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Could an Obama Win Backfire on Blacks?
Abigail Thernstrom, the conservative commentator on race in the U.S., once called me a member of the “doom and gloom” contingent among black political scholars. So, that probably makes me overqualified to make this assertion, but here goes. An Obama presidency could seriously backfire on African Americans. It is true that should Barack Obama become…
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He’s Black and We’re Proud
It is supremely ironic that Barack Obama, the candidate who seeks to bury race as an issue in this campaign season, owes his overwhelming support among blacks to the continued power of black nationalism. For a century and a half, black nationalism has provided the main ideological challenge to the liberal, social democratic sensibilities that…
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Stand Strong, Tavis
One of the really unfortunate aspects of the current battle for the Democratic presidential nomination is the apologetic position many blacks are taking regarding Barack Obama’s candidacy. It goes something like this: “We shouldn’t press him too much to talk about black issues because that might mess it up for the brother.” This color-before-accountability group-think…
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Reagan Couldn't Win Either
Can Obama be elected? Can he actually win? Is Bill Clinton right about the Obama fairy tale? I am sick and tired of these questions. Yes he can! Yes we can! Remember, a village in Texas has been missing its idiot for nearly 8 years now. If we can elect Bush president of the United…
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Hopeless Boomers? We Invented Hope
In a recent article on Sen. Ted Kennedy’s powerful endorsement of Barack Obama, New York Times columnist David Brooks suggests that Baby Boomers who developed their political identities in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who have hardened over decades of political conflict, are intrinsically devoid of hope. Instead, the Camelot mystique of the…