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Bonnie Erbe

Racial Tensions Stirred by Henry Louis Gates Arrest Could Grow

July 23, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

O.J. Simpson, Simi Valley, Rodney King. They all stand as visions of a racially divided America, an aspect of American life and culture of which no one is proud. I'm just wondering if the controversy surrounding the clash between renowned African-American scholar Henry Gates and a sergeant in the Cambridge police department is going to become a clash of larger proportions.

And I hope it does not.

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