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Originally Posted by Shawnski
I find it interesting that previously posted information indicates Crowley was the person trying to save a black basketball star by giving him mouth to mouth recessitation a couple decades ago (but is being accused of rasicm) yet a Harvard professor showed he is willing to play a race card ON A FREAKIN' YALE APPLICATION. There is in my mind, NO excuse for that one. If anything, it shows that this very brilliant individual is capable of using a race card to put people in a "Damned if I do, Damned if I don't" scenario. Not cool in my books.
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That is the most interesting part of what you had to say I think. So you submit an application with an obvious shot at white people, with the knowledge that if they turn you down, you could turn it into a huge racial event in the media. Either way, you are putting the Yale people in a terrible spot. Maybe he wasn't qualified to enter Yale, but what do you do when you get a guy acting like a buffoon on his application?
I really don't understand how throughout this entire thread, there are still people slamming the police. There is absolutely nothing to suggest racism or racial profiling played a role in his actions whatsoever. This was another damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario for the police.
I bet looking back, Crowley wishes he could have just said "screw it" and walked away without arresting Gates. His character has gotten thoroughly thrashed in the media, on the Internet, and by the freaking President. It has even come out that he is a highly respected educator on racial equality, but none of that has mattered.