Seems to me that both Gates and the grand puppetmasters subsequent statements were pretty obviously examples of playin the race card and racial profiling against a white police officer. Of course this assessment will never hold water since all whites are constantly reminded only "WE" can be racists or ever be accused, much less guilty of such actions.

My contention is the cop would have reacted similarly to anyone having responded as Gates did to his simple request for identification and the subsequent "Do you know who I am!" BS regardless of their skin tone and the only reason this was ever an issue in the press was because it was heralded as a "racial" event and that the puppetmaster then reacted unwisely by commenting on the situation publicly without even being aware of all the details (a sign of poor leadership/managerial skills all in all) which led to a backlash of criticism of both himself and Gates.

So now the puppetmaster wants to have 'em both over to the Whitehouse for a beer and commiserate over the whole incident. Gates attorney was quoted as saying Gates neither expects to extend nor receive any apologies at the get together, and why should he? The police department already dropped the charges against him in an obvious "bowing to external pressures" move, something that would never have happened if Gates had been white, or not a personal friend of the puppetmaster. So .... I'm sure great progress will be made in tonights get together