President Obama invited Sergeant Jim Crowley and Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to the White house for a beer. Even though the gesture is good and symbolic, America still has a long way to go when it comes to race relations. This case was just a reminder to the collective that race is and will always be a source of division in America.

Sergent Crowley did not invent racism. This country is all about race. This is a part of American  history haunting America. A couple of glasses of beer won’t resolve the challenges of daily people who suffer injustices and all types of racism, discrimination, and exclusion.

I have one regret: the absence of the lady who called the police. Her intentions were not to create a media circus, but we need also to recognize the subconscious racism of our society. In her eyes, she saw a “Latino man” with “another guy.” Police and minorities have an old history. As the Kikuyu of Kenya say, “The fly had life even before the dog had its wounds.”