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...feels like to be called nigger. Obama’s victory cannot mean the same thing for all Americans. But if there is anything his victory has taught us, it is that we are not such a divided people as we have been told we are for the past eight years. This makes Obama’s victory as a black man special, not just for black Americans, but for all Americans who value equality and hold fast to the idea that we are a better nation than the past has shown...
...many Americans, Obama’s election means a departure from the death and destruction and ignorance of the past eight years. For black Americans, it means a departure from the death and destruction and ignorance of the past several hundred years. We are not as culturally and economically unified a group as non-blacks would like to believe: Some of us are rich and others are poor, some of us are of mixed race, some of us come from other countries, some of us live in the rural South while others live in the urban North. The thing that...
...everyone laughed incredulously at the slow but steady stream of “Bushisms.” Little did we know that gems like “I know how hard it is to put food on your family” were only the beginning of an eight-year laugh riot! But after eight years of State of the Union addresses where nuclear was pronounced as an arbitrary sequence of three syllables, we have become accustomed to seeing the presidential office as part-king, part-jester. The idea of the United States President as a somewhat lovable buffoon remains firmly...
...good October,” said MacDonald. “Sometimes you hear these economic forecasts, and it just doesn’t matter. The things we sell, these ‘affordable extravagances,’ people will still have their occasional five-dollar ice cream cone or eight-dollar cigar.” But he also acknowledged that his store increasingly depends on the University for customers, and that increased economic stress and rising unemployment could deter some customers who live farther away from the Square.“In the old days, people would come into...
...four men, three are still behind bars, having exhausted all other legal means to appeal their case. A judge overturned the conviction of one of the sailors, Derek Tice, on Nov. 27, 2006. But that ruling was later reversed by a higher court. Eric Wilson served all eight and a half years of his sentence for rape and was released in 2005 but is still seeking clemency to vacate his conviction...