America’s label game misses diversity of race: The term “African-American” does less to define blacks than divide communities. But some hope one man of mixed heritage can ease the tensions. […]
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Barack Obama
The new face of the Democratic Party — and America Barack Obama has come to graceful terms with his mixed-race heritage. Now, as he runs for the U.S. Senate in […]
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Nader angers Congressional Black Caucus with demand for apology
Nader angers CBC with demand for apology The Hill By Hans Nichols and Peter Savodnik Tensions between Ralph Nader and the Congressional Black Caucus flared again yesterday, after a letter […]
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Congressional “Black” Caucus – Can’t they behave better?
From Nader/Camejo 2004: In a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus: Nader asks for an apology for “obscene racist epithet” made at CBC meeting. Nader Further Asks: “can you imagine […]
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Claiming J. Edgar Hoover as Black
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970182228/qid=1087244429/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0624330-6755269?v=glance&s=books http://www.inlandempireservices.com/globe.htm http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/ews_hoover_2730.html http://www.inlandempireservices.com/globe.htm
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Claiming Bob Barr for Blacks
Miscellaneous Links and Comments: http://members.m4d.com/forum/read/brianrowland/353377/# http://www.blackwebportal.com/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=6&Topic=2025 The statement was clearly racist in nature and a not-so-veiled reference, through a warped attempt at humor, to Barr’s long rumored African-American heritage. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/082202_withercongress.html […]
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Clinton as “black”
http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V10/43/kennedy-r.html
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Eisenhower as “black”
Search H-Afro-Am under “Eisenhower” and see blacks trying to claim the late U.S. President. http://www.h-net.org/logsearch/
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Obama routs Democratic foes; Ryan tops crowded GOP field
Obama attracted white voters with his multiracial background and cosmopolitan upbringing. He attracted black voters by denying his true heritage and pretending to be one of them. Obama routs Democratic […]
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Blacks eye that John Kerry guy
Clarence Page, writing for the Chicago Tribune, on “Blacks eye that John Kerry guy“: “John Kerry is not a black man,” she said, according to the Associated Press. “He is a […]
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