Word: racial
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...Harvard Black Students Association, wrote in an e-mail that Obama “is a leader who is black, but he is not a Black Leader.” For Lee and many Americans, the distinction between the two rests upon whether that person defines themselves by their racial identity. A familiar historical parallel would be John F. Kennedy ’40, who was not considered a Catholic politician, but rather a politician who happened to be Catholic...
...locked in a tight race with former Senator John Edwards. And while both are looking to break a historic barrier--his of race, hers of gender--Obama's is proving to be the more delicate challenge, as shown by questions over his response to the Jena 6 racial controversy in Louisiana...
...making the rules for them…When the distrust is that large and pervasive, it is going to seep into some places it doesn’t belong—like, for example, this Vick case.” Wright Thompson of ESPN.com wrote a piece detailing the racial history in Atlanta, and how African Americans are supporting Vick because of their past experiences, “because they see inequality, because it’s what they’re trained...
Last Thursday, 10,000 civil rights activists from across the country rallied in Jena, La. to protest and commemorate events that occurred in and around the local high school. A series of racially-motivated altercations culminated in a cafeteria brawl in December 2006. The victim, a white student who allegedly taunted the black students with racial slurs, was hospitalized but released a few hours later and attended a party that evening. The defendants, six black minors, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder...
...case of the Jena Six is full of hearsay and contradictory testimonies, but one thing remains clear: Justice in its truest sense has not been served. All details aside, the charges are indisputably harsh and the prosecution was, at best, tinged with racial bias, and, at worst, pursuing a vindictive agenda against black youths who dared step out of their place...