I Want My Beer With Obama!

Okay, let's dumb this down. Cops versus Professors. I'm betting on the cops every time.

I am a black man whose had his share of run-ins with racists and the law and the convergence of the two. I've been stopped for driving while black. I have to admit, a couple of times it was for driving way over the speed limit while black. But that's not the point.

Every guy knows, regardless of color or pursuasion, even the President knows, you just don't do what the professor done did.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., scholar, intellectual and champion of the race, simply- broke one of the most cardinal of all cardinal man-laws: Don't pop off at the cops!

Then he goes and sprinkles pixy dust under the officer's nose by whipping out the realy big one -- his Harvard ID. K'mon. Man-up. Grow a pair. If not, at least have the smarts to do a Rodney King. Fall down, curl up in a ball, cover your jewels and take your lumps.

I am neither excusing nor making light of police brutality or racial profiling. I am from Chicago.

What I am saying is that branders like us can take this incident as an allagorical example of what it is important to remember: When times get tough, real men respect other men, who act like men. It's just that simple. It's like having a beer with the fellas.

MasterCard gets it with their "Break In Your Jeans" campaign. Watch the TV spot.