Charles Ogletree with Soledad O'Brien on Race, Class and Crime at 92Y

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On June 30, Charles Ogletree was interviewed by Soledad O'Brien about his book, "The Presumption of Guilt." The book dealt with last year's arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for attempting to break into his own home. Their fascinating discussion explored tensions between black and white, police and civilians and the privileged and less privileged. Mr. Ogletree also singled out class as playing a large role in the event, and framed the event as one between a white, working class Cambridge police officer and an affluent, accomplished, black Harvard professor.

"How is this about class?" O'Brien inquired. "Very simply," he replied. "The very first thing Skip Gates said, when officer Crowley came into his house and asked him for identification, said, 'do you know who I am?' ...his point was, he had achieved something...he wasn't just a black man, he was a prominent Harvard University professor living in a prominent neighborhood..."

For our Facebook friends who submitted questions for Mr. Ogletree, pay attention to the 3:45 mark, when he addresses your questions directly.

As well, don't miss Eva McKend's piece for Essence.com: http://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/racial_profiling_leads_to_a_presumpt...

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[highwater03]

@slckr80s

I'd lick all the juice out of that mature cunt.

[flubno]

I want to do Soledad O'Brein in the butt !

[slckr80s]

I wish Soledad would sit on my face.

[aussieguy2109]

@al5mnd9trnksdr745bi Racism? Why was it Racist to be upset that a policemen thought you where breaking into your own house, just because your black.

Please the Obamas are far from Left, maybe you should read up on Obama's centre right policies and turn of Fox news. Maybe pick up a book on political theory. One that explains that conservatives are bill o reillys and Glenn Becks, they are radical right wingers, conservatives dont like change, they dont try to force change.

[aussieguy2109]

@guyNbluejeans Also the Renaissance would of happened if it wasnt for Arabs preserving ancient greek plays and texts. Also Arabs where the first to open up universities, make advances in medicine and surgery. White anglos did not create modernity on their own. They had help.

[aussieguy2109]

@guyNbluejeans Caucasians benefited from black slavery, they benefited from the knowledge of ancient egypt, they also benefited from Africa's resources. Some of Ancient Rome's Caesars where black, There was also a black head of state in Florence, Alessandro de medici. Most of the moors in spain where from African origins and they brought alot of technology and advances to europe during the so called dark ages. Also you forget about Carthage, the great maritime power in africa.

[guyNbluejeans]

What's going on in this country is exactly what Thomas Jefferson predicted. These two races cannot live together under the same government. Just look at how blacks are elite citizens and how the genius Caucasian race is being defecated on constantly in this country. These two brazen ingrates in this vid enjoy a standard of living that they would never in a billion years have were it not for the group they attack with lies!

Caucasians don't benefit from blacks at all in the general sense, but...

[jackfire55]

Google Maoa-1 gene in blacks.

[highwater03]

Soledad is so so hot.

[ReliableInsider]

People are confused.

You have the right to defend yourself, but you don't have the right to walk out of your house, walk down the street, and murder two burglars in cold blood when the police are on the way.

You're not the judge, jury, executioner, OR a police officer.

And officers shouldn't murder people in cold blood either.