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  • Obama’s “Double Consciousness” On Race

    Obama’s “Double Consciousness” On Race The New Yorker 2013-07-26 Jonathan Alter, Author, Reporter, Columnist, TV Analyst, Lecturer More than a century ago, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of the “double consciousness” of the black man: “One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings.” President Barack Obama’s extemporaneous…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera

    White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech

    Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech The Buffalo News 2013-07-20 Sonya Ross The Associated Press In a move unparalleled among presidents, Barack Obama reflects on being black in America. WASHINGTON – Something in President Obama’s voice caught Gregory C. Ellison’s ear. It was fleeting, subtle, and easy to miss — unless you’re a black…

  • Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness

    Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness The American Prospect 2013-07-19 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer On Obama’s remarks this afternoon. When President Obama issued a pro forma statement following last week’s verdict in the Zimmerman trial, there was some disappointment—“Why didn’t he say more?” It only takes a small step back to see the answer;…

  • Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American

    Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American The Washington Post 2013-07-20 David Maraniss Trayvon Martin, the president said, could have been him 35 years ago. That would have been Barack Obama at age 17, then known as Barry and living in Honolulu. He had a bushy Afro.…

  • Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin

    Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin The Washington Post 2013-07-20 Dan Balz, Chief Correspondent President Obama’s comments on Friday about the killing of Trayvon Martin were remarkable in many respects, but not least because of the distance he has traveled since the equally notable speech he delivered in 2008 during the controversy about his…

  • Barack and Trayvon

    Barack and Trayvon The New York Times 2013-07-19 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed Columnist On Friday President Obama picked at America’s racial wound, and it bled a bit. Despite persistent attempts by some to divest the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman tragedy of its racial resonance, the president refused to allow it. During a press briefing, Mr.…

  • This is the speech we’ve been waiting for

    This is the speech we’ve been waiting for Politico 2013-07-19 Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religion University of Pennsylvania President Obama’s surprise remarks Friday about Trayvon Martin, race in America and the Zimmerman trial will be remembered far longer than his “race” speech in March 2008 in Philadelphia. That speech, entitled “A More Perfect Union,”…

  • There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.

    You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African-American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think…

  • Remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin

    Remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin The White House Office of the Press Secretary James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2013-07-19, 17:33Z (13:33 EDT) Barack H. Obama, President of the United States I wanted to come out here, first of all, to tell you that Jay is prepared for all your questions and is very…