The recent Henry Louis Gates arrest escalated the already tense issue of race relations and more specifically the issue of racial profiling to a national level. The situation has been exploited by the media to the point of dubbing it the end of the pre-racial Obama administration. Upon closer examination however, the Gates issue illustrates a comedy of errors, not a clear and legitimate example of racial profiling that can be used to paint broad strokes in our current political climate.
This comedy of errors starts with the victim …