At the end of a primetime news conference, mostly revolving around President Obama’s health care reform bill, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet asks him about race relations in America. He says that “the Cambridge police acted stupidly” in arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates in his own home, which he broke into after forgetting his keys. [...]
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