Henry Louis Gates Gets N*gga Wake Up Call - Arrested for No Reason
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 05:12PM 
Obama - "The Cambridge police acted stupidly when there was already proof" Gates was in his own home," the president said. "What we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latino being stopped by policy disproportionately." [MORE]
By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY
Police dropped disorderly conduct charges against prominent Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates on Tuesday, officially ending a case that unofficially is fueling debate over racial profiling.
Gates, the director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was arrested July 16 when police went to his home after a report of a break-in.
In a joint statement Tuesday, Gates, the Cambridge city government and the police department called the incident "regrettable and unfortunate."
"This incident should not be viewed as one that demeans the character and reputation of Professor Gates or the character of the Cambridge Police Department," it said.
Gates and his attorney, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, did not return phone calls Tuesday.
"There are one million black men in jail in this country, and last Thursday I was one of them," Gates told The Washington Post on Tuesday. "This is outrageous. ... This is how poor black men across the country are treated every day in the criminal justice system. It's one thing to write about it, but altogether another to experience it."
Professor Gates is founder of the Root.com, a website about issues affecting African Americans that is owned by The Washington Post Co.
The incident began when a neighbor phoned 911 to report two black men trying to break open the front door of the house Gates rents from Harvard, according to a police report. The woman reported seeing "two black males with backpacks on the porch," one of whom was "wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry," the report said. A statement issued by Ogletree said Gates was returning from a trip to China and couldn't get into his house because the door was jammed. He forced the door open with his driver's help and was on the phone when police arrived. An officer asked for his identification, which Gates provided, according to Ogletree's statement. The officer ignored requests by Gates for his name and badge number, the statement said.
The police report said Gates was arrested after he yelled at an officer, accused him of racial bias and refused to calm down after the officer asked that Gates show him identification to prove he lived in the home.
The incident is renewing accusations that police single out minorities based only on skin color.
Ronald Walters, professor emeritus of politics and African American studies at the University of Maryland, said the incident shows that if someone as well-regarded as Gates can be targeted, it can happen to anyone.
"There was a feeling that this is a classic case of racial profiling," he said.
He said the arrest occurred against the backdrop of talk that race should not matter since President Obama's election.
"The issue of racism is taken lightly ... but look at 400 years of American history. It's going to take more than a black man in the White House to eliminate it," Walters said. "This case shows it's there, it's virulent and it persists despite the gains we've made."
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Arizona- Fired me in the basement of a funeral home while selecting my dads casket.
California:- As an Underwriter/Auditor in Pasadena I refused to process and approve fraud loans for cash under the table.
My civil rights were violated by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, I told Natasha Sears and Eileen Sotak at EEOC. They were kind enough to spend two years investigating my complaint; they found reasonable cause to believe my claims, ruled in my favor and issued a final determination.
During that investigation multiple civil rights violations were observed and noted by EEOC.
It is common and acceptable for Wells Fargo to discriminate and ignore the rights, privileges and entitlements afforded to minorities.
They then gave an individual, who sought protective and corrective actions the burden of dealing with their negligent actions.
Eileen Sotak communicated recently that my file with them was destroyed, why would the government destroy evidence in a case investigating, and documenting racism, and discrimination?
It is common and acceptable for Wells Fargo to discriminate and ignore the rights, privileges and entitlements afforded to minorities.
Eileen Sotak confirmed a problem and then destroyed the evidence.
I believe Ms. Natasha Sears and Eileen Sotak should be required to execute affidavits regarding their findings.
Ms. Sotak's indicated that the findings and her decision was final.
Then Hurricane Edith and Tropical Storm Tami arrived with devastating destruction to terrorize me with racial slurs and false claims of stalking them including false affidavits and lies in court to arrest and hang me.
I believe that LA Superior Court was negligent and violated my right to privacy and confidentiality and knowingly allowed Tami Ohana and Edith Stern to continue with the racism that was common over the years
I requested corrective actions and remedies. I received no accommodations. Edith and Tami screamed rape and now I am hanging from a tree.
Darryl Grayson
Darryl Grayson & Associates
OHANA v. 180 PROSPECT PLACE REALTY CORP.
996 F.Supp. 238 (1998)
Tami OHANA and Edith Stern, Plaintiffs,v.180 PROSPECT PLACE REALTY CORP.; Allan Fogelson; Richard Pilson; Ruth Jackson; and Gloria Phelps, Defendants.
No. 94-CV-5816 (FB).
United States District Court, E.D. New York.
March 11, 1998.
They are looking for a quick dollar and should be remanded. Edith Stern and Tami Ohana has used racial slurs at neighbors from New York to Los Angeles impossible that the courts allowed them to harass African American and people from the middle east as per the attached:
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BLOCK, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Tami Ohana and Edith Stern, pro se, commenced this action against, inter alia, Ruth Jackson ("Jackson") and Gloria Phelps ("Phelps"), seeking monetary damages against these defendants for their alleged interference with plaintiffs' rights under § 3617 of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq. ("FHA"), and an implementing regulation, 24 C.F.R. § 100.400. Presently before the Court are Jackson's and Phelps' motions to dismiss plaintiffs' complaint, as amended, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), for failure to state a claim. The Court denies their motions. In so doing, the Court holds that the FHA not only protects individuals from discrimination in the acquisition of their residences because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin, but also protects them from interference by their neighbors for such discriminatory reasons in the peaceful enjoyment of their homes.
BACKGROUND
Plaintiffs' amended complaint alleges the following pertinent facts: On December 12, 1991, plaintiffs moved into Apartment 4D at 170 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, New York.1 From that day forward, until they moved out the following December, Jackson and Phelps, their not-too-friendly neighbors, engaged in a series of discriminatory acts against them based upon plaintiffs' race (Hebrew), religion (Jewish), and national origin (Middle Eastern).2
These acts took the form of racial and anti-Jewish slurs and epithets, threats of bodily harm, and noise disturbances. For example, on the day after plaintiffs moved in, Phelps "stalked plaintiffs in front of their [apartment] door and said she is `unhappy that whites moved next door.'" On another occasion, Jackson "yelled loudly `I'll have the motherf — ker Jews out.' " At times, Phelps and Jackson also banged on walls and hammered late at night while shouting their slurs and epithets. Specifically, on at least two occasions, Jackson "hammer[ed] loudly while hollering `Jews move,' [at] around 2:00 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., startling [plaintiffs] awake." On another occasion, Jackson "forced herself into [plaintiffs'] apartment and put her fist in plaintiff Stern's face saying she had `already hit the landlord.'" In another incident, Jackson "accosted plaintiff Stern in the hall ... and shouted at plaintiff Stern that `she was not black enough to live in the building' and that she'll `send an Arab to kill her.'"
Visitors to Jackson's and Phelps' apartments participated in this type of abusive activity. For example, plaintiffs allege that "defendant Jackson with other tenants from 170 Prospect Pl., and visitors to her Apt. (# 3D) directed threats of bodily harm and anti-Jewish epithets at plaintiffs, intentionally done during the Jewish holiday of Purim."
Tami Ohana and Edith Stern, Hollywood, CA, pro se.
Ruth Jackson, Brooklyn, NY, pro se.
Gloria Phelps, Brooklyn, NY, pro se.
Richard J. Pilson, Berliner & Pilson, New York City, for 180 Prospect Place Realty Co., Allan Fogelson and Richard Pilson