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Archive for July 23rd, 2008

23 Jul

CNN’s ‘Black in America’ - Open Thread

I watched Part One. And besides not understanding why the interstitial set ups featured an…ahem…distinctively dressed black man rhyming, I thought it was a satisfactory overview of some of the issues that many black people, and Americans of all colors, are thinking about.
As in all cable and television network news programs, the show never grabbed [...]

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23 Jul

American Medical Association apologizes to blacks: First do no harm

I write about race because my love for America, for the promise of her expressed principles, compels me to do so. As I experience it, racism is America’s gangrene. There are times when affected extremities have been treated with low grade antibiotics, but collectively we have never been able to excise the rotted flesh from [...]

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