Maureen Dowd’s column today is about the Crowley-Gates affair. It’s thoughtfully written and makes several good points, but I want to zoom in on this part:
How can they ever reconcile their accounts? Crowley says he asked Gates to come outside and the professor replied, “Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside.” Gates wryly suggests Crowley got the line from watching “Good Times” as a child.
“Does it sound logical that I would talk about the mother of a big white guy with a gun?” he asked. “I’m 5-7 and 150 pounds. I don’t walk on ice, much less (expletive) with some cop in my kitchen. I don’t want another hip replacement.”
That line does sound a tad like a white guy’s idea of how a black man talks.
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