Benny, thanks for your kind comment. The beer summ...

2009-08-02T14:46:04.122-07:00

Benny,
thanks for your kind comment. The beer summit is one of these unfortunate moments. Henry Louis Gates probably did over react, but he over reacted because there's a very real history and current practice of racial profiling.
Now, everyone's saying, the President jumped the gun,etc.

Sorry I'm late to the reading of this post, althou...

2009-07-30T15:42:59.267-07:00

Sorry I'm late to the reading of this post, although I think many of your posts are essays that are timeless. This may be one of them.

I've not been to Angel Island either, but I have fond memories of biking in Tiburon about 12 years ago. I love that area of Marin County and hope to get back to visit sometime.

Regarding your experience, I need to read it again, but this grabed my attention:

"I’m not sure what you’re supposed to say about the slave quarters at Mount Vernon, Tule Lake, the site of the Haymarket Massacre, Wounded Knee. Of course, these were horrible things and we have memorials in these places to remind us that the past was not perfect and that we’re supposed to be beyond such moments. What are you supposed to say as a tour guide at say Dachau? Well this was a Jewish perspective, but to be totally fair here’s the Nazi perspective on this place and why they did these things?"

I think there will always be some awkwardness, especially as the beer summit at the WH is going on. What giles me about that is the media's obsession with a beer summit rather than discussing the real issue of racial profiling and the actions of the police who have more control over who gets arrested on the spot.

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Benny, thanks for your kind comment. The beer summ...

Sorry I'm late to the reading of this post, althou...