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The city and police force that Giuliani built has done it again. They’ve acquitted the shooters of another unarmed black man. Looking to outdo the travesty from 1999 against Amadou Diallo when 41 shots were fired, the police fired 50 shots at the unarmed man, Sean Bell and his companions, who were at Bell’s [...]

I just caught an interesting analysis by Matthew Yglesias over at the Atlantic Monthly. His analysis suggests that we are hugely misreading the class issue in voting patterns by confusing class and race. His point is simple: if you take ALL voters who made less than $50,000, John Kerry won that group [...]

I think Bill Cosby is on to something. In this month’s issue of the Atlantic, you will find a terrific article chronicling Bill Cosby’s transformation from America’s dad to the 21st century Booker T. Washington. The most interesting thing about Cosby is that his legacy comes from Malcolm X more than Martin Luther [...]

I came across a very interesting article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which highlights how race has really evolved as an issue in the last 20-odd years. The article is about Michelle Obama’s first college roommate. She roomed with a white girl from New Orleans, whose racist mother wanted to have her room assignment [...]

I have been outside of the U.S. away from the U.S. media for quite a while now. Coming back to America, I hear about the debate on whether we are bitter in this country over 35 years of eroding income. The answer is: of course we are. I know I am and [...]

Pennsylvania is shaping up to be the key state to decide how long this Democratic primary contest lasts. Before the Jeremiah Wright scandal hit, Hillary Clinton had a massive lead in all the Pennsylvania polls. Yet, after Obama’s race speech and an endorsement by Bill Richardson, Obama had cut Clinton’s lead in the [...]

Thomas Sowell, a right-wing American economist, has released an interesting take on Barack Obama and the Jeremiah Wright conflict. He contends that Obama is actually far, far to the left of center and is closer to Wright’s views than many of us think.
I don’t agree, but it is an interpretation of events [...]

David Brooks explains Hillary Clinton’s situation better than I can, so I will quote him in entirety here from his column at the NYTimes (link)
By DAVID BROOKS

Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but she’s just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign.
First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious [...]

I was watching a video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright on the Times of London Website, a British paper. As I was watching Wright preach, almost singing in a rhythmical cadence, I marveled at Wright’s charisma, his hypnotic prose and his skill in giving the bible a modern-day message every man could use. But, it [...]