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...that Freeman and Jones sound black - they sound American. The current VOGs are a celebration not of America embracing the black man but of America shedding its racial pretense (which is more than I can say for Kinsley's essay). Mark Still, Philadelphia
...that Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones sound black - they sound American. The current voices of God are a celebration not of America embracing the black man but of America shedding its racial pretense (which is more than I can say for Kinsley's essay). Mark Still, PHILADELPHIA...
...Last year, after months of public hearings, a Maryland state commission on the death penalty voted 13-9 to recommend that it should be abolished. In its final report the commission, which was headed by former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, cited the usual objections to capital punishment - cost, racial and jurisdictional disparities in sentencing, its ineffectiveness as a deterrent against crime and the possibility that innocent people might be put to death. One of the commission's members was Kirk Bloodsworth, who had been on death row in Maryland for two years in the mid-1980s before...
After nearly four hours and six rounds of voting, the Republican National Committee elected former Lt. Governor Michael Steele as its first-ever African American chairman. Evidently, Steele's rivals had failed to convince the 168-member committee that they could adapt to a post-racial, web-driven political era. Take Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee's ex-presidential campaign manager and an early candidate for the RNC seat who dropped out of the race after word spread that he had distributed a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" a few weeks after Obama's victory. The incumbent, Mike Duncan...
...that Freeman and Jones sound black--they sound American. The current VOGs are a celebration not of America embracing the black man but of America shedding its racial pretense (which is more than I can say for Kinsley's essay). Celebrate the individual voice, Mike. That is what we as Americans do best. Mark Still, PHILADELPHIA...