Obama Tries to Quell Racial Uproar!!!

President Barack Obama said Friday he called the officer who arrested black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and explained that he didn't mean to malign his department when he said officers "acted stupidly." The conversation with Sgt. James Crowley, ended with Obama inviting the two men to the White House for a beer.

President Barack Obama concedes his words — that a white police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home — were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark. The president personally telephoned the two men, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley, in an effort to end the rancorous back-and-forth over what had transpired and what Obama had said about it. Trying to lighten the situation, he even commiserated with Crowley about reporters on his lawn.

Honestly though this is a step in the right direction, we can't always look at negative happenings and put more dirt on it...its a good start to coming together for a common cause!