Mathoms, etc.

I've watched Henry Louis Gates Jr. on PBS, The Daily Show, Oprah and The Colbert Report and I couldn't believe it was the same venerable Harvard Professor that I saw arrested at his own home in Cambridge last week. The charges of disorderly conduct were eventually dropped.

There's always two sides to a story. Perhaps either party might have been guilty of saying or doing something to worsen an already bad situation. But it does make you think if such a thing could have happened if a white gentleman was involved. Racial profiling is alive and well in America, even in the age of Obama.