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...strong sense of style will inspire women to shop. "What she puts on sparks incredible interest," says Michael Fink, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, who said the store received hundreds of calls about her election-night outfit. When Obama appeared on The View last summer in a $148 black-and-white dress from the label White House/Black Market, the company sold out of the item the next...
...about. The roots of this development go back at least to the 1930s and Paul Robeson's singing "Ol' Man River" in Showboat. The therapeutic notion that suffering confers dignity and authority has spread just as the suffering of African Americans over generations has become universally acknowledged. Above all, black American ministers have replaced British politicians, at least in perception, as the world's most eloquent public users of the English language. Our homegrown Martin Luther King Jr. has knocked Winston Churchill off his perch as the ideal...
What's most inspiring about this development is that it can't be faked. There is no element of affirmative action here. Sidney Poitier won't do. The point is not to be black but to sound black. And unlike the integration and near domination of African Americans in professional sports, this is not even a matter of genuine talent breaking down the floodgates. Plenty of white or white-sounding actors could say "THIS [pause] is CNN" as well as Jones. Most people who have heard that phrase a hundred times don't know whose voice it is and - unless...
Starting Jan. 20, the most powerful person in the world actually will be a black man. Although President Barack Obama is one of the greatest public speakers now practicing that art, he probably couldn't get hired as the anonymous voice-over spokesman for a brand of cereal because he doesn't sound black enough. Nevertheless, he is a beneficiary of this development. When God turned into an African American, it became less unthinkable that the President might be African American as well...
...Charles Morgan Jr. had already departed, but his legacy there was larger than life. A native of Birmingham, Ala., the iconoclast, who died Jan. 8 at 78, fought the city's segregationist leaders in the early 1960s. His vigorous condemnation of the 1963 church bombing that killed four young black girls led to the loss of his law practice...