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race race

November 22, 2008 – 8:31 pm

A national poll taken last week showed that 69 percent of Americans believe that race relations will improve with Obama in office. And I don’t blame this majority for their optimism: after all, didn’t you see all those people — black and white alike — crying their eyes out in Grant Park on November 4th? [...]

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missing in action

March 28, 2008 – 9:07 pm

I kind of dropped the ball last week, and I’m sorry. There are many perfectly good reasons for it, though, and I thought I might detail them for you so you can feel like you’re more involved in my life.
news.
My life mentor, Salim Muwakkil, came to speak at Whitman this week, which was a [...]

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election

February 1, 2008 – 6:31 am

I’m burned out. Are a lot of people burned out? Does this happen every election year, or are we all just uniquely DONE with G.W. to the extent that don’t know what to do rather than turn the ‘08 election into a veritable Us Weekly special edition? As the kind of person who eats up [...]

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cold blood

July 17, 2007 – 2:48 pm

Bob Herbert’s opinion piece in the Times this morning was about Senator Barack Obama’s speech yesterday at the Vernon Park Church of God, in which he addressed the increasing number of murders among Chicago school children in the past year.
Herbert’s column basically parrots Mr. Obama’s plea for greater governmental action as well as individual responsibility:
In [...]

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