie was absolutely captivated by them.
Jools and I particularly love the edit on the shot of Gracie looking at our fair, feathered friends. It has a very nostalgic feel to it.
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Mum and dad got in the action as well. I think Jools was running around after Gracie while I took this shot.
We often experiment with our editing. It gives shots a different feel, and provides people with even more choice.
Then it was back in the studio for some stunning indoor shots.
It was smile after smile with Gracie. She loved having these portraits taken with her favourite cuddly toy. It's a pig – though I kept calling it a rabbit!
Love this family portrait!
Jools and I always try to do a classic type of portrait. Gracie was perfect for this type of image.
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A senior U-S senator says the Central Intelligence Agency has been illegally searching computers of the staff and members involved in a probe into a C-I-A interrogation program. Dianne Feinstein has expressed concern that the C-I-A's search may well have violated the separation of powers' principles embodied in the United States Constitution. The CIA has denied it has spied on the Senate. The U-S intelligence agencies-- particularly the National Security Agency, the NSA have already been accused of espionage activities against U-S citizens. This has drawn condemnation from rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union.


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In the winter you want to change to more of an "ointment" moisturizer that's oil-based, rather than water-based, as the oil will create a protective layer on the skin that retains more moisture than a cream or lotion. (Hint: Many lotions labeled as "night creams" are oil-based.)
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Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist who has spent years documenting racist state violence and creating survival strategies to cope with current realities. She works full-time doing street-based outreach and workplace visits with sex workers at Stella; doing harm-reduction, rights-based education and accompaniements surrounding health, anti-violence, and empowerment. She is very active on many levels in the realm of public education, including international, national and local media, panels, and trainings for health and social service providers on the harms created by systemic racism, criminal laws and stigma as they affect sex workers' lives. She has debated this topic on national television as well as presenting for Stella at the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights at Parliament Hill. She is particularly interested in in how sex-trafficking discourse intersects with issue of migrants rights, indigenous rights, and sex workers rights.
A harsh critic of systemic racism in all of its forms, she has been involved with several migrant justice initiatives over the years, as well as being involved grassroots organizing against police killings, helping co-found Montreal's Justice for Victims of Police Killings, who work alongside several families of victims of police killings to demand an end to police violence and impunity. She helped found Project X, a youth-empowerment project to educate black youth about their rights vis-a-vis the police, in a 'know your rights' format, including co-authoring rights guide entitled "Refuse to Be Abused…Using the Law to Fight Back".
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KaBOOM! Comics, formerly known as Boom! Kids, is the all-ages imprint of Boom! Studios. It started out publishing comic books based on licenses from Disney and Pixar, including stories from Disney Italia which were previously only available in Europe. They've since lost the Disney licenses after the Disney buyout of Marvel Comics, which lead to the abrupt cancellation of Pixar and The Muppets and two of The Disney Afternoon series being cut short. But they are now gaining new licenses, such as the contemporary Cartoon Network stable (IDW Publishing has the rights to the Cartoon Cartoons-era shows), while the Pixar and Muppet material is being reprinted by Marvel and stories from those series might possibly be continued down the line.
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- Over the Garden Wall
- Regular Show
- Steven Universe
- Uncle Grandpa
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- Darkwing Duck
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- Mickey Mouse & Friends
- Wizards of Mickey, later spun off into its own title
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