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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 25 > Obama rushes to quell racial uproar he helped fire

Obama rushes to quell racial uproar he helped fire

By Nancy Benac / The Bulletin
July 25, 2009

WASHINGTON — Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the....

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