Lecturing the black community is the perfect way to avoid alienating white voters. However, Obama does not share the same history as the African American community he is speaking to.
Dan Treul | Posted 06.15.2008 | Home
There is something culturally sick about defining such a critical election along racial lines alone. This election should not be a referendum on black and white. It should be a referendum on the Bush years.
Byron Williams | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
There is no single American story. And like with the issue of race, there has always been warring factions between those with privilege and those without.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.12.2008 | Media
It was a different sort of doc block last night on MSNBC: First, there was the documentary "Meeting David Wilson," about a young black man, David A. W...
Denise Clapsaddle | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home
Obama has tapped into a deeply felt societal sentiment that now is one of those moments that calls for something more than progress at the rate of one step forward, two steps back. Is he the one to lead us?
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Ben Cohen | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics