Posts Tagged ‘Gates’

Is America "Teachable"?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The recent Teachable Moment presented itself when the Cambridge, MA cop (Sgt. Crowley) arrested the Harvard professor (Henry Gates) in his own home and Pres. Obama dared to utter an empirical truth/fact about racial profiling because he knew the phenomenon well enough to speak spontaneously about it. The opportunity for the Moment passed once the media framed it as Obama’s overzealous conclusion about police stupidity without knowing “all the facts in the case.”

We’re doomed it seems to never learn, or worse, never be able to teach ourselves to learn. This happens for several reasons. (more…)