Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...details of the group will become official “in the next week or two,” Lubin says. Although students can’t do much until Obama officially declares his intention to run, the Facebook group already has 73 members as of February 2nd.A serious, mainstream ticket headlined by a minority would be ground breaking for obvious reasons, and Obama’s charisma might mobilize an unusually large population of Harvard students. “He does have a reputation that’s going to bring a lot of people together...
...that monolith—diverse as it is—only represents a fraction of black students at Harvard. No longer denied social and extracurricular opportunities within the greater Harvard community, many black students feel little need to associate with other blacks. This dynamic creates a schism within the mainstream, meeting-going, event-attending black community, which debates how hard it should work to include such individuals...
...solidarity and dream instead of the impact we could have if we united around one plan to improve our community. Still others reject this brand of political activism entirely and contend that the black community should refrain from any political stance, lest we alienate those who differ from the mainstream...
...this is a double-edged sword. As much as his biracial identity has helped Obama build a sizable following in middle America, it's also opened a gap for others to question his authenticity as a black man. In calling Obama the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," the implication was that the black people who are regularly seen by whites - or at least those who aspire to the highest office in the land - are none of these things. But give Biden credit - at least he acknowledged Obama's identity...
...black-on-black argument seemed to be bolstered by recent polls showing Obama significantly trailing Hillary Clinton among black voters. But reading into poll numbers that way is a clever device, hatched by mainstream (primarily white) journalists who are shocked - shocked! - to discover that black people aren't as dumbstruck by Obama as they...