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OPINION

The Civil War Ended Last Night; Time for Reconstruction

Already a historic prez, Obama can be great

Nov 5, 08 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The American Civil War finally ended last night, writes Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. The struggle that began at Bull Run was brought to a close when white America elected a black American president—the ‘Bradley effect” trumped by the “Buffett effect” of rich... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Obama 2008 • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Civil War • racial equality • Election 2008 • President Obama

OPINION

An Obama
Win Would Belong to LBJ

Run is confirmation of slow change since
Civil Rights Act

Nov 4, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Unless the polls are wrong, the winner of today’s election is clear: Lyndon Baines Johnson. “We have lost the South for a generation,” Johnson said when he signed the Civil Rights Act. Well, “for that generation, time’s up,” Richard Cohen writes in the More »

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Barack Obama • Lyndon Johnson • race relations • Voting Rights Act • Obama 2008 • racial equality • Election 2008

OPINION

 What Obama Means for My Son 

One father's journey through a racially-charged election

Nov 1, 08 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama looks poised to win the presidency, and that would mean a lot for Gary Younge’s infant son. Younge wasn’t always sure it would, the Brooklyn resident writes in the Guardian. "It wasn't that I didn't understand the symbolic importance of his bid. I just did... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Election 2008 • racial tension

OPINION

 Race? Only Thing Obama 
 Transcends Is Logic 

Instead of putting conflict behind us, Dem's crowd perceives insult just about everywhere

Oct 24, 08 8:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is allegedly helping America “transcend race,” Jonah Goldberg writes in the National Review, but if moving beyond race “would involve making race less of an issue,” why are Obama’s fervent supporters obsessed with bringing it up? One columnist sees racism in descriptions of... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrats • race • African Americans • race relations • racism • Election 2008

(Newser) - Black leaders in Alaska say it's no surprise to see Sarah Palin sparking debate over race on the campaign trail, the AP reports. "She has no sensitivity to minorities," said a black Baptist minister who has urged her to hire more people of color. Another likened her supporters... More »

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Alaska • race relations • Sarah Palin • black voters

OPINION

Obama's the Only One
Playing the Race Card

McCain's scrupulous eschewing of racial issue hasn't halted accusations

Oct 17, 08 9:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has been unjustly accusing John McCain of appealing to racial prejudice, Charles Krauthammer argues in the Washington Post. McCain is taking the flak for what a few "agitated yahoos" shout at his rallies, he writes—a guilt by association that Obama seems to have escaped despite... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race relations • Election 2008 • campaign rally • the race card

OPINION

'Unconscious' Racism Holds Obama Back

Many 'deflect' biases
to more PC concerns like inexperience

Oct 5, 08 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s race could be holding him back in polls by some 6 points, a poll suggests, but it’s not necessarily because of racists, Nicholas Kristof writes in the New York Times. More likely, it’s an unconscious matter of “aversive racism”—decisions made based on... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Election 2008 • the race card • Nicholas Kristof

UPDATED

 Goldman's 
 Dad Hails 
 OJ Verdict 

Fred Goldman hopes Simpson rots in jail

Oct 5, 08 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - While much of the response to the guilty verdict against OJ Simpson has been mixed—and muted—the father of murder victim Ron Goldman is delighted, reports the New York Daily News. Fred Goldman said he was "thrilled to see that this SOB" will "hopefully go to jail... More »

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celebrity trials • Los Angeles • race relations • OJ Simpson • acquittal • guilty verdict

Debate Allows Host Ole Miss to Show Progress on Race

Great strides since deadly '60s riots, but students say university remains divided

Sep 25, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Assuming the presidential debate happens tomorrow, host University of Mississippi gets to show the nation it’s moved beyond its racially tinged past, the Los Angeles Times reports. The school, known for deadly riots when the first black student enrolled in the 1960s and controversy over Confederate flags at football... More »

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presidential debate • race relations • segregation • University of Mississippi • campus • South • Dixie

ANALYSIS

 'R' Word in Play 
 in Pa.—and It's 
 Not 'Recession'  

White voters won't always say it, but they won't vote Obama

Sep 22, 08 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden must have been shocked when he met Carolyn Bauer in a Philadelphia diner. Bauer told Biden she’d never vote for his running mate. “It’d be disgusting to get a man named Barack Obama as president,” she said. “No way!” Racism is a... More »

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Barack Obama • Pennsylvania • race relations • Philadelphia • racism • Election 2008

movie review

 Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture 

Jackson can't save formulaic flick

Sep 19, 08 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lakeview Terrace labors mightily to turn its B-movie cop/neighbor-from-hell premise into “deep social commentary about race, or real estate, or something,” writes Chris Farnsworth of E!, “but the result is an inexplicable mess.” The tensions between Samuel L. Jackson’s loose cannon cop and the... More »

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race relations • movie review • Samuel L. Jackson • Neil LaBute

 GOP Throws a Very White Party 

Diversity not strong for GOP

Sep 4, 08 10:13 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race relations • Republican Party • minorities • black voters • Republican National Convention

OPINION

 It's Not Race That's
 Holding Him Back 

Blaming white voters will only be counterproductive, says Bai

Aug 25, 08 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama goes into this week's convention in Denver with only the slimmest of leads—or, as some polls suggest, trailing John McCain. In a year when it's widely assumed that any Democratic candidate should be a shoo-in, many in the press have suggested that Obama's race is costing him... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Democratic National Convention • race relations • Democratic Party • white voters • African-Americans

Some Blacks Think Obama Could Threaten Progress

Experts fear success could close discussion

Aug 25, 08 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite being a landmark in black American history, Barack Obama’s pending nomination could stall civil rights progress, some blacks say, because his success could fuel an argument that racial divisions have been healed, the New York Times reports. The danger is “that we declare victory,” a sociologist... More »

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Barack Obama • African Americans • race relations • Voting Rights Act • Civil Rights Act • civil rights • African-Americans

Opinion

Why Minority America Will Be a Stronger Nation

American culture benefits from integration

Aug 16, 08 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Minorities may be the majority in America as soon as 2042, and Joel Kotkin writes in New Geography that he couldn’t be happier. Leftists who fear racial conflict, and right-wingers who cry "American values" are missing the point, writes Kotkin: The nation's future depends on its ability to... More »

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immigration • race relations • minority • diversity

Analysis

Obama Treads Lightly
on Issue of Race

Democrats try to avoid race war with McCain

Aug 2, 08 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Race has once again crept into the presidential race this week, and Barack Obama did his best to ignore it, the New York Times reports. John McCain’s campaign accused Obama of “playing the race card…from the bottom of the deck” when the Dem said McCain might... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race relations • black community • Obama 2008 • black • the race card

House Measure Apologizes for US Slavery

Resolution marks first official expression of regret for divisive past

Jul 29, 08 6:15 PM CDT
(AP) - The House has apologized to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws. Today's resolution marks the first time Congress has ever formally apologized for America's past history of enslaving and discriminating against blacks. More »

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Congress • race relations • slavery • Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick • Congressional Black Caucus

OPINION

Move Over Jesse, This Is Obama's House

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

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... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • African Americans • race relations • white guilt

OPINION

Obama Arrives Late for Race Debate

Cosby launched conversation in 2004, journalist argues

Jul 21, 08 7:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The black community has already started the conversation Barack Obama wants, prominent conservative Myron Magnet writes in City Journal. Liberal icons Bill Cosby and Juan Williams have declared that it’s time for African Americans to take responsibility for their own destiny. They’re telling truths that have left black... More »

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Barack Obama • African Americans • race relations • Juan Williams • Bill Cosby • victimization • police brutality • conservatives

 Racial Divide
  Persists Despite
 Obama: Poll 

Racial attitudes have barely budged despite groundbreaking run

Jul 16, 08 12:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's often hailed "post-racial" run for the White House is, in fact, unfolding in an America still sharply divided by race, a New York Times/CBS News poll has discovered. The lives of most Americans are as racially segregated as they were 8 years ago, the poll says. Black... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • poll • racial inequality • New York Times/CBS News poll • African-Americans

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