Obama And Race: Most Whites Open To Black President, But Hate Groups Growing
The Washington Post reports "an overwhelming public openness to the idea of electing an African American to the presidency." In a Post-ABC News poll...
The Washington Post reports "an overwhelming public openness to the idea of electing an African American to the presidency." In a Post-ABC News poll...
Justin Frank | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Some voters are passionately drawn to Obama because he not only promises change from divisive Washington politics, but also because he evokes infantile yearnings to live without psychic division.
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.05.2008 | Life
Americans. They are the most educated people in the world, but the least educated about the world. They can't tell the difference between a Pakistani or a Palestinian. An Indian or an Iranian.
Terry Real | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Perhaps Wright felt that Obama did not stand up for him enough and this is payback, or perhaps he feels that his cause is so righteous that devil damn the consequences.
Bob Franken | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
The word "electability" is another term for "voter racism." The Clinton camp keeps talking in code about Obama's race and then squeals in red-faced outrage when they're called on it.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a g...
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Obama has taken something that is an absolute and undeniable truth (race relations are a problem in America) and attached it to something that is flawed and wrong (Wright's hate speech).
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home
Barack Obama spoke with eloquent words about our need to overcome the racial stalemate that exists in this country. But how will voters in Pennsylvania react to the issue of race being inserted into their primary?
Roberto Lovato | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
DLC operatives recognize how quickly the political process is moving past the black-white racial politics towards a Sunbelt strategy targeting a more diverse country.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Time will tell whether voters accept Obama's challenge or whether we remember the speech as a great moment that gave his rivals the means of his political downfall.
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?
Trey Ellis | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Obama's willingness to cowboy up and face all the accusations at the same time has been breathtaking in its transparency.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
The 'Nevada phenomenon' is the mix of wariness, fear, indifference and even hostility of the majority of Latino voters toward a black candidate.
Eliseo Medina and Gerry Hudson | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Martin Luther King's dream is no less than the American dream, a dream that lives on and impels us to constantly ask ourselves the question: does freedom ring in America today?
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
A series of comments from Senator Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the pr...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
We are hardly entering the age of race invisibility in politics. Instead, Iowa points us towards the age of invisible race politics.
Anne M. Plant | Posted 11.14.2007 | Life
Veteran's Day is about serving something larger than yourself, larger than your own life because that is what you risk when you take the solemn oath. There is always the risk of war- just or unjust- the soldier doesn't get a choice.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 11.12.2007 | Life
Barack Obama has a genuine shot at the presidency because Tiger Woods has altered how Americans view a talented black man in pursuit of a goal historically reserved for white guys.
Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
Somewhere W.E.B. DuBois is feverishly gluing hair to his head so he can tear it out in frustration, and Martin Luther King Jr. is limbering up so he can spin in his grave without throwing out a hip.
LA Times | Greg Braxton | Posted 10.02.2007 | Entertainment
Race relations are taking a starring role in several new culturally-tinged series this fall. Fox's "K-Ville," ABC's "Cavemen," CBS' "Cane," and the CW...
The Guardian (U.K.) | Angus Shaw | Posted 09.27.2007 | Home
White Zimbabweans found themselves a step closer to losing control of their businesses to black people yesterday as a result of new government legisla...
Chi | Posted 09.20.2007 | Home
The Rev. Jesse Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday night he doubted a flare-up over a remark attributed to him about White House hopeful S...
New York Times | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics
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The Huffington Post | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics