Article: Beer op

Courage lacking

AS I watched the big sit-down Thursday of President Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr., James Crowley, and Vice President Biden, I thought the only people I would like to have a beer with is the 911 caller, Lucia Whalen, and Crowley's police colleague, Sergeant Leon Lashley. These two courageous Americans have had to endure threats and assaults on their character for taking a stand.

By supporting his fellow officer, Lashley, a black man, has been accused of renouncing his heritage. Whalen, according to the 911 tapes, did not identify the race of the two men who were seen at Gates's house. Yet, people, fueled by the media, went berserk accusing her of being a racist without having ...

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