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...political aspirations. Obama’s visibility, however, has been viewed by some to have been unfairly attained. In an unforgiving editorial in The New York Sun, John McWhorter argues that the buzz surrounding Obama is less about his political acumen and charisma, but more about his being black. McWhorther opens the editorial with “imagine him white,” and proceeds to decry the dehumanization of Obama claiming that “he is being [touted] as presidential timber not despite his race, but because of it.” A refutation by Cass R. Sunstein...
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