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...negro—we took turns going to sleep. Unfortunately, I was the only black person in my pre-calculus and calculus classes, so I had to continuously be a good black person in those situations.A more prominent example of a token is Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) recently lauded as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” I’m sure Senator Biden meant it as a compliment; however, I—along with many other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Being A Token | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...more prominent example of a token is Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) recently lauded as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” I’m sure Senator Biden meant it as a compliment; however, I—along with many other blacks—took it as an insult. Many whites are comfortable with Barack Obama because they don’t see him in the same way that they still see a majority of black people...

Author: By Lumumba Seegars | Title: Being the Token | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...pilgrims died that afternoon, but community leaders in the Shi'ite district of Khadamiya, on the western bank, lauded the "martyrdom" of al-Obeidi and the bravery of his friends. Adhamiya residents, for their part, held up al-Obeidi's sacrifice as proof that Sunnis bore no ill will toward their Shi'ite neighbors across the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

RETIRED. Chief Illiniwek, buckskin-clad mascot who for 81 years performed halftime "tribal" dances for the University of Illinois, despite protests from Native American groups who called the character demeaning; in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Officials acted under pressure from the NCAA, which in 2005 barred colleges with American Indian mascots from acting as hosts for postseason events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 5, 2007 | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Hicks told him he was praying to Satan for help. The appraisal finishes with a warning about Hicks: "Release him and see. If I know Golden Boy Hicks, I know that he has to have that last big adrenalin rush even if it takes him out." Abbasi also vents ill-feeling toward the Australian in his conclusion, where he suggests that Hicks is cooperating with the Americans. "As long as I do not dance to your tune like Golden Boy ? and tell you what you want to hear, you will always strive to condemn me. In fact you have already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Hicks Under Fire | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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