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Barack Obama and the Politics of Race

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01.: Why Are We Excited About Obama?

02 min 27 sec

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02.: Obama's Distinction

01 min 33 sec

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03.: Hitchens' Comment on Obama's Race

05 min 13 sec

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04.: Becoming an Authentic Black

03 min 55 sec

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05.: Reconciling Attending an Ethnic Church

03 min 39 sec

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06.: Challengers / Bargainers

03 min 10 sec

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07.: Oprah: Hypothetical Experiment

02 min 55 sec

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08.: Betrayal of a Bound Man

03 min 19 sec

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09.: Obama's Comparison to Reagan

01 min 51 sec

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10.: Obama Becoming an Individual

01 min 11 sec

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11.: The White Voting Base

01 min 02 sec

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12.: Clinton vs Obama

01 min 19 sec

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13.: Political Predictions

02 min 15 sec

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parkflies

Posted: 10.19.08, 11:23 PM

The phenomenon of American Blackness is a product of early and overwhelming rejection by American Whiteness. The Black American culture was conceived apart and yet inside, tentatively born with the essential tasks of salvage and survival. Untold and, as yet, partially investigated psychic distress is a part of the legacy. Maybe I'm a bit too sensitive but one of the unasked questions I glean from conversations like this is "Why hasn't blackness yet expired in America?", and it bothers me. As if in a future better America future better Blacks will necessarily be Blackless. Recovering from the deliberately limiting effects of imposed 'otherness' while that otherness remains imbedded in your identity and continues to offer you value as well as confusion requires psychic calisthenics poorly understood by those who neither share the experience nor the effort.

prgill

Posted: 07.13.08, 02:48 AM

Keep the Revolution Alive

This is one of the most intelligent and thought provoking discussions I have heard on the race issue in a long, long while. Dr. Steele is brilliant (and unfortunately, a Republican). His personal culture is Midwest and West Coast. He speaks to the "media" as the media wish to be spoken to. Is this his mask...? Certain inflections in his voice and manner remind me of one of my own heroes, Bill Cosby. Dr. Steele's characterization of "bargainers" and "challengers" is certainly appropriate, but I think incomplete. Where his characterization fails is in its underestimation of the "third way", the "personal responsibility" way. Of course, in speaking to media, personal responsibility is a hard sell and hardly motivating: personal responsibility does not make for good ratings. But personal responsibility is that "still small voice" that each of us hears and ultimately, yes ultimately obeys. (Ahhh... The moral force of personal responsibility, wouldn't that be subject for future debate.) We are now seven months on (from the Fora.tv interview) and Obama is the presumptive nominee. He (and his advisors) are reinventing the candidate's political persona to co-opt the conservative agenda on key issues. This is politics as it is played and will be played. If Dr. Steele is proud of what Obama has done for brothers and sisters throughout the land, as a WASP refugee of the New Orleans battlefront (and New Orleans has produced its share of great Americans, many of whom live today and should be recognized for their contribution to youth education, civil rights and the arts), I am proud of what Obama has done and is doing for America in the eyes of the world. Sign me "Hopeful in France".

locknroll

Posted: 06.05.08, 04:30 PM

What I want to know is how do you not give a white American the benefit of the doubt if you don't know them.

savageb

Posted: 03.25.08, 02:28 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by FreedomFry AFFIRMATIVE ACTION = RACIST Racism connotes privilege and power. Affirmative Action is an attempt to reverse hundreds of years of instituted racism, leveling the playing field so to speak. Whether it is an effective policy or not can be debated, but racist it is not.

Dekuson

Posted: 03.15.08, 07:25 PM

Peter Robinson did a decent job in this interview... but what was missing was a basic question he should/could have posed to Shelby Steele... Did/Have you read Obama's first book "Dreams From My Father"? Or perhaps Peter should have read this book himself before doing this interview. I see where Shelby is coming from and he does make some valid points vis-a-vis "The Bargainer".... I hope he's sincere though when he says he's proud of Barack. I really hope he's sincere. After watching Barack campaign for the past year..... I can't say I know him either.... But this is what I know for sure. He is a DECENT and a man of CHARACTER.

FreedomFry

Posted: 03.14.08, 04:29 PM

one day we must all realize the democRATs to be true RACISTS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION = RACIST preference based on RACE instead of MERIT is a RACIST philosophy OBAMA success is on race - if he were not black he would not e running for president - even clinton supporters think so, see geraldine ferrarro - democRAT AFFIRMITVE ACTION once again sorry but its true!