Obama's Take on Gates's Arrest, per CNN

I'm headed to BlogHer09 in Chicago, Ill. My daughter's driving right now, and in about an hour we'll be stopping at a hotel six hours south of the Windy City. We're enjoying our time together, but I thought I should post President Barack Obama's take on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard professor, in his own home near Harvard Square.

I've been following the story and have written about it twice at this blog, now thrice counting this update. I also cross-posted on the topic at BlogHer.com after Gates asked the police officer for an apology and offered to educate him about African-American history and racism in America.

In the video from CNN, President Obama says that he wasn't there but thinks the police acted "stupidly" by arresting a man in his own home after verifying his identity. He added that separate from the Gates incident it's a fact that racial profiling is real and African-Americans and Latinos are stopped by police officers in disproportionate rates to whites.

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