It has become obvious that Richard Cohen will not be satisfied until Barack Obama joins the Klan. Until then, the fact that some (and perhaps more than “some”) whites won’t vote for him due to his skin color will remain Obama’s own fault. Per Cohen’s column in the Washington Post, it is Obama’s [...]
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4 Comments Wake me from King’s dream
(and spare me the 60s-bred alternatives)
By Leonce Gaiter, April 4, 2008 3:55 pm in the daily feed I’ve grown tired of the self-serving and sanctimonious invocations of “King’s Dream.” Since his death, its reference has been mired in cheap sentiment and easy virtue, recognizable to the daytime TV chat show set accustomed to camera-induced catharsis and the promises of fulfillment just awaiting those who “buy this book” and follow “these easy steps.”
King’s [...]
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Overheard: an historic walking tour of a “post-racial” French Quarter in a Bush Dynasty’s future America.
Barry Obama’s back. And maybe it’s just plain better that way for everybody— win or lose.
Yes you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
And talk real fine just like a lady
And you’d stop calling me Sister Sadie
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You’re all gonna die and die like flies…
I don’t trust you any more…
Alabama’s gotten me so upset
Tennessee made [...]
Obama carries none of the “bad” black-American cultural baggage. But I do, and I ain’t giving it up.
We black folk are on the mainstreamed web, at last, because we likewise have been completely mainstreamed.
What would a “post-racial” reality even look like? Maybe something like British television.
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