"Yo Mama..."

So Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who happens to be black and happens to be the director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research for the elite Harvard University, after returning from a trip to China, found that his front door was jammed (or something). So he forced his way into his rented home.

Officers responded to the home Gates rents from Harvard after a woman reported seeing two black men who appeared to be breaking in.

Gates had just returned from a trip overseas and had to force his way into his house in Cambridge because the front door was stuck and wouldn't open.

So as any concerned citizen would do, the woman called police.

The woman who called reported seeing "two black males with backpacks on the porch" of the well-maintained two-story home near the Harvard campus and said one of the men was "wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry," according to Cambridge police.

And then Obama comes to the rescue of his pal at the news conference last night. That was real presidential.

"I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."

But did Obama even read the police report before making any kind of comment?

...Officers responding to the robbery call on Thursday arrived after Gates was already back inside.

They say he became irate, yelled and refused to come outside to speak with an officer, who told him he was investigating a call about a home invasion.

"Why, because I'm a black man in America?" Gates said, according to a police report written by Sgt. James Crowley.

"Gates continued to yell at me, accusing me of racial bias and continued to tell me that I had not heard the last of him," the officer wrote.

......Police wrote in their report that when the sergeant on the scene tried to calm Gates, he shouted "You don't know who your [sic] messing with!", and when it was suggested they talk about the matter outside, he retorted, "Ya, I'll speak with your mama outside."

Birds of a feather....