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Obama's post-racial promise

Nov. 5, 2008
Barack Obama seduced whites with a vision of their racial innocence precisely to coerce them into acting out of a racial motivation. For the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be its paramount leader. And the cultural meaning of this unprecedented...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler