In a speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, a month and a half ago, President Obama identified inequality as the “defining issue of our time.” Tuesday night, President Obama, in what may be his final State of the Union address, drew back from that theme, and was silent on that issue. In his State of the [...]
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Suppose Barack Obama is “A Magic Negro,” as some of his detractors saw and quickly ridiculed so that “thinking” people would not look into the possibility. Suppose we all have the possibility of being magical, depending on how much of our whole selves we can get to download from outer space or inner space or [...]
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My friend, the Miami businessman, Dave Williams, sees things differently than other people. He says this is because he is a space alien. “Muhammad Ali would have been proud of our President last night,” Dave said. I fastened my seat belt for a trip into outer space. “Obama did the rope-a-dope all year. He let [...]
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Like millions of other Americans I watched the State of the Union address by President Barack Obama almost as a moth drawn to a flame. I saw something afoot that I haven’t read about in the words of other columnists even though it was not something I expected. Whenever the President made a point that [...]
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What a long, strange year it’s been. A year that began with the loud insistence by some that Barack Obama’s election confirmed the United States as an essentially colorblind, post-racial nation went on to present a series of spectacular counterpoints to that claim – flaps over Attorney General Eric Holder’s “nation of cowards” race speech, [...]
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I enjoyed Obama’s first State of the Union address, in large part because I like listening to our President. I like seeing our first African American President too. Though I’m not so naive as to think that it’s an indication of a post-racial society (more on that later), I do think it’s an important milestone [...]
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The following is a statement from PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell on President Obama’s first State of the Union address: “A recovery that merely recreates our inequitable pre-recession economy is no recovery at all. Throughout his first year and his first State of the Union address, President Obama has made it clear that all Americans [...]
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Read President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address here. “Last night’s speech was President Obama at his oratorical best. Powerful opening—great walk through the struggles of our nation’s history. He was Presidential and confident. He was humble, yet scolding of the politicians that filled the chamber. The best line of the night came from [...]
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“Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our union. For two hundred and twenty years, our leaders have fulfilled this duty. They have done so during periods of prosperity and [...]
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