Gates/Crowley In An Alternative Universe
There are physicists who believe that all quantum possibilities—every point on what they call the “wave function”—actually come true in some universe, somewhere. Right now, guys, at some point in the cosmos a parallel you could be in a hot tub, sipping champagne with your longtime girlfriend, Jessica Biel.
Let’s apply this to the Henry Gates race controversy, and visit an alternative universe where the protagonists behaved in a slightly more reasonable manner during their fateful confrontation.
HENRY GATES: Yes, officers, what’s the problem?
SGT. CROWLEY: Afternoon, sir. We got a call that some people were using their shoulder to push open the front door, and we just wanted to make sure everything was alright.
HG: Yeah, it’s fine, I live here. This is my house. The door was stuck, so we tried to get it unstuck. I ended up having to go around to the back to get in.
SC: Would you mind showing us some identification, sir?
HG: Sure, but tell me you’re not making me do this because I’m black. I just flew back from China, and I’m tired and cranky, and I don’t want to deal with any of that.
SC: Absolutely not… (looking at ID)… Professor Gates. I’ve had a tough day myself. We’re just here to try and make sure your home is protected.
HG: Alright, then. I’ll take your word for it and won’t get upset.
SC: (smiling) Good, because then I’d have to take you in.
(Both men laugh)
HG: So are we good?
SC: We’re good. Have a nice evening, Professor.
HG: You, too. Hey, you wanna come in for beer?
SC: Nah. Maybe some other time.
(You should also note that in this universe, the cable news channels have had a slow week.)
Comments: 11
We all want this kind of nice to happen in a perfect world, don't we? But of course we all know this world is far from perfect. Heck, if it is a perfect world, we don't even need police, or hospital, or the fire dept.
But this scene in alternative universe is still nice to even just read. And yes, in this universe, not only the news channels have a slow week, they may actually have to layoff some people since there is a less demand for news.
Too bad news media can't thrive off good news.
What happened to PIX?
Every anchor and reporter, especially in the morning, always has to tell stories about their personal lives or make horribly unfunny jokes about every story they read off the teleprompter. PIX has definitely gone down the toilet!
PIX'S MORNING NEWS SUCKS !
Do they really need two women to do something as simple as a traffic report !!
How long is it going to be for Prof. Henry Gates
to apologize fror his misjudgment in proper conduct with Sg. Crowley requests doing his job?
Anonymous and JD: Why watch PIX morning news if you think it sucks? Change the channel. By the way - John Muller never says anything personal.
I do not know if the President and Professor Gates and Sgt Crowly made any head way in race relations but I do hope so. The real winners I think were the beer companies that had a chance to promote their beer. This I suppose was great for the economy. Now I have a question and that is who payed for the beer Jim? Oh yes, it was us taxpayers, right !
Hey, moron, what in hell are you trying to say here? --
"How long is it going to be for Prof. Henry Gates
to apologize fror his misjudgment in proper conduct with Sg. Crowley requests doing his job?"
"... with Sg. Crowley requests doing his job?"
Are you for real? Can't you, just for once in your stinking, pathetic life, write a decent sentence?
(You should also note that in this universe, the cable news channels have had a slow week.)
Sad... fortunately for you, Kaity Tong is still anchoring the 10PM news...
Could it be possible in this alternate universe that Prof. Henry Gates is a good parlay player. He may have used this situation to exploit the race card. Anyone with common sense would be helpful to the police who are risking their lives to save lives.
Could it be possible in this alternate universe that Prof. Henry Gates is a good parlay player. He may have used this situation to exploit the race card. Anyone with common sense would be helpful to the police who are risking their lives to save lives.