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Suspended for racist email?

July 30, 2009 By cmarie 29 Comments

The Boston Globe Reports:  "[Boston Police] Officer Justin Barrett was suspended Tuesday after allegedly writing the racially charged email about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, referring to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: free-speech, gates, racism

Unbearable irony: Judge Sotomayor might actually oppose the firing of Officer Barrett

July 30, 2009 By David 70 Comments

So the Boston Police Department, having discovered that one of its officers (Justin Barrett) sent a truly revolting email about the Henry Louis Gates arrest to the Globe and some other folks, has suspended him, and is apparently going to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gates, gatesgate, sotomayor

Jeff Santos Show interview with Cambridge Mayor Simmons

July 30, 2009 By roborig Leave a Comment

c/p itinerantactivist The Jeff Santos Show on 1510AM Revolution Boston will interview Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons regarding the Gates-Crowley controversy tomorrow morning 7/30/09 at 8:45 am ET. The interview will be rebroadcast at 6pm ET … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, crowley, denise-simmons, gates, jeff-santos, progressive-radio, progressive-talk, wwzn

Gatesgate, part two (now starring Globe reporter Yvonne Abraham)

July 29, 2009 By Tristan 19 Comments

The email itself, courtesy of Fox25 Boston: What no one has reported (yet) is precisely what got Barrett so exercised.  A small amount of digging reveals this column by the Boston Globe's Yvonne … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abraham, barrett, gates, police, race-relations, racism

Some thought-provoking analyses of the Gates arrest

July 26, 2009 By cannoneo 41 Comments

Stanley Fish, a longtime friend and colleague of Gates's, in his New York Times blog summarizes the racist treatment Gates has suffered since his earliest days as a professor. It's important for those of us who have followed his career to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, crowley, gates, police

Police unions get their backs up; Obama talks with Crowley [update] and Gates

July 24, 2009 By David 36 Comments

I see that Bob has just written a similar post.  But I was working on this when his went up, so I'm posting it anyway.  ;-) Around here, things seem to be going from bad to worse. Police unions today called on President Obama and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: crowley, gates, gatesgate, obama

Front page watch: Chris Matthews may have been right after all

July 24, 2009 By David 5 Comments

Right after President Obama's health care presser the other night, Chris Matthews predicted that Obama had "stepped on his headline" by venturing into the controversy still swirling around Gatesgate.  Initial results showed him to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gates, obama

Did Obama step on his health care headline?

July 23, 2009 By David 20 Comments

On MSNBC tonight, Chris Matthews speculated that President Obama might have "stepped on his headline" by jumping into the controversy over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  Matthews thought that, given the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gates, health-care, obama

“Racial Profiling Is Alive And Well”

July 22, 2009 By ACLUm blog 7 Comments

This incident itself is an opening to the issue of racial profiling.  Here are links to information about two other recent, prominent cases: http://www.aclum.org/news/2007... http://www.aclum.org/docket/va... The first involves the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, gates, race, racial-profiling

Cambridge cops take black, disabled professor away in handcuffs. Read the police report here.

July 21, 2009 By David 87 Comments

FURTHER UPDATE: Here is a joint statement that would seem to end the matter: Joint Press Release from City of Cambridge, Cambridge PD, Middlesex County D.A., and Prof. Gates The City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Police Department have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, gates

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Despite the headway we’ve made on climate change, it remains an existential threat to our way of life. This challenge requires a global approach and I’m glad MA is doing its part to guarantee a safer planet for future generations. #climatescience #MApoli
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For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about how we’re facing a doom loop of minority rule by white conservatives and the next two years may be our last chance to avoid slipping into it forever. Our leaders must treat this as the crisis that it is and act with urgency. https://trib.al/X0NAofi

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