Colin Powell’s Response to the Gates Affair

By: loganyung (Diary)  |  July 29th at 12:29 PM  | 

It’s great that Colin Powell said yesterday that Gates was in the wrong and that Obama shouldn’t have commented. What was interesting, though, was that Powell used his own situation to explain why Gates may have overreacted. Powell explained that, in National Airport, he was not recognized by Airport Security, even though he was the National Security Advisor. He said that he was just seen as a another black | Read More »