What a pleasure it is to discover and to read such a meticulous and thoughtful rendering of a very important story. Thank you for the terrific writing and careful analysis, Mr. Burnett. You have gained a new reader. What astonished me the most from this incident is the readiness of a majority of comment posters from a wide assortment of blogs to point the "race card" finger at Dr. Gates while discounting the details and facts of the case. (There are too many examples to cite and frankly I'm too tired from reading them to have to regurgitate it in order to make my point.) At the end of the day, it really saddens me that this is reflective of the larger picture of race in America. There's so much work ahead.