Once again the citizens of the United States have failed to live up to the ideals of our founders. Acclaimed African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. received the very opposite of a warm welcome upon returning from a trip to China last week. The director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, Gates was arrested within his own home for allegations of 'disorderly conduct.' A Cambride, MA police officer took Gates into custody after arriving at the house and finding him in the foyer. He had arrived at the premesis after a neighbor reported a break in at the home. Given Gates stature in the African-American and scholarly community, many are up in arms over his arrest and the use of racial profiling used by the officer. Whats more, the Cambridge police department issued a statement noting that the arrest was ''regretable''. In closing, Gates was quoted as noting,''The only black people that truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.''
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