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...year-old Clinton. And of course, race is a factor too, though it is one that is impossible to measure. Governor Ed Rendell, Clinton's highest-profile supporter in Pennsylvania, suggested in February that some whites in his state "are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate...
...Zachary M. Seward ’07-’09, a Crimson news editor, is an African-American studies concentrator in Lowell House...
Still, these trends are troubling. At the end of the twentieth century, only ten percent of two-parent African-American households lived below the poverty rate, but an absolute majority of single-parent African-American households did. Married couples share certain qualities that make them more likely to succeed. Indeed, the breakdown of the family is one reason for the recent lag in economic progress among African Americans. And the fewer African Americans who are working, the less likely that greater numbers of them will rise out of poverty...
...racism makes for a much scarier bogeyman. In his recent speech on race in in Philadelphia, Obama warned, “…many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow...
...channeling his mother. "When I was writing that speech," he told nbc News, "her memory loomed over me. Is this something that she would trust?" When it came to race, Obama told me, "I don't think she was entirely comfortable with the more aggressive or militant approaches to African-American politics." (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...