A great video on the issue of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates. This video is analytical and shows both sides of the story. It also analyzes why each participant had the right to be upset.
And another thing to note, well I guess this would just be my two cents, but in many of the media, it says that Henry Louis Gates overreacted when he was initially asked to show his ID, I don't agree with this statement just because of the history between black people or any people of colour and the police. Through the history of prejudice and racial profiling throughout not just the US but all over the world, people of colour, in this case a black man, will be sensitive and upset to a situation where they are wrongfully accused of a crime. It's because people of colour still have bitter feelings of being treated differently and badly, and always stereotyped to be certain characters, of who they are not. So to be wrongfully accused of breaking into your own home, we should be very upset and act aggressively, just because of all the sensitivity towards the history of predjudice.
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