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...comes to race - especially mixed heritage - the line between funny and offensive can be difficult to maneuver. Following Armisen's Obama debut in February, Chicago Tribune writer Maureen Ryan wrote, "Call me crazy, but shouldn't Saturday Night Live's fictional Senator Barack Obama be played by an African American...
...electricity has plummeted dramatically in South Africa, thus reducing us to a Third World country. If this is anything to do with the ruling party's skin color, America's infrastructure should ensure that it remains a First World country, notwithstanding the fact that its President-elect is African American. Vivienne Lloyd, GERMISTON, SOUTH AFRICA
...years. I think they have done more to ruin US culture than all the illegal immigrants from Mexico in the world. And you can quote me on that. 11. FM: So how do you identify yourself nationally?JK: I’m an American and an African-American. I’m an American. That becomes more and more the default of all of us. I love America the more the worse it gets. Maybe I can love it less because it is going to get better. 12. FM: So how do you feel about Obama...
...deny us the right to adopt children, that’s getting into the territory of prejudice that is more insidious than denying gay marriage,” McCarthy said. In addition, McCarthy spoke about the precedent of discrimination in America and the need for minority groups, such as African Americans, to join forces with LGBT activists in order to push for greater equality. “The Obama movement shows that groups that see a common purpose can come together to see a new common destiny,” McCarthy said. McCarthy said that LGBT activists may feel that...
...decides against Kennedy, Paterson could name an upstate candidate with downstate appeal, like popular Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, an African-American Democrat who could win over liberal voters in New York City. (Brown garnered 6% overall in the Marist poll and 10% among upstate voters.) State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, besides polling even with Kennedy in the Marist survey, offers Paterson another benefit. The "accidental" governor - who replaced Eliot Spitzer after his resignation amid a highly publicized sex scandal - will have to run for his own office in 2010, and Cuomo could be a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary...