Word: racial
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...incident earlier this month has raised concerns about Harvard University Police Department's treatment of racial minorities on campus, leading University President Drew G. Faust to announce the creation of a six-member committee to review HUPD's practices...
...been the leader of the Democratic Party for the last 16 years, and it's obviously tough for him to surrender the crown to Obama, especially when his determined efforts to hand it to his wife got him ridiculed for ham-handed politics and even accused of racial insensitivity. And if Obama loses, of course, then Clinton keeps the crown for another four years...
Obama tells a parallel story in his memoir, the journey of a man raised by his Caucasian mother and grandparents who seeks his identity as an African American. Along the path, he was drawn to a number of older black men who argued that America's racial divide is absolute and unbridgeable. Obama recalls a visit as a teenager to the home of a black man his white grandfather considered a friend. To his surprise, the man explained that it was hopeless to think any white man could truly befriend someone black. "He can't know me," the man said...
That is resolutely not the message communicated in Obama's campaign, however. "I reject a politics that is based solely on racial identity, gender identity, sexual orientation or victimhood generally," he has declared. He enjoys nearly unanimous support from African Americans in polls; nevertheless, just as Broyard sought to avoid being labeled a "Negro writer," Obama resists efforts to define him as a "black candidate." And for some of the same reasons too. As soon as the race label is added, some of the audience tunes out, others are turned off and still others leap to conclusions about...
...cosmopolitan America and Christian America will never see eye to eye? Just look at me! It's not unusual to meet Obama supporters who say the simple fact of electing him would move mountains, changing the way the world looks at America, turning the page on the nation's racial history and so on. He is the change they seek...