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...Kennedy—who is teaching a course at the Law School this semester about the election—wrote of his emotional engagement with this election. Kennedy relayed how Obama’s progressive politics have expanded the public consciousness to accept the possibility of a black president. And he wrote about how dejected he’d feel if the senator loses...
...proven already, and beyond the shadow of doubt, that America is, in fact, ready for a black president—which, in actuality, is a veiled way of saying that white America is prepared to confront the myth of white supremacy,” he wrote in the letter...
...Jason C. B. Lee ’08 said Obama’s win in the Iowa primary was the point when people in the Black Students Association started to be more optimistic...
...Still, the implications of Obama’s candidacy for black Americans in politics cannot be ignored...
...Malcolm R. Rivers ’09, who last year chaired Harvard’s BSA’s Political Action Committee, said though many black students have impressed by what Obama has accomplished so far, he did not think they are satisfied with just a contender...