Obama was going to a have a beer — that all-American bonding gesture — with the two men he joined last week at the center of an uproar over race in America: Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley.
 
After Crowley investigated a potential burglary at Gates' house — and ended up arresting the protesting professor for disorderly conduct — the episode exploded into a national debate on racial profiling. Obama added fuel to the fire when he declared in a prime-time news conference that the police "acted stupidly." The charge against Gates was later dropped.
 
I have always said “That if people would just sit down and have a beer together it would solve most of our problems"
 
My cup is raised to Sgt. James Crowley for suggesting having a beer and talking about the silliness that happened Thursday evening with a black professor and the white police officer.

 As every beer drinker knows. Beer has a bonding quality about it.

I think that July 30th should be "Have a Beer With Someone You Don't Like Day" maybe we could work out our differences or at least have a laugh together. So let all get together have a beer. Maybe the world would be better off
Cheers