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Bob Herbert Op-Ed " Anger Has Its Place"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Op-Ed Columnist Anger Has Its Place By BOB HERBERT Published: July 31, 2009- New York Times No more than five or six minutes elapsed from the time the police were alerted to the possibility of a break-in at a home in a quiet residential neighborhood and the awful clamping of handcuffs on the wrists of the distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. If Professor Gates ranted and raved at the cop who entered his home uninvited with a badge, a gun and an attitude, he didn?t rant and rave for long. The 911 call came in at about 12:45 on the afternoon of July 16 and, as The Times has reported, Mr. Gates was arrested, cuffed and about to be led off to jail by 12:51. The charge: angry while black. The president of the United States has suggested that we use this flare-up as a ?teachable moment,? but so far exactly the wrong lessons are being drawn from it ? especially for black people...continue to full post

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