Despite rapprochement with the Cambridge police officer who arrested him inside his home for disorderly conduct, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. says that university officials have told him to consider moving in the wake of death threats he’s received since the incident reached the national stage.
Last month, when Gates was arrested by a white police officer for disorderly conduct (the African American scholar was in fact breaking into his own home), the popular Harvard professor’s arrest created a media firestorm over alleged racial profiling.
On Sunday, Gates said that Harvard University officials recommended that he consider moving after he received numerous death threats. Harvard owns the home Gates resides in.
“You should die; you’re a racist,” read one e-mail, according to reports. While promoting his new book on Martha’s Vineyard on Sunday, the professor also said he’d been the subject of bomb threats as well.
Gates has changed his email address and cell phone number as a result.
Someone posted signs outside Gates’ Ware Street home July 25 calling him “shameful” and a “racist,” the professor said.
The controversy surrounding Gates’ arrest took on a national flavor after President Barack Obama weighed in, saying it was “stupidly handled.” Obama later invited the two men for beers at the White House.
Since the White House tete-a-tete, Gates has taken a more humorous tone in speaking of his arrest, saying that he and police officer James Crowley “discussed plans to take in a Celtics or Red Sox game or have their families meet up for a meal.”
“I offered to get his kids into Harvard if he doesn’t arrest me again,” Gates told a crowd Sunday.
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poor guy. this shows you sick these racists truly are, they are trying to now attack gates as the bad guy, and call him the racist! no doubt these same phsycos attacking gates are the very same people who attack Muslims and Islam.