Arbitration & Mediation

Maureen Dowd Chats with Skip Gates at the New York Times

By Victoria Pynchon

Maureen Dowd correctly notes in today's NYTimes column Bite Your Tongue, that "race, class and testosterone will always be a combustible brew. Our first African-American president will try to make the peace with Gates (who supported Hillary) and Crowley (whose father voted for Obama)." Dowd

tracked Gates down . . . after he had talked to the president and agreed to go to the White House for a symbolic beer with the man he labeled 'a rogue policeman.' . . . .

[Gates] says he's ready for 'marriage counseling' from the 'Solomon' in the Oval, who wrote in his memoir that the police pulled him over 'for no apparent reason.' 'If Sgt. Crowley and the president and I meet, it's clearly not going to be like Judge Joe Brown, OK? ‘You tell your side, you tell your side.' We have to agree to disagree. But I would be surprised if somebody didn't say, ‘I'm sorry you were arrested.' '

And I would be surprised if somebody didn't say, "I'm sorry I acted like an asshole." Let he who has never been an asshole throw the first stone.

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on July 26, 2009 (boomark / email).