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...Obama loses, I personally will feel disappointed, frustrated, hurt. I’ll conclude that a fabulous opportunity has been lost. I’ll believe that American voters have made a huge mistake,” Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy wrote in a letter printed in The Washington Post on Sept. 14. “And I’ll think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice—not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that...
...letter entitled “The Big ‘What If,’” Kennedy—who is teaching a course at the Law School this semester about the election—wrote of his emotional engagement with this election. Kennedy relayed how Obama’s progressive politics have expanded the public consciousness to accept the possibility of a black president. And he wrote about how dejected he’d feel if the senator loses...
...letter sent to friends and colleagues, Cameron Van Patterson—a Harvard graduate student in African and African American Studies and History of Art and Architecture—discussed what Obama’s rise to the candidacy has already shown and will show about the national conscience...
...That letter directed Tenenbaum to call a hotline run by the Recording Industry Association of America, asking the teenager to pay for his seven illegal downloads. Tenenbaum refused to pay. After his refusal, the RIAA brought a suit...
Most American voters appear to support Barack Obama for the presidency. The fact that the presumed winner is a young man with little national governing experience, a middle name shared with a notorious villain, and a last name only one letter away from that of the United States’ public enemy number one is extraordinary. Add to that, of course, that his mother is white and his father African, so our presumed next president will be nonwhite, or even “black...