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I was aware that the ascension of Nicolas Sarkozy, known affectionately as “Sarko the American” to his countrymen, to the presidency of France was going to have positive ramifications, but I had no idea just how much difference it would make. As the world has once again witnessed the thuggish behavior of the septuagenarian and…

I’m a supporter of Senator Hillary Clinton, but you wouldn’t know it from all the times I’ve had to come to the defense of Barack Obama over these past few weeks. I like to think of myself as a loyal Clinton supporter. But American politics and the history of race relations in this country being…

Senator Obama has a problem: the hardening of the American heart, the closing of the American mind, the shriveling of our souls, the shrinking capacity of our imaginations, our jaded senses, the seen-it-all attitude that makes us into sneering voyeurs too mean spirited to save ourselves. I was a guest on a PRI radio show…

Whenever Americans discuss the issue of race, there are always ghosts in the room with us—the ghosts of racial sins and racial hurts from our shared and tragic past. Race has always been the serpent in the American Eden, the birth defect in our historic genetic code. Senator Obama’s speech earlier this week used one…
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