2008 Election and Race

What Do Whites Want? Why The Papers Are Getting The Race Polls Wrong

Jeff Chang | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics


Jeff Chang

Today's NY Times poll -- which has turned into a game of "White People: So You Think You're Not Racist?"-- found that Blacks really love Obama and whites kinda like McCain. Good work, fellas!

Ghosts of 1960

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics


Robert S. McElvaine

For all the advantages that Barack Obama has this year, the same problems that nearly led to Kennedy losing to Nixon are lurking just below the surface of the 2008 political landscape.

Race, Ethnicity and the 2008 General Election

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics


Reese Schonfeld

Poverty trumps ethnicity as a factor determining voter preference: if the dollar continues to sink, voters will vote their pocketbooks rather than their prejudices and Obama will glide into the Oval Office.

When Rove Calls Obama Arrogant, He Means "Uppity"

John Ridley | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics


John Ridley

Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. Arrogant, of course, is a euphemism. In the monochromatic bunkers from which old-schoolers cling to power the true word they use is "uppity" when hurled at blacks.

Michelle Obama is Nobody's "Baby Mama"

Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

Michelle Obama is no "baby mama". I still am dumbfounded by what an offensive, insensitive, racially charged reference Fox News made.

There'll be "Race Riots" in The Streets?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

Michelle Bernard, with her supremely irresponsible, reckless, race-baiting comment, was abruptly cut-off by an incredulous Chris Matthews as he closed last night's show.

Barack Ends His Relationship With Reverend Wright

Steven G. Brant | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics


Steven G. Brant

Senator Obama, you have made a wise choice. You may be in a fight with Rev. Wright for the duration of your campaign, but you will be seen as being on the right side... the progressive side

Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary's Seward?

Manisha Sinha | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics


Manisha Sinha

The Democratic presidential nomination bears some startling similarities to the 1860 Republican race between Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and William Henry Seward of New York.

Pennsylvania & the Persistence of the Race Chasm

David Sirota | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

Those who continue to pretend race is not a major factor in this campaign are deliberately averting their eyes from a very powerful force in the Democratic primary.

Does Obama Transcend Race?

Caryl Rivers | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics


Caryl Rivers

Even though the cool, urbane, extremely rational Obama is the antithesis of the hate-spewing radical, that is the image that the Republicans will surely use if he is the nominee.

Standing Sexual Politics on Its Head

Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


Ellen Feldman

The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.

Events Prove Race Chasm Article Correct

David Sirota | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

Earlier this week, I published a piece about what I called the Race Chasm, and how it relates to Clinton campaign's strategy. I made some fairly bold assertions in the article, which some readers questioned.

Calling "These People" Out: More On the Increasingly Tiresome -- And Dangerous -- Obama/Clinton Divide

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics


Erin Kotecki Vest

The pundits would like to see (and, sadly, are now seeing) women tearing each other apart, in this election season, within variously productive and destructive discourses of identity politics.

Curb Your Enthusiasm Meets Barack Obama

Michael Smerconish | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics


Michael Smerconish

I exited Obama's speech last week thinking that if I ultimately do not vote for Obama, it will be for reasons other than his minister.

Me and Anonymous: A Conversation

Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics


Rebecca Walker

The suggestion that women are monolithic and asleep and need to "wake up" is part of the problem endemic to Second Wave Feminism.

Racism and Rankism: We Won't Eradicate the One Until We Take on the Other

Robert Fuller | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics


Robert Fuller

We can learn to disallow the indignities that result from abuses of the power signified by rank much as we are learning to disallow color as grounds for discrimination.

Obama, Reverend Wright, The Speech: A Problem and An Unanticipated Upside

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics


Thomas de Zengotita

There may not be a place in this culture for a history-making speech anymore -- I mean literally, no room for something of lasting value to sit there and be itself, to sink in and define the moment.

Obama's Philadelphia Address: All the "Right Stuff"

James Zogby | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics


James Zogby

There will be those who will attempt to pick apart Obama's speech, seeing not enough here or too much there. Those who do not want to heal the divide will inevitably find fault.

White Guilt Not the Problem with Obama Surge

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Race is still such a taboo subject that pricks so many fears and sensibilities, that the media and much of the public has given Obama a feather touch when it comes to a laser scrutiny of his past.

Theater of the Patently Absurd or "Bitch Is the New Black"

David Dante Troutt | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics


David Dante Troutt

The central flaw in Ferraro's remarks is a conflation commonly made in talk about race: the difference between equality and symmetry.

A Post-Racial Society

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media


Mario Solis-Marich

I think my favorite benchmark of our post-racial society will be the birth of our post-racial champions on race. Add to the top of the list Keith Olbermann.

Bottom of the Ticket, Back of the Bus: Hillary Clinton's Racist Campaign

John Eskow | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics


John Eskow

Instead of asking when did the racism of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Obama begin, one is now forced to ask: has it ever been run without racism?

Pssst...Barack Obama is a Black Dude

Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Seth Grahame-Smith

When you're up against a guy who spent five years getting his limbs broken in a pool of his own filth, running away from a point that you've made yourself in paperback isn't the best way to look tough.

Still Hung Up on Geraldine

Jennifer Lehr | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Jennifer Lehr

Hillary started out with a lot of black support. After all, her husband had been called "The First Black President." It was up to her to keep that support alive.

Ferraro's Race Argument Isn't Insulting to Obama; It's Insulting to Democrats

Eric Deggans | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Eric Deggans

This is the way Dems will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in this election: allowing dunderheads like Ferraro to drive wedges between a coalition poised to unseat the Republicans in November.


 

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