Gates Says 'Yes' to Beer With Crowley

In a statement to The Root, the Harvard professor says he would meet with the cop who arrested him, as President Obama has suggested.

By: The Root Staff

Statement from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"It was very kind of the President to phone me today. Vernon Jordan is absolutely correct: my unfortunate experience will only have a larger meaning if we can all use this to diminish racial profiling and to enhance fairness and equity in the criminal justice system for poor people and for people of color.

Gates Says 'Yes' to Beer With Crowley....