Did Deval make a call?

"I'll speak to your mama outside..." -Harvard Scholar Professor Gates.

On now Professor Gates application to Yale, he wrote the following: "As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate. It is your decision either to let me blow with the wind as a nonentity or to encourage the development of self. Allow me to prove myself."

After Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct, and it seems by all accounts that the only racist behavior during this incident was Gates' behavior and his conduct was clearly at least disorderly.

Now that the evidence points to Gates' behavior justified his arrest, suddenly there is no more need for investigation. "We" should all learn from this episode and move on. WE should learn...

If by "we" we mean Professor Gates, the Governor of Massachusetts and the President of the United States, then yes; "we" should learn something from this, but first are there not some apologies due?

Maybe Professor Gates would like to start with apologies to "whitey."

The Governor will not apologize: "“I’m not sure what I’m being asked to apologize for,” Patrick said today.

Union officials from the Cambridge Police Department demanded an apology from Patrick on Friday for saying Gates’ arrest by Cambridge Police Sgt. John Crowley is “every black man’s nightmare.”" -Boston Herald

Deval Patrick has a history of trying to free guilty African Americans because they are African Americans.


Benjamin LaGuer, who was found guilty of tying up and raping a neighbor for eight hours in 1983, at MCI-Norfolk in 2002. (Charles Krupa/ File/ Associated Press)

Did Gov. Deval Patrick make a phone call on Gates behalf and get charges, legitimate charges, dropped? Was the Governor of Massachusetts prepared to let Cambridge Police Sgt. Crowley hang for committing "every black man's nightmare?"

Sgt. Crowley executed his duties properly as he has for the duration of his lengthy and exemplary career.

How does the Governor's record compare? Only 33% in Massachusetts Favor Incumbent Governor in 2010

Not many want him back in 2010, but should he be out sooner? Can he be out sooner?

Yes, he can!