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Lucia Whalen was the American woman
who saw two men trying to enter a house without using keys and called the
Cambridge police for assistance. It is now clear to all that her intent was to
protect the homeowner and the neighborhood regardless of race. Some initially
felt that she called the police because they were Blacks, and other felt that
she may have done it to ridicule Professor Gates, who happens to be the Black
man she knows actually lives in the house.
Further investigation shows that
Whalen did not know the race or the identity of the two men trying to get into
the house. She was solely concerned about protection. Despite the vast media
coverage and the involvement of the President, she still summoned the courage to
put her face in the television to state her position in the matter. Whalen
emphasized that she never mentioned race (Black) on the 911 call, which has been
proven, and also stated that she never mentioned race to Sergeant Crowley when
he arrived at the scene. It was Sergeant Crowley that brought race into the
issue, mentally and socially, in his report of the case. It was Sergeant
Crowley who went to the scene with a mind set of “possible Black criminals” and
it may have affected how he did his job when he finally met Professor Gates at
the house.
I admire many White Americans like
Lucia Whalen for serving America diligently in their very simple ways daily.
She did not only try to protect her neighbor’s house, but refused to protect a
White police officer, who most likely erred in his judgment while performing his
duty. Some White Americans, who may put their race before the unity and
progress of their country, may have kept quiet or taken the blame, just to make
sure that bad policing still runs around our great nation to put Blacks in their
place. But Lucia Whalen, as a true American should, came out in nobility to
show her good citizenship.
Any descent police office with
superior judgment would have walked away respectfully with a smile of gratitude
on the face of the homeowner, as soon as he showed proof of residence or
identity. Instead, we had a police officer, who daydreams of Black criminals,
offending a homeowner who ends up demanding his badge number and identity.
Unlike Sergeant Leon Lashley and Kelley King of the Cambridge police, I stand in
salutation to Lucia Whalen for being a true American by showing us that America
deserves to be a 21st century color blind society in truth and in
fairness.
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