Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Professor Gates, the policeman, and community

[Susan Hedgpeth (hedgpeth]

This is very good.  I think you should write a letter to the editor of 
your local paper.


Diane wrote:
> Sitting here in Cambridge Cohousing and watching our fair city
> becoming the center of a national controversy, I can't help thinking
> that if the spirit of cohousing had spread to other neighborhoods in
> Cambridge the whole sad episode might not have happened.   Let us
> imagine that in Professor Gate's neighborhood, a neighborhood by the
> way where the percentage of Harvard professors is probably the highest
> in the world, there had been years of neighborhood meetings and years
> of block parties so that the neighbors knew each other.   Then whoever
> it was who called the police would have known that Professor Gates
> lived in that house and instead of calling the police would have gone
> over to greet the professor, ask how his trip had been, say how nice
> it was to have him back, ask what was wrong with the door, and helped
> him to get into his house.   That's what would have happened in a
> cohousing community if someone saw their neighbor struggling with a
> front door.
>
> Diane Margolis, Cambridge Cohousing and board member of COHO/US
>
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