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Final Thoughts on Beer Summits and Postracial Paradoxes

Jonathan Rieder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Rieder

Now that the dust from the Gates dust-up has settled, a bit of perspective is in order. Glib invocations of a color-blind society were always too breathless.

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What to Do When You Don't Know the Answer

Jerry Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerry Weissman

It's perfectly permissible to admit that you are not the repository of every minute fact known to humankind. No one expects you to be a walking encyclopedia.

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The Destruction of the Black Middle Class

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment -- or, we should say, re-impoverishment -- of African Americans as a group.

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Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Kisslinger

One meaning of the word stupid relates to being "stupefied." By its definition, I think Crowley and Gates were probably both stupefied by the situation that escalated in the Professor's home.

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Beer Summit Details: Obama Hails "Friendly, Thoughtful Conversation" (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: President Obama issued the following statement after his "beer summit" with Sergeant James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr.: "I am thankful...

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Todd Purdum: Obama, Crowley, Gates Should Drink Same Beer

Vanity Fair | By Todd S. Purdum | Posted 05.25.2011

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This strikes me as terrible idea, a sign of all that is wrong with America, and a metaphor for all the distance that still divides Harvard professors ...

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Beer Summit

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

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Giles Slade

Nobody has the right to obstruct anyone else's pursuit of happiness. Have a brewski, and chill. For God's sake! Let's get the wheels back on the wagon.

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Just a Minute: Beer Profiling

Harry Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harry Smith

As the big summit meeting at the White House draws closer, I'm wondering what we can learn from the beer preferences of Henry Louis Gates and James Crowley.

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Open Memo to President Barack Obama

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clarence B. Jones

A Presidential National Commission of Race and Reconciliation is something you should now seriously consider, President Obama. If not you, who? If not now, when?

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