January 24, 2010
Obama and the Enduring Divisions of Race
A year after Barack Obama was inaugurated as America's first black president, the nation has been gripped by a startling new reality: a cascading backlash of racially tinged anti-Obama sentiment. The breadth of antagonists has been wide: the 9/12 marchers against health-care reform brandishing signs labeling the president a traitor (and some carrying Confederate flags); Tea Party rallies objecting (sometimes with racial slurs) to real and imagined tax increases; a birther movement that
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