Obama Speech Race

Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary's Seward?

Manisha Sinha | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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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.

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The Story I Didn't Tell You

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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As I watch the race issue unfold in this election, I wonder how many more grandfathers are out there -- the ones who think voting for a woman is a much better option than voting for a black man.

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The Toxic Power of Racism

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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A growing body of research during the past few years indicates that one of the most glaring inequalities experienced by African-Americans is the disparity in health care that they receive.

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Barack Obama on the U.S. Constitution

William Hogeland | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Obama's speech didn't seek merely to contrast the glories of the Constitution with the scarring effects of racism in America. It sought to relate that contrast to the candidate's inability to disavow his pastor.

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A Letter to Howard

Henry Bean | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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In the evident terror from both the GOP and the Clinton campaign that they are up against a potentially great man who must, therefore, be destroyed, we encounter again, the politics of hate.

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Obama's Real Challenge: Shifting the Collective Consciousness

Pamela Gerloff | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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Obama's speech revealed that he is the only candidate in this election who even comes close to understanding the underlying mechanics of societal change.

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Barack Obama's Test...And Ours

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

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The controversy with Rev. Wright, for better or worse politically, strips away the fantasy some voters may have entertained that Barack Obama was just a white man in blackface, utterly isolated and insulated from the racial struggles of the nation where he spent most of his life.

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My Take

Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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I read Obama's speech because I couldn't bear to watch pundits rip it to shreds. I still have no idea how it's being spun, but if he spoke what I read, he showed up for the show down, and won.

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We, The O-Boomers

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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We O-boomers are, I fear, ready to be disappointed by a President Obama. It's a well-worn reflex with us. But we can sense at least the mathematical possibility of some refreshing change if he is elected.

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What Barack Obama Could Not (and Should Not) Say

Sam Harris | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

Like every candidate, Obama must appeal to millions of voters who believe that without religion, most of us would spend our days raping and killing our neighbors and stealing their pornography.

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Placing Reverend Wright's Sermons In Context

Lonnee Hamilton | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Our media is in a terrible state when ordinary citizens doing a Google search can do a better job than some of the highest paid "journalists" in the country.

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Some Blues for Mr. Charlie: Obama's Moment of Truth

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

It took the firestorm over Rev. Wright's sermons to show just how real white fears and white naivete remain four full decades after the murder of Martin King.

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TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

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The Good Radical Within

Bill Parent | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger.

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Obama's Theology Of Reconciliation And Perfection

Gene Koo | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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Obama offers a theology grounded in a process, not an outcome: to work out salvation with fear and trembling. His professed beliefs puts him at odds not only with the president, but his own pastor.

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

Robert Fuller | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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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.

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Mars, Venus and the Election

Bob Franken | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Now that we've heard Obama's speech on racial antagonism in America, it's time for the address from Hillary on the division that is even deeper in our country -- the divide over gender.

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How to Deal with the Historic '08 Candidacies

Will Durst | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Since all three candidates have proven to be a bit, shall we say, delicate, a hastily compiled handy reference guide is in order.

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Obama Speech: Religious Groups, Universities Respond

NY Times | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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The speech Senator Barack Obama delivered Tuesday morning has been viewed more than 1.6 million times on YouTube and is being widely e-mailed. While c...

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No Country for Old (Black) Men

David Dante Troutt | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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What may be most radical about Obama's approach is that he believes he can somehow reveal to a divided electorate the falsity of their standard fault lines and lead them to a unity of interests.

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My Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Tavis Smiley | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses yesterday's speech by Barack Obama on race in America.

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Jon Stewart Gets All Earnest On Us! Obama Race Speech "Spoke To Americans As Though They Were Adults"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media

Jon Stewart and the Daily Show gang have had easier targets of mockery than Barack Obama delivering one of the most warmly received speeches of the ca...

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The Meanings of Obama's Speech

Drew Westen | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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Obama did more than talk about race. He began to build a progressive narrative that Democrats, and the progressive movement more broadly, have had difficulty developing.

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Obama on Race vs. Romney on Religion

James Freedman | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Many in the media noted Barack Obama's speech yesterday morning was reminiscent when Mitt Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted?

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The Media Needs to Fess Up to Its Mess and Its Responsibility: Time for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to Take a Look

Michael Yaki | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media

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Never have we asked the media what they believe their role has been and continues to be in shaping the entire question of race in this country for their audience, the American people.

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