Harvad tells Gates to consider moving

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/03/harvard-tells-gates-to-consider-moving-after-death-threats/


Despite rapprochement with the Cambridge police officer who arrested him inside his home for disorderly conduct, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. says that university officials have told him to consider moving in the wake of death threats he’s received since the incident reached the national stage.

Last month, when Gates was arrested by a white police officer for disorderly conduct (the African American scholar was in fact breaking into his own home), the popular Harvard professor’s arrest created a media firestorm over alleged racial profiling.

On Sunday, Gates said that Harvard University officials recommended that he consider moving after he received numerous death threats. Harvard owns the home Gates resides in.

“You should die; you’re a racist,” read one e-mail, according to reports. While promoting his new book on Martha’s Vineyard on Sunday, the professor also said he’d been the subject of bomb threats as well.

Gates has changed his email . . .

anything that happens to Gates is on the racist cops from here on .

NT

about Harvard cops

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/opinion/04herbert.html



"The arrest last month of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. did not occur in a vacuum. While his encounter was not with the Harvard University Police Department (he was arrested by a member of the Cambridge force), it was the latest in a series of troubling incidents that have left law-abiding members of the Harvard community feeling as though they were unfairly targeted and humiliated because of their race.

The incident that ultimately led Ms. Faust to establish the committee concerned a black high school student who was working in a youth employment program at Harvard. The Harvard police, responding to a phone call, spotted the youngster attempting to remove a lock from a bicycle. He tried to explain that the bike was his and that his key had broken off in the lock.

One of the officers reportedly pulled a gun and pointed it at the teenager. The frightened youngster said he did not have any photo identification, but he showed the officers his library card. Traumatized, he started to cry at one point. When the boy’s story was eventually confirmed, he was allowed to leave with his bike.

In 2004, the campus police stopped S. Allen Counter, a distinguished professor of neuroscience at the Harvard Medical School as he was strolling across Harvard Yard. Professor Counter, who is black and had been at Harvard for 30 years when the incident occurred, was viewed by the police as a robbery suspect. They asked him if he belonged at Harvard.

He did not have his identification with him. In a particularly humiliating ritual, the officers went to University Hall and asked two students to confirm that the professor had an office there. They did."

Thanks for the link. These incidents do "not occur in a vacuum", indeed.

It's not as though this was a lone incident.

Obviously there are plenty of cops there. Hopefully they will be as jonny on the spot about terror threats as they were about a non-B&E.

Hang a few of them out to dry and see the rats run.

racists, isn't it? How sick that is, especially since the accusations are accompanied by threats.

Just when I think the Right can't get any more hateful and ridiculous, they do.