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by Denis Campbell
Would anyone vote for him with his character and history if he’d been black? To be black in politics, means to be perfect in every way, every moment of every day. He would have had to set and live his life to an impossible standard of perfection ‘off’ his field of play that [...]
Posted on 05 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bobby Kennedy, Chicago, clinton, I Have a Dream, John McCain, Kenya, Martin Luther King, Minneapolis, obama, President, Senate, Xcel Energy Center
The last 36-hours have been overwhelming in historical significance. A young black man, born of mixed-race parents, raised by a single white mother in Indonesia and later white grandparents in Hawaii, obtained a top Ivy League education, worked as a lawyer in Chicago helping to organise union members, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then became a [...]
A video on the dynamic steps being taken (tongue in cheek) by the industry to make itself relevant.
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