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...presence in Iraq, he is even more painfully aware of the chance that his own presence there could do more damage than good. Is it imperialist, he asks, to be trying to spread the English language and American history during an American military campaign? Firmly committed to presenting an unbiased history of the U.S., he emphasizes the African-American experience of slavery and the struggle for civil rights. Yet Klaus also finds himself often defending the contemporary United States—and himself—against his students’ perceptions...
...indisputable that this was a serious speech about the incendiary topic of race in America. Obama was performing his high-wire act, trying to appear black enough for the African-American community and post-racial enough for white voters. That's as tough a task as exists in American politics, and one speech alone will never accomplish it. But if he is to win the nomination and the general election, he has to engage voters in this dialogue, and the sooner the better. He's started down that road, and he has to continue. Whether he likes...
...enough. It's greatest moments were those conveying self-identity, conveying that he is a new era kind of American who will not subscribe to the old divisions. But, nothing in American politics is more divisive or more volatile than race: not political parties, not ideology, not abortion, not gun rights, not war and peace. Neither the candidate nor the Democratic party can be pleased to see today's Quinnipiac Pennsylvania poll showing sharpening African-American support for Obama and sharpening white support for Senator Clinton...
...they were produced. Minnesota and North Dakota both feature caricatured Native Americans riding away into the sunset. Florida’s depicts a native Seminole woman ironically juxtaposed alongside the Christian maxim “In God We Trust.” Not a single state seal features an African-American...
...crowd quickly hushed. It was Chiazotam N. Ekekezie ’08 with the Sisters of Kuumba, starting off the night for “Sing It, Sister! A Celebration of Black Women in Music.” The show’s repertoire ranged from old African-American spirituals to modern songs such as Erykah Badu’s “Tyrone...