Media too obsessed with professor’s arrest

It's too bad that with all the important issues facing our country, the media is obsessing about a black Harvard professor who was arrested in his own home. It's yet another crazy media diversion.

President Obama should have refrained from offering his opinion, but it is understandable. I think the vast majority of black folks (and lots of white folks, like me), hearing about a black man arrested in his home by a white cop and reflecting upon hundreds of years of history, will err (and, of course, in the vast majority of cases it isn't an error) on the side of thinking an injustice may have been done.

White conservatives like Rush Limbaugh see it differently, of course. Apparently they think it's OK to arrest black men for getting uppity in their own homes.

Does anyone doubt that Rush would also have lost his temper if a policeman, black or otherwise, had tried to arrest him in his home under similar circumstances?

Dorothy Sandbrook

Marion