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...account of the strain Barack's political ambitions have placed on his family may seem revelatory, unless one has read his book, The Audacity of Hope, in which he writes about this topic extensively. Mundy offers some insight about Michelle simply by putting her life into context - describing the black experience in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, for example, and the cliqueishness of Harvard Law School. For those wanting to understand the basic life experiences that influenced Michelle Obama, Mundy's portrait is a reliable field guide...
...remember the video for Take on Me. A woman finds herself sucked into a poorly drawn black-and white-comic strip, where she quickly falls in love with an animated, mullet-wearing gent in a leather jacket. The two of them are then inexplicably chased by a team of pipe wrench-wielding motorcycle racers dressed like Muttley from Wacky Races. He protects her and soon escapes his monochrome prison. The song's buoyant synth lines rejoice. The video is so easily mockable that Family Guy, predictably, took its own crack...
Voters in the national poll were asked about that very issue, and overwhelmingly - by more than 9 to 1 - they said Obama's race won't be a factor in how they vote. Even among black voters, only 1 in 6 said they would take Obama's race into account. Still, the question hovers over the campaign. A controversial recent survey by the Associated Press pushed white participants to react to a list of negative racial stereotypes. One-third of them put credence in at least one of the unpleasant generalizations about blacks. After some complicated statistical legerdemain...
...From the chair, St. Pierre said, "My students are all talking about it, and you know they just reflect what they hear at home. Obama's winning easily." "Absolutely," Peasel answered. "I hear this crap about 'Oh, I ain't voting for a black man.' I say, 'Haven't we evolved...
Perhaps we have. And if so, when the story is told, the moral might be that white and black begin to fade when the color that matters is green - the green of money we can no longer count...