Original sentence: At a July 22 press conference President Barack Obama was asked for his reaction to the matter.Gates is African American and Crowley is white
Edited sentence: At a July 22 press conference President Obama was asked for his reaction to the matter.Professor Gates’s African-American ethnicity and involvement with studying the history of black Americans, along with a comment on the incident by President Barack Obama, put a national media spotlight on the events.The incident generated national media coverage and a debate about racial issues regarding whether or not it represented an example of racial profiling by police