that went a long way toward sewing distrust between obama and white peopleJuly 2009: Not having heard all the facts, Obama accused Cambridge, Mass., police of "acting stupidly" in arresting a friend of his, Harvard professor Henry Gates, for disorderly conduct, dangling race as a motive for the arrest.
Really? I thought Obama was absolutely correct when he said it, and I'm a white woman. I have lots of white friends who have had something similar happen, and no one has ever called the police on us. But that the police would arrest a man for being on his own front porch, was beyond offensive.