The Beer Summit

Summer, 2009:

This hasn't been a sleepy summer on the political front! At a press conference recently, a reporter asked the President how he felt about a recent arrest in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Had any of US heard about this? No, why would we? Some guy gets arrested in Cambridge? That is hardly going to be on the front page of my Journal World, but as it turns out, the President knew all about it, and had plenty to say about it. Unfortunately, when asked about the arrest, the President claimed, while admitting that he didn't have all the facts, that the Cambridge police reacted "stupidly". This response, needless to say, set off a firestorm; not just from the Cambridge Police Department, but from many police departments across the United States!

It turns out that the guy who was arrested was taken into custody, when a neighbor saw him trying to break in to the house! He was a 50-something black professor from Harvard, but the cops responded to the call and the professor behaved in a less than professional manner, and refused to give any i.d. that would prove he lived in the house! He then began insulting the cops, and was taken into custody. A huge deal that didn't need to happen. However, it seems to me, that the professor has a huge chip on his shoulder, and was entirely too excited to create a little bru-haha where HE was the victim of discrimination!

After realizing that he probably didn't need to speak out on this (fairly insignificant event) the President invited the cop and the prof to the White House for a beer; just to shake hands and forget the whole thing. In my opinion, the President was grossly over-generalizing when he assumed that every cop from Boston is going to drink beer! I guess no matter what, we all have generalized opinions, but some are more dangerous than others.