The Corner  The one and only.  Who Is Owed an Apology?   As one
might have expected, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates will
not face criminal charges after being arrested for disorderly
conduct in Cambridge, Mass., last Thursday.  (Jonah discussed
the incident in previous posts here and here.) Distilling the
affair to its barest details, police were called to Gates’s
residence when a passerby saw two black men, whom they later
learned were Gates himself and a limousine driver, appear to be
breaking into the home. According to the police account, Gates
accused the officers of mistreating him because of his race, and
he became belligerent to the point that he ran afoul of the
Massachusetts law against disorderly conduct.  Gates denied the
allegation and now suggests that the involved officer apologize
to him. “If he apologizes sincerely,” Gates told a Boston Globe
reporter, “I am willing to forgive him. And if he admits his
error, I am willing to educate him about the history of racism
in America and the issu