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Potent op-ed notes what is missing from the Gates-gate debate

By Douglas A. Berman

Writing in today's New York Times, Glenn Loury has this potent op-ed putting the brouhaha surrounding the Gates incident in a broader context.  Here are excerpts: [T]his much-publicized incident is emblematic of precisely nothing at all. Rather, the Gates arrest is a made-for-cable-TV tempest in a teapot. It is the rough equivalent of a black man being thrown out of a restaurant after having berated an indifferent maître d? for showing him to a table by the kitchen door, all the while declaring what everybody is supposed to know: this is what happens to a black man in America. Certainly, the contretemps shed no relevant light on the plight of the millions of black men on society?s margins who bear the brunt of police scrutiny and government-sanctioned coercion...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 26, 2009 (boomark / email).