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...country ought to reflect with pride on the advances that have been made in creating opportunities for African-Americans. Today, less than 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s resounding call to action, our nation has responded with unprecedented efforts to narrow the racial divide in educational opportunities, revitalize inner-city neighborhoods, and encourage minorities to participate in government. Indeed, it is expected that on Feb. 10, Senator Barack H. Obama will formally announce his candidacy for the White House, possibly paving the way for the first African-American to receive a major political party?...
...despite our considerable progress, my recent experience volunteering along the Mississippi Gulf Coast has confirmed for me that our work on the racial front is hardly complete. In Biloxi, Gulfport, and throughout the entire Gulf Coast, the differences between racial groups in terms of outlook, opportunities, and outcomes are striking and dramatic. Throughout the month of January, I spent time volunteering in Biloxi, Mississippi, modestly helping this devastated Gulf Coast community redevelop, a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina...
While most black students at Harvard experience more racial tension than Harvard’s “Kum-bay-yah” image would suggest, even the most skeptical among us must acknowledge that the racial climate at Harvard is much improved from the times of our parents’ generation, and is a far cry from the negative realities that many less privileged black people face all over the world...
...increasingly accepting racial attitudes at Harvard and elsewhere still affect black students in several unintended ways. For many, such attitudes reduce the importance of, or need for, the black community. While I have often been approached by those outside our community in awe of our seemingly impenetrable solidarity, in reality, 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...
...President, his traction among his alleged base was underwhelming. In South Carolina, where almost half of all registered Dems were black, both John Kerry and John Edwards received twice as many black votes as Sharpton. But this hasn't stopped media outlets from phoning Sharpton whenever something even remotely racial goes down. And it hasn't stopped writers from touting Sharpton's presumed popularity among black people, as opposed to "palatable" black people like Obama...