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...race—as though the only important thing he ever did was to be black. A weariness that borders on cynicism has settled around the topic of Obama as a black man, especially among those who love Obama for reasons that have nothing to do with his race. Much to the annoyance of non-black Obama supporters, African-Americans seem to have adopted Obama as their exclusive champion...
...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 has really united us is a sense of being shut out from certain opportunities. No matter where we lived or how we behaved, we were...
...results on Nov. 4 were negative for advocates of gay marriage outside California as well: citizens in Florida and Arizona also voted to make gay marriage unconstitutional. The vote was overwhelming in Florida, where voters favored Barack Obama in the presidential race but still decided 63% to 37% to make marriage available to heterosexual couples only. And in John McCain's home state of Arizona, voters reversed course just two years after defeating a similar, if more sweeping, ban on gay marriage...
...were viewed by the Iranians as Americans, not black Americans, so I had no awareness of race until we returned to the United States." - Recalling her first encounters with racism in the U.S. (Chicago Tribune, July...
These setbacks have not helped Gaydamak's chances of being elected mayor of the Holy City. He is an outsider, joining an election fray that has polarized the city's black-hatted community of ultra-Orthodox haredim from the rest of its secular inhabitants. The outcome of this race will have repercussions for the Obama Administration's Israel-Palestinian peace plans, since the dilemma of Jerusalem - whether it will be shared with the Palestinians or remain the undivided Jewish capital - lies at the heart of any future accord. Gaydamak's rivals for the mayoralty are an ultra-Orthodox...