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OPINION

Nov 4, 2008 12:02 PM CST

An Obama Win Would Belong to LBJ

Run is confirmation of slow change since Civil Rights Act

(Newser) - Unless the polls are wrong, the winner of today’s election is clear: Lyndon Baines Johnson. “We have lost the South for a generation,” Johnson said when he signed the Civil Rights Act. Well, “for that generation, time’s up,” Richard Cohen writes in the Washington ...

What Obama Means for My Son

OPINION

Nov 1, 2008 11:45 AM CDT

What Obama Means for My Son

One father's journey through a racially-charged election

(Newser) - Barack Obama looks poised to win the presidency, and that would mean a lot for Gary Younge’s infant son. Younge wasn’t always sure it would, the Brooklyn resident writes in the Guardian. "It wasn't that I didn't understand the symbolic importance of his bid. I just did...

Race? Only Thing Obama
Transcends Is Logic

OPINION

Oct 24, 2008 8:05 PM CDT

Race? Only Thing Obama Transcends Is Logic

Instead of putting conflict behind us, Dem's crowd perceives insult just about everywhere

(Newser) - Barack Obama is allegedly helping America “transcend race,” Jonah Goldberg writes in the National Review, but if moving beyond race “would involve making race less of an issue,” why are Obama’s fervent supporters obsessed with bringing it up? One columnist sees racism in descriptions of...

Alaskan Blacks
Call Palin
Insensitive

Oct 18, 2008 8:03 PM CDT

Alaskan Blacks Call Palin Insensitive

(Newser) - Black leaders in Alaska say it's no surprise to see Sarah Palin sparking debate over race on the campaign trail, the AP reports. "She has no sensitivity to minorities," said a black Baptist minister who has urged her to hire more people of color. Another likened her supporters...

Obama's the Only One
Playing the Race Card

OPINION

Oct 17, 2008 9:47 AM CDT

Obama's the Only One Playing the Race Card

McCain's scrupulous eschewing of racial issue hasn't halted accusations

(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has been unjustly accusing John McCain of appealing to racial prejudice, Charles Krauthammer argues in the Washington Post. McCain is taking the flak for what a few "agitated yahoos" shout at his rallies, he writes—a guilt by association that Obama seems to have escaped despite...

'Unconscious' Racism Holds Obama Back

OPINION

Oct 5, 2008 10:07 AM CDT

'Unconscious' Racism Holds Obama Back

Many 'deflect' biases to more PC concerns like inexperience

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s race could be holding him back in polls by some 6 points, a poll suggests, but it’s not necessarily because of racists, Nicholas Kristof writes in the New York Times. More likely, it’s an unconscious matter of “aversive racism”—decisions made based on...

Goldman's
Dad Hails
OJ Verdict

UPDATED

Oct 5, 2008 5:29 AM CDT

Goldman's Dad Hails OJ Verdict

Fred Goldman hopes Simpson rots in jail

(Newser) - While much of the response to the guilty verdict against OJ Simpson has been mixed—and muted—the father of murder victim Ron Goldman is delighted, reports the New York Daily News. Fred Goldman said he was "thrilled to see that this SOB" will "hopefully go to jail...

Debate Allows Host Ole Miss to Show Progress on Race

Sep 25, 2008 10:48 AM CDT

Debate Allows Host Ole Miss to Show Progress on Race

Great strides since deadly '60s riots, but students say university remains divided

(Newser) - Assuming the presidential debate happens tomorrow, host University of Mississippi gets to show the nation it’s moved beyond its racially tinged past, the Los Angeles Times reports. The school, known for deadly riots when the first black student enrolled in the 1960s and controversy over Confederate flags at football...

'R' Word in Play
in Pa.—and It's
Not 'Recession'

ANALYSIS

Sep 22, 2008 1:15 PM CDT

'R' Word in Play in Pa.—and It's Not 'Recession'

White voters won't always say it, but they won't vote Obama

(Newser) - Joe Biden must have been shocked when he met Carolyn Bauer in a Philadelphia diner. Bauer told Biden she’d never vote for his running mate. “It’d be disgusting to get a man named Barack Obama as president,” she said. “No way!” Racism is a...

Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture

movie review

Sep 19, 2008 11:50 AM CDT

Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture

Jackson can't save formulaic flick

(Newser) - Lakeview Terrace labors mightily to turn its B-movie cop/neighbor-from-hell premise into “deep social commentary about race, or real estate, or something,” writes Chris Farnsworth of E!, “but the result is an inexplicable mess.” The tensions between Samuel L. Jackson’s loose cannon cop and the interracial...

GOP Throws a Very White Party

Sep 4, 2008 10:13 AM CDT

GOP Throws a Very White Party

Diversity not strong for GOP

(Newser) - Scan the faces in the Xcel Energy Center, and you’ll see a sea of white. This year’s Republican National Convention is the whitest on record, the Washington Post reports, with just 36 black delegates —out of 2,380. “It’s hard to look around and not...

It's Not Race That's
Holding Him Back

OPINION

Aug 25, 2008 12:12 PM CDT

It's Not Race That's Holding Him Back

Blaming white voters will only be counterproductive, says Bai

(Newser) - Barack Obama goes into this week's convention in Denver with only the slimmest of leads—or, as some polls suggest, trailing John McCain. In a year when it's widely assumed that any Democratic candidate should be a shoo-in, many in the press have suggested that Obama's race is costing him...

Some Blacks Think Obama Could Threaten Progress

Aug 25, 2008 8:43 AM CDT

Some Blacks Think Obama Could Threaten Progress

Experts fear success could close discussion

(Newser) - Despite being a landmark in black American history, Barack Obama’s pending nomination could stall civil rights progress, some blacks say, because his success could fuel an argument that racial divisions have been healed, the New York Times reports. The danger is “that we declare victory,” a sociologist...

Why Minority America Will Be a Stronger Nation

Opinion

Aug 16, 2008 9:56 AM CDT

Why Minority America Will Be a Stronger Nation

American culture benefits from integration

(Newser) - Minorities may be the majority in America as soon as 2042, and Joel Kotkin writes in New Geography that he couldn’t be happier. Leftists who fear racial conflict, and right-wingers who cry "American values" are missing the point, writes Kotkin: The nation's future depends on its ability to...

Obama Treads Lightly
on Issue of Race

Analysis

Aug 2, 2008 2:13 PM CDT

Obama Treads Lightly on Issue of Race

Democrats try to avoid race war with McCain

(Newser) - Race has once again crept into the presidential race this week, and Barack Obama did his best to ignore it, the New York Times reports. John McCain’s campaign accused Obama of “playing the race card…from the bottom of the deck” when the Dem said McCain might attack...

House Measure Apologizes for US Slavery

Jul 29, 2008 6:15 PM CDT

House Measure Apologizes for US Slavery

Resolution marks first official expression of regret for divisive past

(Newser) - The House has apologized to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws. Today's resolution marks the first time Congress has ever formally apologized for America's past history of enslaving and discriminating against blacks.

Move Over Jesse, This Is Obama's House

OPINION

Jul 22, 2008 1:01 PM CDT

Move Over Jesse, This Is Obama's House

The rev hates Barack because he represents the 'anti-Jackson'

(Newser) - If threats of castration are any indication, Barack Obama has gotten under Jesse Jackson's skin, writes Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal. The Illinois senator has eclipsed the reverend by effectively becoming the anti-Jackson—rather than playing off moral leverage created out of white guilt, Obama "became the...

Obama Arrives Late for Race Debate

OPINION

Jul 21, 2008 7:21 PM CDT

Obama Arrives Late for Race Debate

Cosby launched conversation in 2004, journalist argues

(Newser) - The black community has already started the conversation Barack Obama wants, prominent conservative Myron Magnet writes in City Journal. Liberal icons Bill Cosby and Juan Williams have declared that it’s time for African Americans to take responsibility for their own destiny. They’re telling truths that have left black...

Racial Divide
Persists Despite
Obama: Poll

Jul 16, 2008 12:57 AM CDT

Racial Divide Persists Despite Obama: Poll

Racial attitudes have barely budged despite groundbreaking run

(Newser) - Barack Obama's often hailed "post-racial" run for the White House is, in fact, unfolding in an America still sharply divided by race, a New York Times/CBS News poll has discovered. The lives of most Americans are as racially segregated as they were 8 years ago, the poll says. Black...

What Jackson Problem?
Waning Clout Signals Shift

Jul 11, 2008 7:48 AM CDT

What Jackson Problem? Waning Clout Signals Shift

Obama, younger generation seem little concerned with fallout

(Newser) - Once, Democrats worried about “the Jesse Jackson problem,” the fear that rebuke from Jackson would cost them black voters. But now, some Democrats are saying that Jackson’s latest criticisms of Barack Obama may actually help the Illinois senator, the New York Times reports, both with white voters...