Gates accepts White House meeting offer

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Gates accepts White House meeting offer

By Tracy Jan and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff


Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said this evening that he would accept President Obama's invitation to meet with him and Cambridge Police Sergeant James M. Crowley at the White House.

"My entire academic career has been based on improving race relations, not exacerbating them. I am hopeful that my experience will lead to greater sensitivity to issues of racial profiling in the criminal justice system. If so, then this will be a blessing for our society. It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience," Gates said in an email to the Globe.

Obama extended the invitation today in phone calls to the two men as he sought to calm a national debate over racial profiling that reached a fever pitch after the white officer arrested the black scholar at his home last week.

Crowley and the president discussed "he and I and professor Gates having a beer here in the White House," Obama said in a White House news conference. "We don't know if that's scheduled yet -- but we may put that together." The White House issued a statement later, noting that Obama had also called Gates.

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[maglatinavi]

1. gates

the beer sounds good ...

[WeDidIt]

2. I hope that Obama, Gates, and Crowley have pretzels, too

I wonder if the Secret Service still has that ban on....

[MADem]

3. I think they ought to pop this video in....seriously.

Take the time and at least watch part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOIbQsm3F0&feature=PlayList&p=B59C55AED5A75949&index=0

[Historic NY]

4. ROLFLMAO.........

:rofl:

[MADem]

5. Fits the occasion, doesn't it? Particularly when he talks about being robbed...

and not calling the police, because his stuff is "too nice."