First Black President

The Meaning of Manslaughter?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

The United States has elected its first black president, and yet our struggle for human dignity and mutual respect is hardly over. In the same electio...

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

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Who Needs the Right When the Left Has Itself?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is the nub of it for me with the Lefties: they do not truly understand who they are, nor what they are motivated by. The slightest bump in the road leads to anarchy or dissent.

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Burris: My Career Made Obama Presidency Possible

Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Speaking this morning at a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast, the state's new junior U.S. senator, Roland Burris said that without Burris' own trailbla...

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An Odd Perspective on Race

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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We would be much more accurate, and would distance ourselves from a troubling racism, if we rejoiced in electing Obama as the first American president of African descent.

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Flashback: The First Black (Fictional) President

David Wallechinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 1964, my father, Irving Wallace, wrote a novel, The Man, about the first black president. For this, my father received both accolades and death threats.

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Martin Luther King's Black President Prediction: New Interview Footage

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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BBC World News America has unearthed a fascinating clip of Dr Martin Luther King speaking to the BBC's Bob McKenzie in 1964 in which Dr King predicts ...

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An Open Letter to Frederick Douglass, Upon the Inauguration of President Obama

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Like millions of white Americans, I voted for our new black President, and I did so with confidence and enthusiasm, as I would have voted for a savior come to rescue our nation.

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Have We Overcome?

Lara M. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In spite of Obama's election, what America has not given up and seems loathe to give up, regardless how far backward we move socially, morally, and legally, is religion.

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Did Tiger Woods Pave the Way for Barack Obama?

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's impossible to know for sure what Woods has done over the last decade to soften up white America for a black presidential candidate with similar qualities.

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PRESIDENTS OBAMA AND PALMER

Eugene Linden | Posted 05.25.2011

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If ever there was a year for a Democratic president to be elected, this was it - a war without end, imploding economy, the most unpopular incumbent in...

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The America That Can Be/The America That Has Been

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Barack Obama and John McCain, we representatives of an emerging set of values and an enduring tradition. But we didn't get the sort of constructive debate between these traditions showing the value of each.

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Two Years of Inspiration

Deanie Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have never seen a more exciting demonstration of democracy in action than what I have witnessed in the past two years, since I first read both of Obama's books and signed on as a volunteer.

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Somewhat More Visible Man

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011

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I remember as a child in school in the late 60s and 70s hearing how in America anyone can grow up to be President, and knowing that it was a lie, knowing that if America had the balls to bet her glory on that statement, America would lose.

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Hope. Not Faith.

Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.

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"Chocolate News": Obama's Not Black (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Alan Grier, host of Comedy Central's new "Chocolate News," questions whether Barack Obama would really be the "first black president." After all...

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Michelle Obama: So 21st Century

Adele Stan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Obama's Convention speech should go a long way to reassuring Joe Average, if not Joe Wingnut, that Michelle Obama has figured out how to be a first lady for her time.

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America's Robotic Applause

Dennis Perrin | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's one thing to be told that you're living in historic times. It's another to be told that not only must you happily appreciate this, you should applaud the fact, regardless of personal doubts.

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