GATES CALLS RELEASED - AT 5:40 P.M. ET:  Cambridge (Mass.) police have now released tapes of the 911 call and police communications surrounding the arrest of now world-famous Professor Henry Louis Gates of Harvard.

The drama.  The heartbreak.  The racism.  The violence.  Beats "Birth of a Nation" anytime.  And you can hear it here and here. 

Soon to be three or four TV specials.  And endless college classes in the Ivy League.  An immortal story even greater than the Civil War.

I can't go on.

July 27, 2009