Reparations for Slavery: Two Beers, a Conversation, and That's ItThe New York Times article "Ending the Slavery Blame Game" started:
Thanks to an unlikely confluence of history and genetics — the fact that he is African-American and president — Barack Obama has a unique opportunity to reshape the debate over one of... |
Apr 27, 10 |
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Black and White, Starkly American blacks and whites live in two disjointed worlds. They always have, but in different ways over time.
Fifty years ago, blacks lived in a physically different world - the "other side of the tracks," the designated black neighborhood, separate ... |
Aug 6, 09 |
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Teaching Moments with the President, the Policeman, and the Prof By now, just about everybody in the United States knows that President Obama called the entire Cambridge police force "stupid" because its Sergeant Crowley arrested his good friend Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct.
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Jul 28, 09 |
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The President and the Policeman As surely as the sun rises in the east, comes another charge of racism against the police by those who seem to have no fear of criminals. We all know the cycle: an arrest; a controversy; fiery accusations of racism; the talk-show rounds by the usual ra... |
Jul 24, 09 |
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