How the Henry Louis Gates 911 call really went:
OPERATOR: 911 [unintelligible] the exact location of your emergency?
CALLER: Hi I’m [cell phone cut out] in Cambridge and the house number is 17 Ware St.
OPERATOR: OK, ma’am, the cell phone cut out. What’s the address again?
CALLER: Sorry. It’s says 7 Ware, that’s W-A-R-E Street …
OPERATOR: The emergency’s at 7 Ware St., right?
CALLER: No it’s 17, I’m sorry. Some other woman’s talking next to me but it’s 17 one-seven Ware St.
OPERATOR: What’s the phone number you’re calling me from?
CALLER: I’m calling you from my cell phone number.
OPERATOR: All right [unintelligible] tell me exactly what’s happened?
CALLER: Well, I don’t know what’s happening. I’m just having an older women standing here and she had noticed two gentlemen trying to get in a house at that number, 17 Ware St., and they kind of had to barge in and thety broke the screen door and they finally got in and when I had looked I went further closer to the house a little bit after the gentlemen were already in the house, I noticed two suitcases. So I’m not sure if these are two individuals who actually work there, I mean who live there.
OPERATOR: You think they might have been breaking in?
CALLER: I don’t know ‘cause I have no idea. I just noticed …
OPERATOR: You think the possibility might have been there? What do you mean by “barged in”? Did they kick the door in?
CALLER: No, they were pushing the door in, like, um, like the screen part of the front door was kind of like cut …
OPERATOR: How about the door itself with the lock?
CALLER: The … I didn’t see a key or anything, ‘cause I was a little bit away from the door. But I did notice that they pushed their …
OPERATOR: Now what do these suitcases have to do with anything?
CALLER: I don’t know. I’m just saying that’s what I saw.
OPERATOR: [Unintelligble] apartment they broke into?
CALLER: No, it’s just the first floor. I don’t think it’s an apartment. It’s 17 Ware St. It’s a house. It’s a yellow house, number 17. I don’t know if they live there and they just had a hard time with their key but I did notice that they kinda used their shoulder to try to barge in and they got in. I don’t know if they had a key or not, and I couldn’t see from my angle. But, you know, when I looked a little closely that’s what I saw.
OPERATOR: Are they white, black, or Hispanic?
CALLER: Um.
OPERATOR: Are they still in the house?
CALLER: They’re still in the house I believe. Yeah.
OPERATOR: Are they white, black, or Hispanic?
CALLER: Um, well there were two larger men. One looked kind of Hispanic but I’m not really sure and the other one entered and I didn’t see what he looked like at all. I just saw it from a distance and this older woman was worried thinking someone’s breaking in someone’s house, they’ve been barging in and she interrupted me and that’s when I noticed. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t have noticed it at all, to be honest with you. So I was just calling ‘cause she was a concerned neighbor, I guess.
OPERATOR: OK. Are you standing outside?
CALLER: I’m standing outside, yes.
OPERATOR: All right, police are on the way. You can meet them when they get there, what’s your name?
CALLER: Yeah, my name is ……
OPERATOR: All right, they’re on their way.
CALLER: OK, I guess I’ll wait. Thanks.
OPERATOR: Bye.
How Professor Gates, our Commander-in-Chief, Al Sharpton, and the rest of the misery merchants heard it:
WARNING: Not for the politically correct or easily offended
OPERATOR: 911 [unintelligible] the exact location of your emergency?
CALLER: Help! Some n****rs are breaking into the house next door!
OPERATOR: OK. Are you standing outside?
CALLER: I’m standing outside, yes.
OPERATOR: All right, police are on the way. And don’t worry, ma’am. We’ll get those n****rs.
CALLER: OK, thanks.
OPERATOR: Bye.
Welcome to the post-racial era.
Michael Graham, in his latest Boston Herald article [h/t Wizbang]: It appears that the only racist that day was Gates.
To that add our post-racial Commander-in-Chief.
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