The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America
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Before long after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes, underscoring the tension between black and white, police and civilians, and the privileged and less privileged in modern America. Charles Ogletree, one of the country’s foremost experts on civil rights, uses this incident as a lens through which to explore issues of race, class, and crime, with the goal of making a more just officially authorized system for all.
Effective from years of research and based on his own classes and experiences with law enforcement, the leader illuminates the steps needed to embark on the long journey toward racial and officially authorized equality for all Americans.
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Hard to imagine why anyone would want to write a book on this topic. I read the first pages of the book and they were so dry I could have used them to light a fire.
This book is just a wasted dead tree that talks about a dead topic that at one time was in the news. Haven’t we learned all we can about the incident from news reports? Of course we have, so why on planet would anyone want to pay excellent money for this book?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America is a brilliantly composed treatise on one of the most challenging and polarizing issues within the Unites States – justice. Written by one of the leading authorities, educators and activists on issues of race, justice, civil rights and the law, this book is a must read for any citizen concerned with uncovering the tensions resulting from the misguided abuse of power while learning corrective measures to protect the presumption of innocence for all.
Prof. Ogletree’s exposé on the arrest of Prof. “Skip” Gates and the clever analysis of race, class and crime in the United States is a tremendous contribution to an ongoing exchange of monologues that hopefully will evolve into a substantial and meaningful dialogue. Conversation of a post-racial era is effectively refocused on whether we have reached justice and equality for all. From issues of trust and respect to police discretion and society rights, THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT puts the “Skip” Gates event into a past chronicle that is long enough and broad enough to reveal a disturbing pattern. Regardless of what side of the proverbial, bi-passionate bickering one might find oneself on, the amount of media coverage, blogs, editorials and even comedy spoofs reveals that there is something there to be dealt with, even if we continue to deny it. Prof. Ogletree challenges the nation to deal with the “elephant in the room.”
With THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT, Prof. Ogletree touches on the challenges of the current criminal justice system not only through the perspective of the “Skip Gates” arrest but through the tales of Rodney King, Andrew Meyer, Latasha Harlins, Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell. If these seem like isolated incidents that are few and far between take a minute to google the name “Oscar Grant.” Mention of the recent Arizona senate bill 1070 is worthy of a quick read in itself as it clearly offers a perspective to reveal an underlying issue within the country’s fabric that must be “dealt with.”
Whether you agree with Prof. Ogletree or not is not the purpose of the read. If you judge in “justice for all,” or if you want to examine what Archbishop Desmond Tutu once called America’s “illusion of equality,” this book will reveal itself to be captivating, informative and extremely appealing.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Even if you side completely with Gates, you’ll still find this one dull going. Ogletree pads and fluffs with all his might and somehow stretches this thin material out into a book. Ogletree uses some plain examples of profiling that are compelling and honest, but the fatal flaw of the book is that the Gates/Crowley clash at the center was merely foolish and overblown. Dr. Gates’ whining is an insult to real victims of racism, profiling and a predatory justice system. Skip mouthed off to a cop and got cuffed when the cop had had an earful. The City of Cambridge spent $100,000 dollars to assemble a 12 member commission to probe this non-incident and their conclusion: Both Crowley and Gates acted like jerks.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Professor Ogletree’s The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America doesn’t emotionally indict Sergeant Crowley and The Cambridge Police Department nor does it blindly exonerate Professor Gates. Through police records, personal encounters of others, and past evidence Professor Ogletree illuminates a litany of truisms that are prevalent in our society; such as, racial profiling, class stratification, and the complex politics of living as a man of color in the greatest country in the world. As a black male and a native of Cambridge, Mass, where discussions of race and racial disparities can make some queasy and to question a Cantabrigian’s motives in this case Officer Crowley’s is pseudo blasphemy, an issue that Professor Ogletree counters with examples from The Utopian Republic of Cambridge a fantastic place (my home) that is also plagued by the manacles of racial entitlement even in a “post racial” society. Professor Ogeltree brilliantly challenges The City of Cambridge and additional municipalities to examine race at both the micro and macro levels.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
“mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home.” Even if you don’t read the book, with this on the back take in/description, it immediately screams “biased”. After all, Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct, NOT for “breaking into his own home.”
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5