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A transformation on race: Barack Obama's "post-racial" posture reflects a quiet but radical shift in liberal ideas about race in America.(Culture and Reviews)(Critical essay)

Article from: Reason Article date: November 01, 2008 Author: Moynihan, Michael C.

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Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal, by Randall Kennedy, New York: Pantheon. 228 pages, $22.00

Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness, by John L. Jackson, Jr., New York: Basic Civitas, 274 pages, $26.00

WHEN New York magazine's "race issue" hit newsstands in early August, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama held a formidable, though hardly insurmountable, lead over Republican rival John McCain--49 percent to 41 percent, according to Gallup's daily tracking poll. Despite Obama's advantage, an article ...

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What Jackson Problem? Waning Clout Signals Shift

Posted Jul 11, 08 7:48 AM CDT in Politics 

What Jackson Problem? Waning Clout Signals Shift
Source: AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels

(Newser) – Once, Democrats worried about “the Jesse Jackson problem,” the fear that rebuke from Jackson would cost them black voters. But now, some Democrats are saying that Jackson’s latest criticisms of Barack Obama may actually help the Illinois senator, the New York Times reports, both with white voters still worried that Obama’s too extreme, and black voters who think Jackson’s an outmoded figure.

Jackson’s 1988 presidential run now seems like a distant memory, and the idea that he could sour an excited black community on Obama seems absurd to many. “This moment only reinforces that we have to let the younger guys take the lead in politics, that they know the issues of today, that we live in a far different world than 20 years ago,” said Michael Dukakis.

Source: New York Times

More about:  Barack Obama • race relations • Jesse Jackson • black voters • black culture

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(Newser) - Scan the faces in the Xcel Energy Center, and you’ll see a sea of white. This year’s Republican National Convention is the whitest on record, the Washington Post reports, with just 36 black delegates —out of 2,380. “It’s hard to look around and not get frustrated,” says Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland and the convention's only black primetime speaker. More »

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Move Over Jesse, This Is Obama's House

The rev hates Barack because he represents the 'anti-Jackson'

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Jul 22, 08 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - If threats of castration are any indication, Barack Obama has gotten under Jesse Jackson's skin, writes Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal . The Illinois senator has eclipsed the reverend by effectively becoming the anti-Jackson—rather than playing off moral leverage created out of white guilt, Obama "became the first viable black presidential candidate precisely by giving up his moral leverage over whites." More »

More about:  Barack Obama • race relations • African Americans • Jesse Jackson • white guilt

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Jesse Jr.
Scolds Dad for 'Ugly Rhetoric'

Jackson's son rejects his father's 'divisive' Obama comments

Washington Post Washington Post Jul 9, 08 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson is taking heat for his admittedly "crude and hurtful" comments about Barack Obama, and his own son is leading the charge. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed," said Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. Jackson called his father's remarks—in which he said he wanted to cut Obama's "n*** out" for "talking down to black people"—"divisive and demeaning" and said they undercut the elder Jackson's long fight for civil rights, the Washington Post reports. More »

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