SEPERATED AT BIRTH
Maybe George Jefferson and Louis Gates don't look exactly alike, but they do seem to have one thing in common. They both seem to think that anything bad that happens to them is a direct result of being African-American. Look, everybody knows that only bad things happen when you give a cop a hard time. Black or White, when you get the urge to start yelling and swearing at a cop, you can expect to see the cuffs come out. When you look at the circumstances involved with the Cambridge incident, you can see where both sides could have handled the situation differently. To Mr. Gates point, he owns the house he was in, he just got back from a trip and he was probably exhausted. The police respond to a complaint of a possible break-in and they find Mr. Gates, who they remove from the house in handcuffs. From the police point of view, the house had been broken into the previous week. A neighbor called the police who you would have assumed would have recognized Mr. Gates if he was their neighbor. They try to get information from Mr. Gates, who becomes loud, belligerent, and sarcastic. The police warn that if he keeps it up, he will be arrested. The bottom line is that Mr. Gates claims that if he wasn't a black man living in America, this wouldn't have happened. He is wrong. If he was white, the same thing would have happened, it just wouldn't have been "news worthy".
