In 2000, when Dave Chapelle performed a comedy routine depicting his imagined arrest by police who thought he had broken into his own house and hung photographs of his family on the wall, those outside of the African American speech community may have thought that it was a brilliant comedic representation of police abuse, but an impossible one. Yet nine years later, the Cambridge, Massachusetts police arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for breaking and entering his own home – with pictures of his family and one of himself alongside Nelson Mandela on the wall!