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Race issue haunts Obama again
With a black President, in the White House, can race issues be far behind? A new controversy for Barack Obama over the Shirley Sherrod episode brings the spotlight on the colour of Obama's officials - the question being asked: Is Barack Obama's White House too white? That's what the NYT's columnist Maureen Dowd says.This accusation has been caused ...
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President Obama and the race issue
It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...
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Race issue haunts Obama again
With a black President, in the White House, can race issues be far behind? A new controversy for Barack Obama over the Shirley Sherrod episode brings the spotlight on the colour of Obama's officials - the question being asked: Is Barack Obama's White House too white? That's what the NYT's columnist Maureen Dowd says.This accusation has been caused ...
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President Obama and the race issue
It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...
