The Race Card
by Alexander Cockburn
Political race baiting works in America because racism is part of the cultural and historical furniture. In 1960, when Barack Obama's Kenyan father married Stanley Ann Dunham, a white woman who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, 22 states still had laws forbidding interracial marriages. In 1967, an appropriate year since it was the "summer of love," the Supreme Court voided all "race hygiene" laws, still on the books in 16 states.
In 1988, Al Gore, running in the New ...
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Posted by: Karen
Comment: #1
Sat Mar 1, 2008 11:14 AM
Wow. Touchy subject - nary a comment to be seen. So far the Democrats have raised the issue of race. What I want to know, if Obama is the Democratic candidate, will every point raised about his voting record, position on Iraq, handling of social programs and tax costs, and experience to lead, be slanted by the press as an attack on a black man?
Or, will the press finally be able to treat him like any other candidate and ask the tough questions? He is an American running for the position of leader of the free world......Nothing more, nothing less.
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