About Gates

I haven't commented on the Gates story because I was hoping it would die out. As if. The media does love its soundbite "journalism." I just did my long form post at DetNews. Shorter me: Yes racial profiling is a problem. Yes racism still exists, but what happened to Gates has more to do with abuse of power. And that's the real problem for civil society.

I tweeted that theme first but Ta-nehisi Coates and Digby beat me to the long form posts. Both are well worth reading.

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