All Posts Tagged With: "Race"

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Is Black Support Of Obama Turning Off White Voters? - bumped

Barack Obama May Unite Us or Divide Us
The Boyce Blog
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Barack Obama’s emergence as a powerful Presidential candidate is truly worth celebrating. Beginning as a modest participant in the election, his creative political genius gave African-Americans the courage to support a black man. Hillary Clinton’s role as the “political sugar substitute” came to [...]

29Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
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Washington Post, McCain Brought Up Race On A Pretext

WaPo writer, Peter Beinart:
“Race will be central to this campaign because McCain needs it to be.”
McCain will play the race card simply because he doesn’t have many other cards to play.
Think about it this way: Many of the voters who right now won’t vote for Obama because he’s black would probably vote for Colin Powell [...]

13Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
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Newsweek: Senator McCain Is Playing The Caucasian Card

Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen decided to throw caution to the wind and show once and for all that she’s in the tank for Barack Obama. In this piece she weaves in and out creating a tapestry of Obama that is throat gagging over the top obvious.
She begins:
It can be tough being black in America. But the [...]

11Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
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Race Based or Income Based Affirmative Action?

Is Obama about to change his rhetoric on Affirmative Action?
Jeremiah
As a state senator representing the 13 district on the South Side of Chicago, Obama endorsed traditional, race-oriented affirmative action as “absolutely necessary,” and pushed hard for programs that mandated racial and gender based hiring preferences.
Polls show Obama’s support among blacks at over 90 percent, and [...]

10Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
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Mel Martinez: Race Card Not Played, Obama Is Above That

Mel Martinez
Obama Did Not Play the Race Card
“I think we should be in a post-racial environment,” said Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., a supporter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., “I think Sen. [Barack] Obama has done an admirable job of that. I don’t think he has race-baited. I think he has been very good about [...]

3Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
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Can Obama Lose The Election By Dealing The Race Card?

Barack may never understand that his candidacy is not all about race. It has become about his arrogance, lack of depth, character and the inability to lead.
Obama didn’t begin his campaign as the Black Candidate, he was the junior Senator from Illinois. As the primary progressed and he was not doing as well as he [...]

3Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued