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| Obama hosts beer reunion to defuse |
| Obama hosts beer reunion to defuse racial row
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 1-August-2009
3:37:15 AM |
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In an effort to douse down a racial firestorm, US President Barack Obama had a glass of beer with professor Henry Gates and police Sergeant, who had arrested the Harvard professor for 'disorderly conduct'.
Sitting along a picnic table next to the White House's new swing set, the three were yesterday seen drinking beer from clear glass mugs along and munching peanuts and pretzels served in small silver bowls.
As a later addition, Obama also invited the Vice President, Joe Biden, to what the US media has characterised as the beer summit.
The momentous occasion was part of Obama's effort to calm down the racial firestorm which erupted following the arrest of Gates by Henry Crowly, to which the US President added fuel to the fire by stating that the police acted 'stupidly'.
The controversy that included the offended white police officer and the leading black scholar, who also happened to be an old friend of the President, quickly spiralled into a national issue sparking a fierce debate on racial profiling by law enforcement.
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