Skip Gates may have enjoyed last night’s beer-fest, but his colleague, Prof. Ruth Wisse, isn’t feeling the same buzz, and she has penned a bold letter to Gates in today’s Crimson. Assuring she was initially concerned about Gates’s welfare, Wisse writes:

But thereafter your case becomes disturbing, and while the president’s unwise comments turned a local episode into a national referendum, it’s the local issue that troubles me. Like you, I live in Cambridge, commonly known as the “People’s Republic of Cambridge” for its left-leaning political correctness. Our congressional district has not sent a Republican to Washington since 1955. Not surprisingly, the officers who came to your door — a rainbow of black, Hispanic, and white — were led by a man hand-picked to provide training on the avoidance of bias in policing. To accuse the Cambridge police of racial profiling, as you did, is about as credible as charging Barack Obama with favoring Republicans.

Wisse goes on to accuse Gates of diminishing the authority of the police and, moreover, “trying to keep alive the politically potent appeal to liberal guilt.” The letter is worth reading in full here.