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huffingtonpost.com - 1/16/2008
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At first I took it as another, yawn, white rip-off of black culture and creativity: the Rolling Stones appropriating the Bo Diddley beat, Bo Derek sporting corn rows, and now Hillary giving Lyndon Baines Johnson credit for the voting rights act of 1965. If you had to give this honor to a white guy, LBJ was an odd choice, since he'd spent the 1964 Democratic convention scheming to prevent the ...
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Bob Herbert And Barbara Ehrenreich: We Are Feeling The Love [Opinions That Are Less Like Assholes]
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... both wrote opinion pieces this week about the Hillary-Obama battles that I meant to devote some time to praising. I mean if anything has been sorta productive about this BATSHIT CRAZY EMOTIONAL primary campaign, it's that it's given white women a chance to reflect on how much they love black men, and black men to reciprocate in kind for white women.* Anyway, so Bob wrote about Jamie Lee Jones and the desensitizing of our society to "dark persistence of misogyny in America." Then Barb penned a piece on the historic importance of Martin Luther King and the indisputable ...
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