Michael Eric Dyson : Gates is an eminent intellectual and Harvard professor . He has written a book on the history of science, The Science Wars ( which I have not read ). He says police are particularly sensitive to questioning from people of color . Dyson : Obama must renew his pledge to eliminate racial profiling .
Michael Eric Dyson : Gates is an eminent intellectual and Harvard professor . He says Gates ' arrest in Cambridge shows that U.S. still grapples with racism . He says police are particularly sensitive to questioning from people of color . Dyson : Obama must renew his pledge to eliminate racial profiling .