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Tuesday July 28, 2009

President Obama's Teachable Moment

Obama's teaching: if you arrest a black man under questionable circumstances, you get to have a beer with the president.

Tags: profiling, racism, Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr., alcohol, police business, Hurricane Katrina, stereotypes, Jim Crowley, George W. Bush

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