Harvard Professors Arrest

There are racial charges flying around in the aftermath of the arrest of Professor Gates in Harvard. That may be the case but possibly not the way the media reports it. It had better be acknowledged that blacks are sometimes showing racial bias to condemn whites. The arresting officer wrote in his report that he asked Gates to step outside the house to which Gates responded "Why, because I'm a black man in America?"

That can well be a racial judgement against whites. To jump to the conclusion that race is involved because he was asked to step outside his home may (I stress the word may) reflect bias on the part of Gates.

There is the possible scenario that someone had indeed broken into Professor Gates home and was inside with a weapon trained on the professor or if not directly threatening the professor, the thief might be hiding somewhere on the premises. Seems like that would be good police work to ask him to come outside...

So why did a black man automatically assume the request was racial inspired if we wasn't himself racist? There is probably much more to the situation but the way the media will handle this will not reflect these comments.