Monday, July 22, 2013

Gawker: Revisiting Our Last Summer Racial Shitshow, Co-Starring Barack Obama

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Revisiting Our Last Summer Racial Shitshow, Co-Starring Barack Obama
Jul 22nd 2013, 19:44, by Camille Dodero

Revisiting Our Last Summer Racial Shitshow, Co-Starring Barack Obama

Four years ago today, racial profiling was America's most dominant—and ugliest—conversation. Less than a week earlier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard professor, preeminent scholar, and friend of Oprah, had been arrested on his Massachusetts front porch, after being suspected of robbery when, in fact, he'd been trying to enter his own home. Almost immediately, a national shitshow ensued and even the President got involved.

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