I suppose Lucia Whalen is what's known as "collateral damage" in the war begun by Obama supporting racialists over the Gates Affair.Whalen is the good citizen who called 911 when she saw what she believed were strangers trying to break into Gates' house. Media reports hinted that the reason she called the police was that the men were black, implying that if they were white, she wouldn't have called it in.The facts tell a different story; Whalen called the police without knowing the race of the suspicious men. This, according to a story in the Boston Globe by John R. Ellement and Matt Collette:The woman, identified in a police report on file in Cambridge District Court as 40-year-old Lucia Whalen, saw the backs of both men and did not know their race when she called 911, said Wendy J. Murphy, a Boston lawyer from New England School of Law. Whalen phoned police, Murphy said, because she was aware of recent break-ins in the area.In an interview last night, Cambridge Police...(Read Full Post)