This is such a stupid idea I can’t believe we’re even talking about it. How long before Confederate soldiers’ kin ask for reparations? It could continue up to Iraq vets.
I laud Dr. Gate’s pointing out that it was black Africans who worked the slave market in Africa. After his arrest incident, I’m surprised he came out this way on the topic.
After his arrest incident, I’m surprised he came out this way on the topic.
After the incident, there was a forum on CSpan with the likes of Michael Dyson. The comment that struck me as most telling was when a woman said, “It was a good thing it was Skip Gates. He was nice about it cause he likes you. It would have been a different story if it had been one of us. The rest of us up here don’t like you at all.”
The depiction here of Gates was always very simplistic. His previous work was not at all race baiting, and showed much thoughtfulness. For this reason, and others, I was not as inclined as some here to automatically take the word of the cops against him.