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...result of Barack Obama's groundbreaking candidacy, American attitudes about skin color have been put under a microscope this year. Michigan State University Social Work Professor Ronald Hall had a jump-start on that debate; he has been studying the social consequences of skin color for more than 20 years. He is the editor of a new scholarly book, Racism in the 21st Century: An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color (Springer). TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with Hall about race and its impact on the current campaign...
...Ronald Hall: Before I got into academia, I worked in a mental health clinic. Ninety percent of the patients were African-American, because it was in Detroit. Sometimes we would get at their underlying problems. It seemed it would always have something to do with skin color, but they never would want to talk about that. That spurred me to start doing a lot of reading. And the reading informed me about something I already knew about, sort of at a subconscious level. It's an experience with skin color that most African-Americans are aware...
...McCain?s statement that he follows ?the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan? demonstrates that he is either uninformed about history or is counting on the ignorance of others. Although it is true that all three former Presidents were Republicans, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt were social liberals whose political ideology had far more in common with today?s Democrats. If McCain feels compelled to call on the ghosts of former presidents to bolster his conservative credentials, he can keep Reagan on the list but if he values historical accuracy, he ought to replace Lincoln...
...really know Palin as a politician yet, whether she is wise or foolhardy, substantive or empty. Our fascination with her - and it is a nonpartisan phenomenon - is driven by something more primal. The Palin surge illuminates the mythic power of the Republican Party's message since the advent of Ronald Reagan...
...elastic that everyone from the gun owners to the PTA moms to the Pentecostals to the first timers felt warm in the embrace. "Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" the delegates roared, and the hall that felt like a tomb on Monday might as well have seen the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan, so ecstatic was the crowd...