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...explain the mania surrounding Obama's political career, Joe Klein quoted Shelby Steele, who said that "it's all about gratitude" and that white Americans are enthusiastic about the Senator because he allows them to forget about "racial guilt." As an Asian American who strongly supports Obama, where do I fall? Once again, a conversation on race has been reduced to white and black. I am energized by the Senator because he is smart, thoughtful and pragmatic. He represents me, a Democrat with strong Christian values. He knows the struggle of trying to attain the American Dream and the difficulties...
DIED. P.W. Botha, 90, apartheid- era South African President whose rigid defense of racial separation overshadowed his secret 1989 talks with jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela; in Wilderness, South Africa. Known as the "Old Crocodile" for his fearsome temper, Botha made some reforms, giving Asians and mixed-race citizens--but not blacks--a limited voice in government. But he also oversaw the detention of tens of thousands of antiapartheid activists. Despite global pressure, he would not free Mandela, who was finally released in 1990, a year after F.W. de Klerk replaced Botha. And he refused to appear before the postapartheid...
...Fight Over Affirmative Action in Michigan The man behind the California racial preference ban is back at it again, this time in Michigan, where his ballot initiative could prevail over a strong, organized opposition
...Fight Over Affirmative Action in Michigan The man behind the California racial preference ban is back at it again, this time in Michigan, where his ballot initiative could prevail over a strong, organized opposition
...Instead, it's been about Allen's use of the derogatory term "macaca" to describe a South Asian Webb supporter who attended an Allen campaign event; his alleged use of racial slurs in the 1970s; the Jewish roots of his mother; and "a horny woman's dream," the term Webb used to describe the dorms at the U.S Naval Academy in a 1979 article arguing against allowing women into combat. And lately it has degenerated further, if that's possible, into nasty charges about passionate prose and alleged arrests. Last week Republicans started attacking the war novels Webb has written...