Prof. Goodwin's Op/Ed in The Plain Dealer About Lack of Women In National Dialogue Over Gates Arrest

Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin critiques the firestorm over Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates's arrest and the subsequent invitation by President Obama to the White House in her op/ed, "Women Not Invited to National Dialogue" in Cleveland's The Plain Dealer. Goodwin argues that missing from the unfolding dialogue and the White House meeting, were women, particularly the 911 caller. She urges, that "women are central to the dialogues on race and class in the United States, but too often absent from the discussion, even in the media, and now at the White House. On July 25th, the New York Times organized an illustrious panel of six lawyers, academics, and officers to discuss the Gates case, noticeably absent were women."