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Ask Dr. Cosmo- Vol. 16

2008-08-29T22:50:08Z

Doctor Cosmo answers a viewer's concern about Barack Obama's ethnicity.

Baagon Na Jaa

2008-06-17T10:27:47Z

Breakthrough and CMAC's video- Baagon Na Jaa addresses the issue of religious violence and discrimination through the story of a friendship between a Hindu man (Anupam Kher) and a Muslim boy (Rahul Bose). The video inspires us to see how our own friendships can transcend religion, ethnicity, and age, and create a more caring and responsible society.

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Shelby Steele - "Racial Masking" in American Popular Culture

2008-06-14T09:33:54Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele explains "racial masking," a phenomenon he identifies as a common experience for minorities in American culture.

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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win

Shelby Steele examines the challenges that Barack Obama must overcome in his bid to become President of the United States in A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win. Having to cater to both black voters and white voters in what binds Obama, and his dilemma is that he achieved visibility more as a racial icon than as an individual. In his analysis, Shelby Steele discusses his own mixed race background, and he empathizes with Obama's inner conflicts even as he critiques him. He also identifies the two 'masks' that blacks wear in order to seek success and power in the American mainstream: bargaining and challenging, and he argues that Obama is too constrained by divisive racial politics to find his own true political voice - and proposes a way for him to break those bonds and find his own voice.

Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Content of Our Character and White Guilt, and a contributing editor at Harper's; his work has also appeared in numerous other magazines and newspapers - Cody's Books

Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994.

Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations

In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Steele is the author of White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era and most recently A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.

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Where the Edwards Voters May Go

2008-07-19T19:54:40Z

Now that John Edwards has dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination, Gallup examines voting patterns to consider whom his supporters may choose instead.

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Why did Hillary win?

2008-01-25T09:48:21Z

[Cross-posted from culturekitchen]

I believe that Hillary Clinton won for 4 very important reasons :

1. The campaign was able to get as many registered Democrats to vote for her as possible.

2. Since most registered Democrats who came to vote were women, the "tear heard around the world" was successful in getting her the last minute sympathy vote from people who ...

3. would have otherwise voted for John Edwards.

I think it is clear that for Hillary Clinton to stay in the race she needs to beat John Edwards, not Barack Obama.

Edwards ran a remarkable game in Iowa. Had he had as much money as Clinton, he probably would have beaten her by more than just 1%. I am not sure though that under the voting trends of Iowa, he would have been able to beat Barack Obama.

4. The Obama campaign has insisted in equating their "I am not a black candidate" campaign with a complete disregard for the colored blogosphere. Yesterday was the day that it showed how much that has cost them.

So let's look at the numbers, courtesy of MSNBC.com:

The plight of Kenya's minority tribes - January 4

2008-06-09T09:31:36Z

The violence that has followed the disputed election in Kenya has highlighted the links between politics and ethnicity. Tribal ties do not automatically affect the way people vote - but many people do vote along tribal lines out of loyalty and respect for extended family and links to social groups.
Haru Mutasa reports from the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, where those from minority tribes have been forced from their homes.

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TPMtv Extra: Romney on Campaign Quotas

2008-06-14T09:33:44Z

Mitt Romney on CNN's Situation Room, November 26, 2007. Christian Science Monitor article, "A Muslim belongs in the Cabinet" by Mansoor Ijaz

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