Colin Powell On Larry King
Colin Powell On Larry King – Colin Powell appeared on Larry King’s show this evening where he talked about the Henry Louis Gates drama and revealed that he has suffered from racial profiling “many times”.The former Secretary of State Colin said:
I’m saying that Skip, perhaps in this instance, might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer, and that might have been the end of it. I think he should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make that big a deal. But, he’s just home from China, just home from New York. All he wanted to do was get to bed.His door was jammed. And so he was in a mood where…
Powell added:
That may well be the case. But I still think that it might well have been resolved in a different manner if we didn’t have this verbal altercation between the two of them.
So, my first teaching point for young people, especially, not for Dr. Gates, that the young people, especially, is, when the police are looking into something, and if you’re involved in it in one way or another, cooperate. Don’t make the situation more difficult. And I think in this case, the situation was made more difficult.
And you could part on the part of the Cambridge Police Department. Once they felt they had to bring Dr. Gates out of the house and to handcuff him, I would have thought at that point some adult supervision would have stepped in and said, OK, look, it is his house. Come on, let’s not take this any further. Take the handcuffs off. Goodnight, Dr. Gates.
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