Gates Gate Edit Meaning

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Refers to the legal case in which Henry Louis Gates Jr, a Harvard Professor who teaches, among other topics, identity politics issues such as racial profilingaccuses sergeant James Crowley of the Cambridge police force, who himself teaches other Cambridge police officers about racial profilingand how to avoid it, of racial profilingwhen sergeant Crowley arrested Professor Gates for disorderly conduct on July 16th 2009.

Pete: What's up with that thing about that black Harvard professor accusing the white cop of racial profiling?

John: Ya I've seen it. It's Gates gate. It's all over the news. Now get your fat brown eye off the remote so I can watch Red Eye.

See racial profiling, watergate