The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. episode in the heart of Massachusetts’ liberal intellectualism revived latent feelings in people of all races nationwide. A spark set off a conflagration in the “Republic of Cambridge,” Massachusets and has all the nation up in arms, except in countries where people subjected to real race riots and even genocide […]
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Mad About Race Again
August 8, 2009Just Do the Right Thing
January 25, 2009The election of a black president is not to say we have vanquished American racism Beware of thinking this is a new day in race relations. It is and it isn’t. For many young people, black and white, the civil rights movement is ancient history; the rest of us remember vividly segregated schools and separate […]
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