Opinion Forum

Obama’s America in Black & White

June 23rd, 2011

By Seth Forman Black political segregation, nurtured by the policies of the 1960s, has only hardened in the Obama years. Platitudes about the civic utopia that would spring forth from the election of Barack Obama have vanished. Thomas Friedman’s claim that “the American Civil War ended, as a black man … became president of the […]

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Tags: African American, black, dependence, polarization, race, welfare, white
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When Will We Have Another Black President?

September 5th, 2010

By Dan Miller During the 2008 political campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama called for a national discussion on race. Later, Attorney General Eric Holder called us a nation of cowards for not having such discussions: He said that Americans are afraid to talk about race, adding that “certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them […]

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Tags: African American, Allen West, black, Holder, Obama, President, race
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Racism, Education And Tea

February 23rd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin As noted in my bio, I do not own a television. But in this day and age, there are other ways to get hold of interesting visual media than writing out a check to Comcast. Which is how I found this special on education by John Stossel, a news anchor who recently […]

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Tags: African American, black, charter schools, minority, vouchers
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