It's a feeling some African-Americans say is all too common, even to this day in America: No matter your status or prominence in society, you're still typecast. That's why the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's most prominent African-American scholars, has stirred outrage and debate.
Jelani Cobb, an author and professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, says it's troubling on many levels when "one of the most recognizable African-Americans in the country can be arrested in his own home and have to justify being in his own home."
How is it possible that things like this can still happen in 2009? No one, regardless of race, should be treated like this standing in THEIR OWN HOME! Assuming something about someone based on race is just beyond astounding. We as a country have a lot of work to do to ensure that all humans are treated the same regardless of the things that we try to label each other with and these labels are certainly not limited to only race. We are one whether everyone likes it or not and it's high time we started acting that way!
Found via CNN.
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