If you are reading this blog you are not shocked (shocked!) to discover there is still racial injustice in the criminal justice system. So for CLAWSTERS, who are pretty well steeped in this stuff, here are some off beat conversation starters.**The sit-down over beer in the Rose Garden. Who drank what? (Crowley had Blue Moon, Gates had Red Stripe, the President had Bud Light.)
**Soothe it with alcohol? (See David Letterman commenting on it being the first kegger in the White House since the Bush Twins, and adding "alcohol usually cools things off — have you noticed that?")
**Is it true that Crowley is one of the only non-racist cops on the Boston police force? (See Maureen Dowd on how the daughter-of-a-cop crowd feels).
**So what did happen to Crowley? (See Former Federal Defender Inga Parsons and Slate's Christopher Hitchens explaining why the problem is more about cop anger management than race.)
**And should we all be going out for beers? (See Jon Stewart simulating the historic Rose Garden beer summit at a local happy hour.)
**Finally, where did race fit in in that uniquely Cambridge scenario? (See Vintage Chris Rock on how it ain't always about being black ("If O.J. drove a bus, he wouldn't even be O.J.—he'd have been Orenthal the bus-driving murderer") and the Black Take (from the Daily Show's Senior Black Correspondent, Larry Wilmore) that Professor Gates just forgot he was black.
