Larry Wilmore of The Daily Show questions Barack Obama’s “blackness” while highlighting John McCain’s recent show of flavor. With tongue in cheek, Wilmore says he only wants to vote for the black candidate but is now seriously confused because of John McCain’s recent behavior. He is left with having to examine the issues. Enjoy!

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Although the talk about race in the current presidential election has been a long time coming, it is now here and in plain view. A September 2008 AP/Yahoo poll confirmed what everyone secretly thought: Race is an issue: “If there was no racial prejudice among voters, Sen. Barack Obama would receive about six percentage [...]

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Tyler Perry, the one-man writer-producer-director of Meet the Browns and Why Did I Get Married has scored another box office hit with The Family that Preys. The self-proclaimed King of Drama’s new flick with a strong cast brought in more than $18 million in the opening weekend.
Preys is an entertaining and funny film with [...]

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Brooke-Sidney Gavins comes across one of the most absurd plays of the race card ever: Bristol Palin’s Baby Daddy.

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Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.

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Our columnist Ryan Barrett dishes on dating white guys and disses CNN’s “Black in America.”

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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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Overheard: an historic walking tour of a “post-racial” French Quarter in a Bush Dynasty’s future America.

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Barry Obama’s back. And maybe it’s just plain better that way for everybody— win or lose.

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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 [...]

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This time Obama took discussion of the Wright controversy to Philadelphia and, drawing on his own multi-racial American background, his personal philosophy of politics and his training as a constitutional scholar, unraveled a stunner of a speech on the history of race relations in the United States. It was the kind of distinctly unique speech [...]

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Scott Bateman’s take on the Ferraro craziness, as fetched and posted by Salon’s Video Dog.

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With wins in Wyoming this weekend and Mississippi last night, Obama made up all the delegates Hillary gained on him in Ohio and Rhode Island on March 4th. He is also set to add more delegates when the Texas caucus results are finalized.
According to Bloomburg News: “With the win in Mississippi, Obama has now won [...]

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Obama carries none of the “bad” black-American cultural baggage. But I do, and I ain’t giving it up.

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It’s Crazy Super Tuesday and former long-time CBS anchor Dan Rather is setting up shop today at USC’s Annenberg School. He’s kicking off live coverage of the big day for his HDNET program, Dan Rather Reports. But before taking the stage tonight, he spoke to students about national politics and the news.
In addition to [...]

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