http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE56O1O420090725
Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman
Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:24pm EDT
As an aside, I just love the title the authors choose to give to the article:
"Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman." Sheesh.
I think this is part of the problem in America. Why can't Gate's simply be a scholar, why does he have to be a
Black scholar? Is there a difference between both types of scholars? If Gates is a Black scholar, why isn't Crowley a White policeman, rather than just a policeman? C'mon, is that the way people think?, ...or should think? Do we really go around describing people, occupations, and professions in terms of ethnicity? Is it even relevant? If so, ...how? I think it is these types of ubiquitous & unecessary distinctions that re-inforce the artificial barriers that do such a disservice to your society.
Am I the only one who thinks perhaps the article would have been more appropriately entitled: "Scholar agrees to beer with Obama and policeman"
When the story was first broadcast on my local news, he was decribed as a Harvard scholar arrested for breaking into his own home. it was only after they flashed a picture of his mug shot that it his ethnicity was revealed.