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...Time magazine article last year, for example, notes that Obama is married to a black woman, attends a black church, and works with the poor on Chicago’s South Side. The author goes on to congratulate Obama for embracing his black identity and culture. Biraciality is considered here to be an “escape valve,” a clear and distinct choice between two fixed identities...
...This is hardly the reality. While American history, stretching from slavery to the civil rights movement to today’s black activism, may have long anticipated a black president, we’re presented with Obama, who is black but also white, a character no one seemed to see coming...
...common misconception about these eye-catching sneakers is that they are only for urbanites, hipsters, rockers, rap stars, and maybe even the emo boy in black skinny jeans sulking in a corner...
...word ballot comes from the Italian word for small ball, ballotta, evoking the bygone practice of using colored shells or beads to cast votes. (The dreaded black ball indicated a "No" vote in ancient Greece). Early American ballots, on the other hand, mostly came in the form of one's voice. Men simply shouted their choice in public, a process known as vica voce. Though it alleviated concerns of illiteracy, the method encouraged intimidation and fraud. One of the most common forms of manipulation involved plying voters with free booze. Even Thomas Jefferson let his campaign dispense liquor on Election...
...more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe...