White House Beer Tastes Better

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Politics • Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 3:16 pm PDT • Views: 320

Beer — the universal language.

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said he accepted an invitation to have a beer with the white police officer who arrested him this week.

Gates, a black scholar, in a statement posted late Friday at The Root, accepted President Obama’s invitation to come to the White House and have a beer together with Sgt. James Crowley and the president while saying he wanted to use his “unfortunate experience … to diminish racial profiling.”

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