Kagan and Obama: Two “Race-Neutral” Peas in a Pod

On July 4, 2010, in African-American issues, Barack Obama, by Jerry Rose
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By Glen Ford

It is a measure of their timidity and lack principles that the civil rights establishment did not protest President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court. It is also, I believe, a great irony of history that the first Black president and his first white Supreme Court nominee share an ideology on race that is… Continue reading

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ELENA KAGAN IS OBAMA’S WATERLOO. AND OURS

On May 20, 2010, in African-American issues, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Obama/Progressives relationship, Supreme Court, by Jerry Rose
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By Margaret Kimberley

A Republican senator pledged to turn Barack Obama’s health care bill into his Waterloo, a reference to Napoleon’s defeat which put an end to his reign of conquest in Europe. Of course the mirage-like reform did pass and the Republicans’ prediction didn’t quite pan out as they hoped. Yet Obama is facing the beginning of the end of unqualified support in the black community… Continue reading

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