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Is Obama's media blitz brilliant or will it backfire?
10:47 AM on 07/29/2010
OPINION - The age of the Internet requires a new style of connected interaction and leadership that makes our president touchable for those whom he claims to represent...
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Why Obama will never be 'black enough' for some white journalists
8:05 AM on 07/27/2010
OPINION - Everyone seems to feel justified in defining what it means for a black politician to have a 'genuine black experience'...
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Do blacks feel betrayed by Obama's silence on race?
8:22 AM on 07/23/2010
OPINION - President Obama has been as silent as a church mouse on some of the most riveting and racially-traumatic events to occur in recent U.S. history...
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USDA official's remarks put NAACP on defense in race debate
11:26 AM on 07/20/2010
OPINION - Shirley Sherrod, the NAACP and the Tea Party are all reflections of the most extreme parts of all of us...
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Gates 'teachable moment' one year later: What have we learned?
12:21 PM on 07/16/2010
OPINION - The conversation on race should begin in the streets of America, where working class people of color sometimes find themselves trapped in a police state...
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What's wrong with Whoopi Goldberg?
3:41 PM on 07/13/2010
OPINION - What exactly would Mel Gibson have needed to say or do in order for Goldberg to have a problem with it?...
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Does NBA management suffer from a 'slave master mentality'?
9:20 AM on 07/12/2010
OPINION - Rev. Jesse Jackson is right when he says that LeBron James is seen as a piece of property by guys like Dan Gilbert...
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Earth to Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama is no Black Panther
9:23 AM on 07/08/2010
OPINION - Limbaugh recently claimed that President Obama has deliberately allowed unemployment to grow in the United States as 'payback' for slavery and oppression...
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How the unemployed have become a scapegoat for Congress
2:57 PM on 07/01/2010
OPINION - This will be the first time in U.S. history that unemployment benefits are allowed to expire when the unemployment rate was over 7.2 percent...
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Why there should be a black backlash against BET
10:43 AM on 06/28/2010
OPINION - Through the years, the BET Awards have become a staple of unhealthy and counter-productive broken black family fun...
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Five ways Alvin Greene can save his Senate campaign
8:19 AM on 06/22/2010
OPINION - Personally, I'd rather see Strom Thurmond run from the grave than to see the impressively incompetent Alvin Greene get elected for anything...
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GOP rep who says 'Obama favors blacks' is stuck in the past
9:02 AM on 06/16/2010
OPINION - Unfortunately for him, Steve King is part of a dying breed that struggles to regain the racial imbalances of yesteryear...
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World Cup may be Mandela's last great goal for South Africa
8:03 AM on 06/10/2010
OPINION - To say that this event has significance to Mandela would be a tremendous understatement...
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Rand Paul puts foot in mouth again with MLK comparison
2:56 PM on 06/07/2010
OPINION - I am not sure why Rand Paul keeps working to convince black people that he loves us...
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Arizona isn't the only state with a racist agenda
9:18 AM on 06/07/2010
OPINION - The collective outrage expressed over the civil liberties issues in the Arizona immigration law has been hardly present during other more serious racial atrocities...
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Bill Maher's joke on Obama's blackness reveals serious ignorance
1:00 PM on 06/01/2010
OPINION - Apparently Bill Maher, the ultra-liberal talk show host who both entertains and annoys me, doesn't understand what it means to be a black man...
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Glenn Beck hits new low with Malia Obama attack
5:33 PM on 05/28/2010
OPINION - It is one thing to criticize someone's policies, and it's another to attack the intelligence of your enemy's children...
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Four ways Obama can stop oil spill from consuming his presidency
9:19 AM on 05/28/2010
OPINION - The goal of the Obama administration should not be to emerge from this situation looking good, that's simply not possible....
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Oil spill leaves both political parties in the muck
8:48 AM on 05/24/2010
OPINION - BP can destroy our shores, kill the wildlife, cost people their livelihoods and destroy the regional eco-system, and even President Obama is relatively powerless to stop it...
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Would Rand Paul roll back the Civil Rights Act?
2:00 PM on 05/20/2010
OPINION - The firestorm started when Paul said that it should be ok for restaurant owners to discriminate if they choose to...
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