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What Makes the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. So Tragic

What Makes the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. So Tragic

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.com. July 22, 2009.

In a moment of overzealous policing, an officer in Cambridge handcuffed and detain a living embodiment of post-racial possibility.