Henry Louis Gates Jr., center, the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, is accusing the Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the front door of his home last week. The police said he "exhibited loud and tumultuous behaviour". Gates shouted to a police officer "this is what happens to a black men in America" according to a police report. (B. Carter -- Demotix Images)

CAMBRIDGE—Finally able to relate to upper class Black Americans, thousands of impoverished Black teens are suddenly interested in Black history and genealogy after the recent false arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose moniker has changed from "Skip" to "Skip Dawg."

The Harvard scholar said that during his brief incarceration twelve young, Black men asked him to get them an application for Harvard University so they could earn a degree, get a house in the suburbs and still get harassed by the police.

Skip Dawg even went as far as to say that he almost “bust a cap” in the popo, but he didn’t have time to get to his “gat.”