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Wednesday’s Grapevine
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- Political scientist Tom Schaller writes a widely-discussed op-ed in the New York Times saying that Barack Obama has no chance whatsoever of winning in the southern states.
- The Obama campaign clearly does not believe that. They are focusing on registering Black voters in the south, believing that that might make the needed difference, reports the Wall Street Journal.
- Nick Bryant in the Australian writes a detailed survey of exactly what the Obama campaign means, placing it in the context of the changes that the US has seen since the early 1960s.
- The San Jose Mercury-News investigates the effect that the historic Obama campaign is having on comedy, of both the risky stand-up and safer late-night TV monologues.
- The New York Daily News profiles “the greatest athlete in the country”, the decathlete Bryan Clay, who has had to perform a “balancing act” all his life: he is half Japanese, half African-American.
- The South is still not safe for Black churches. Several rural churches in Mississippi have been defaced over the past few weeks with spray-painted KKK slogans. The Marshall News-Messenger points out that poor communities are finding this a heavy financial burden as well.
- San Francisco commemorates the fourth of July a little differently from the rest of the country. This year, through “a staged version of Frederick Douglass’ famed 1852 speech decrying the hypocrisy of slavery in a supposedly free country, ” according to the Oakland Tribune.
- A computer programmer in Silicon Valley has received $180,000 as a settlement for a racial discrimination lawsuit. Apparently, “the lawsuit alleged that a male employee had to listen on a regular basis to a 27-year-old co-worker playing and rapping aloud to music lyrics that included racial epithets such as the ‘N-word.’ ”
- This past weekend was Gay Pride weekend, commemorating the Stonewall riots for gay rights in the 1970s. The Windy City Times reminds us that 350,000 people attend Black Gay Pride events in 35 cities nationwide every year.
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports from the funeral of Tuskegee airman Lt. Col. Chuck Dryden, instrumental in breaking down racial barriers in the US military.
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think he related to Tiger woods? LOL
that 912 million law settlement by united allied caught my attention in wsj