Professor Gates, Harvard's Pride

[Sundae]

Don't know about "African" anything Els, but being a black person in England does not mean having to have anything.

The black people I know are as different and diverse as the white people.
Chips on shoulders and attitudes and issues are far more dependent on social class, deprivation, family situation, sense of identity and (sadly) religion than they are on colour.

I can't speak for your country. You have a more violent racial history, and more recently, where people can remember their families being hosed, having dogs set on them, being segregated, being denied votes and schooling. Here, it's further back, where people's family memories include partition, colonial rule, Amritsar and all that. I'm not taking the moral high ground.

I'm just saying, while I applauded the first part of your post, the second part shocked me. I think the Professor acted like a cock. I don't care whether he was black, white, or sky-blue-pink. But your post sounds to you like to you it does. Which I find sad.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I can't speak for your country.

Doesn't stop you from trying, does it?

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I think the Professor acted like a cock. I don't care whether he was black, white, or sky-blue-pink. But your post sounds to you like to you it does. Which I find sad.

Did you happen to read anything about the original story? The fact that this man is a career expert in racially inflammatory subjects, sees everything with racially-colored glasses, and was the one that introduced the topic of race into this incident? Yet, in your mind, the pollyannish platitude that race is an invisible, neutral subject trumps everything else (even the facts). Nobody, especially--God forbid--a white American, is allowed to comment on race.