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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.
By Mike Madden

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  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:50 PM

    @ ethics_professor, Kate, Reality Counts

    What's CRT?

    Please do not mistake me. We're talking past one another, which (to me) is the root of our problems.

    First of all, I haven't "bought into" the notion that Kate is a racist.

    From what I've read, Kate demonstrates what I consider to be racializing tendencies. I am not suggesting anything about the core of Kate's being.

    I do not know Kate.

    Nor am I accepting the "reverse racism" of Pastor Wright.

    This is not what I'm suggesting.

    I'm suggesting that Pastor Wright is incendiary, especially to those outside of his own group, however you define it.

    I'm suggesting the same thing about Kate.

    I'm suggesting that the dynamics at work are the same, in so far as Obama is calling on us to talk to one another, regardless or who is or is not a racist, or who we think is or is not a racist.

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