Word: whiteness
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...wouldn’t say that there are more gay white men in the BGLTSA,” Kellaway says. “I would say their voices are heard more often...
Rice, Condoleezza •Nixonian argument of that waterboarding is not torture because it was authorized by Bush and therefore, simply by virtue of its White House approval, is legal, and so, to sum up, cannot possibly be torture, which is illegal...
...breakfast crowd at Sylvia's usually comes for grits and country sausage. But on September 6, 1996, something special was on the menu of the landmark Harlem eatery: A white, middle-aged man running for vice president on the Republican ticket was stumping for votes. "This is the color of the new civil-rights revolution - green," shouted Jack Kemp, waving a dollar bill and wearing a sweat-drenched white shirt, as he stood on top of a folding chair...
...Sahara. He and Bob Dole, his presidential running mate, had no chance of breaking through in Harlem, the solidly Democratic capital of black America. GOP strategists had figured a visit there might demonstrate the kind of tolerance and inclusion necessary to nail down moderate swing votes in white suburbs. But while that was the reason everyone else gave for the unusual stop at Sylvia's soul food café, it was not the reason for Kemp, who believed wholeheartedly that Republicans could and had to win over blacks. "For Jack, it wasn't a political tactic," recalled his campaign manager...
...Those words serve as a lasting political testament of Kemp, who died Saturday and is being memorialized at the National Cathedral Friday. Thirteen years later, a black Democrat occupies the White House and Kemp's party is fighting off political isolation, popular only among a small fraction of voters who are mainly white, conservative or Christian...