Word: blacknessã
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...cavalcade of left-wing commentators, including Slate’s John Dickerson, The Kansas City Star’s Lewis Diuguid, and author David Shipler. These pundits claimed that nearly every criticism aimed at Obama was a Machiavellian ploy, using subtle wordplay to remind white voters of his blackness??even if this criticism did not reference race...
...Obama’s election is exciting to Harvard students not because of his blackness??it’s exciting because he’s their guy. An unprecedented number of Harvard students worked on Obama’s campaign, and more meaningful still, he is cut of the same cloth as they are. On the campaign trail, he was the candidate who got grief for arugula-eating. He’s the husband in a lawyers-in-love marriage, his family is considering adopting a rescue-dog, and he plays recreational basketball with his white-collar friends...
...people run a wide range of skin pigments, music tastes, and cultural heritages. However, they do share, according to Shelby, a common experience of suffering anti-black racism—and they share a common goal of eradicating it. Any further attempt to place qualifiers on “blackness?? will just limit the number of people pursuing this goal...
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