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Barack Obama's Test...And Ours

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted March 23, 2008 | Off The Bus

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What a difference a week makes.

The Friday before Good Friday, I began my weekend with a sick feeling in my stomach that returned every time I switched on the news. Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, was everywhere. The pastor's incendiary remarks...

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Placing Reverend Wright's Sermons In Context

Lonnee Hamilton | Posted March 21, 2008 | Off The Bus

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a patriot and a man who loves his country.

Fox News has become nothing more than a propaganda arm of the right-wing. Host Sean Hannity is a friend of a known neo Nazi and unfortunately the "conservative agenda" is enmeshed with the "white...

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

Mayhill Fowler | Posted March 21, 2008 | Off The Bus

Cable TV and its various punditocracies don't want a more perfect union. Television news, like all theater, captures its audience through dramatizing conflict. It thrives on discord. Resolution and unity are fifth act business; news shows run in a continuous loop between acts three and four. This generalization is unfair...

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The Good Radical Within

Bill Parent | Posted March 20, 2008 | Off The Bus

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. It's real stuff. It is shared in some measure by many if not most African Americans...

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Obama's Theology Of Reconciliation And Perfection

Gene Koo | Posted March 20, 2008 | Off The Bus

While Senator Obama's address on Tuesday has largely been received as a call to national dialogue about race, the 37-minute speech also revealed much about his religious and spiritual views. In it, Obama clearly invokes core Christian principles and beliefs, from original sin to God's grace. "Perfection" was his refrain...

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How to Deal with the Historic '08 Candidacies

Will Durst | Posted March 20, 2008 | Politics

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Obama Speech: Religious Groups, Universities Respond

NY Times | March 20, 2008 09:13 AM

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 commentators and politicians debated its political success Wednesday, some around the country were responding to Mr....

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

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | March 19, 2008 06:34 PM

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 campaign (if not that most warmly received speech — though it's duking it out...

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Obama on Race vs. Romney on Religion

James Freedman | Posted March 19, 2008 | Off The Bus

To many in the media, Barack Obama's race speech yesterday morning was strangely reminiscent of a moment involving Mitt Romney earlier on in the campaign season, when Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted? Let's review.

Obama spoke from...

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A More Perfect Union? Yes, We Can

Lecia Shorter | Posted March 19, 2008 | Off The Bus

Senator Obama gave a speech yesterday which will most likely be considered one of the most brilliant, profound and transformative speeches of his political career. The speech not only forced me to acknowledge my own anger as an African American, but I was forced to consider the genesis of the...

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Olbermann on Obama: An Audition For President

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | March 19, 2008 08:12 AM

Howard Kurtz's "Listen, dude, do you really want the sex?" segment was so good, someone else had it five days earlier: Dan Abrams and his crew -- including the same clips in the same order from the same reporters.

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Obama Discusses Speech: "I Have No Idea How This Plays Out Politically"

| March 19, 2008 12:09 AM

Following his big speech on race Tuesday in Philadelphia, Obama sat down with ABC's "Nightline" and reflected on its potential impact: Obama believes giving a speech on race was necessary but concedes that it is a politically risky move. By...

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Our Joshua

Mary Lyon | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics

"I may not get there with you..."

So said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once upon a time, talking about a figurative Promised Land that he himself would indeed never reach. It was a Moses reference, with the Promised Land in this case being the Land of the Free and...

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Obama Cracks My TV in Half

Adam McKay | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics

It didn't make sense. A politician responding to a TV news scandal during an election and he's not on the attack or the defensive. Instead he's asking us to look at the forces that shape our feelings on race and understand them. My first reaction was to call DirecTV. Clearly...

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Can America Recognize Greatness When it Sees it?

Harold Pollack | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics

I don't know whether Senator Obama will prove to be a great politician or a great president. He has made mistakes, like everyone else on the campaign trail. Circumstance sometimes forces him to be a fairly conventional politician. At times, though, the moment leads him to be something more. This...

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A Sermon of Obama's Own

Ferentz LaFargue | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics

When friends ask me why I'm supporting Barack Obama I enjoy saying it's because of his name. As a fellow former black kid with a funny name, I believe there are certain invaluable lessons that one learns while growing up in this country with a "non-traditional" American or Anglo-Saxon name....

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Obama's Challenge to American Voters

Gov. Deval Patrick | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics

I watched a candidate I already knew was exceptional become a statesman today.

In his speech on America's racial divide, Barack Obama was honest, direct, personal and strong without being strident. He told unvarnished and complex truths about his own life in black and white communities he has known...

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Obama Race Speech: Read The Full Text

The Huffington Post | March 18, 2008 10:15 AM

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama "A More Perfect Union" Constitution Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Watch the entire speech and read the text below the video player: "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty...

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