The Harvard Professor And The Wolf
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Harvard Professor Gates Says It's Time to 'Move on' From His Arrest
It's funny because Americans have no idea what a truly unfair and unjust criminal justice system is like. Ask Ri Hyon Ok of North Korea. Are there transgressions in our system? Yes. But they are the extreme exception.
Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying "in the end, this is not about me at all."Meaning... "I cried wolf! and nobody came..."
It's funny because Americans have no idea what a truly unfair and unjust criminal justice system is like. Ask Ri Hyon Ok of North Korea. Are there transgressions in our system? Yes. But they are the extreme exception.
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