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I have a full write up on my website but I want to throw it up for discussion here. Did McCain even want to win? I don't think so and I think I understand why. I have no way of seeing into McCain’s heart, but I imagine that when Barack Obama officially won the Democratic nomination John McCain felt like the race was already over. It must be difficult to stand against the tide of a historic event and I think being the alternative to the first African American president was not something John McCain wanted to be. There are...

AUDIO: Top Obama advisor calls white Americans RACIST, and says Obama is "BIRACIAL," not black: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dYPFfry6ncProf. Charles Ogletree also disclosed that the Obama campaign has Rev. Jememiah Wright in hiding until November 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfXMap08CWcProf. Ogletree made these and other controversial remarks just 8 days ago, in a speech at Harvard to Harvard Law alums. Ogletree has a history of such controversial remarks. For example, in a 2001 speech at Harvard just a month after 9/11, Ogletree said: Americans are not the "chosen people": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTuGeqlEuEAmericans are "superficial" patriots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcmMIhcIrCwAmericans are too dumb to realize they helped cause 9/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x8ZxZO8BFoWhite Christians are...

News flash: Obama is "biracial," according to his top adviser on race issues, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, during an Oct. 25 panel discussion at Harvard on race and the 2008 election: http://www.archive.org/details/OgletreeSaysObamaIsbiracial Ogletree's point is that because of pervasive racism which he expects will last decades, white America won't vote for blacks and other minority candidates. The expected heavy white vote for Obama doesn't disprove this thesis, Ogletree says, because Obama's not black; he's "biracial." So it looks like, according to Ogletree (and Obama?) that white America will have to do lots more for blacks after electing Obama to...

Vote Obama: he's half white! That's the pitch some Dem ward and union heelers are making to white voters in parts of Philadelphia. According to a Philly.com story, Biden gets mixed welcome in Northeast [emphasis added]: Mike McAleer, the veteran Democratic ward leader of the 66th ward in the far Northeast, said Obama and Biden haven't closed the deal yet. "The Dunkin' Donut crowd tells me that we've got everything going for us but Obama," McAleer said. "They can't give me a direct answer. Do I have them right now in the 66th ward? No. But I got 60 days...

What’s it like to grow up with one parent who is black and another who is white? In a recent paper I co-authored with Roland Fryer, Lisa Kahn, and Jorg Spenkuch, we look at data to try to answer that question. Here is what we find: 1) Mixed-race kids grow up in households that are similar along many dimensions to those in which black children grow up: similar incomes, the father is much less likely to be around than in white households, etc. 2) In terms of academic performance, mixed-race kids fall in between blacks and whites. 3) Mixed-race kids...

On blogs and around kitchen tables across the country, mixed-race Americans are celebrating the fact that, for the first time, a biracial person, Barack Obama, will be a major party's nominee for president of the United States. Obama identifies as African American, and much has been made of the historic nature of his candidacy, which could make him the country's first black president. But he also frequently evokes his mixed heritage: his white mother from Kansas and his black father from Kenya. His presence on the national political stage is being embraced by multiracial Americans as an opportunity to focus...

Sen. Barack Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. So why is he "black"? He is, to be accurate, biracial, equally black and white. Mr. Obama could choose to identify himself in a way similar to golfer Tiger Woods, who describes himself as "Cablinasian" — a mix of his Caucasian, black and American Indian father and his Asian mother (although "Kensan" or "Kanyan" don't have the same ring). Or Mr. Obama could label himself with obvious legitimacy as white - he was, after all, raised by his white mother and white...

What the Obama speech taught me, the mother of two biracial children, about myself, my kids - and America. ONE NIGHT SOME years ago, I tried to explain to my husband why it was that our future kids would be black kids. No matter how light or dark their skin turned out, no matter how coarse or cooperative their hair, chances were they would be black in the eyes of this racialized world, and I needed him to be prepared for that. So that they could be prepared for it. He looked at me like I was crazy. Then he...

Hoover Fellow and author Shelby Steele discusses why he believes Barack Obama has betrayed himself by not publicizing his white heritage.

Where else could a young man who grew up herding goats in Kenya get the chance to fulfill his dream of a college education? Where else could he marry a white girl from Kansas whose parents survived war and depression to find opportunity out west?

Follow this closely now; there's actually a point to it. According to an article by Paul Farhi of the Washington Post, reprinted Saturday in your San Francisco Chronicle, there is some sort of controversy raging because comedian Fred Armisen, who is of white and Asian origin, was chosen to portray Barack Obama, who is of Caucasian and African origin, in a skit on "Saturday Night Live." Yes, that was all the buzz at my house. Farhi, of the Post, reprinted in The Chronicle, quoted Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, who asked: "Call me crazy, but shouldn't 'Saturday Night Live's'...

A brainy black man named Barack Obama: 44th president of the United States? Michelle Obama signals to an Iowa audience that a certain initial skepticism is natural, recalling her first thoughts when her future husband arrived at her Chicago law firm as a summer associate: "I've got nothing in common with this guy. He grew up in Hawaii! Who grows up in Hawaii? He was biracial. I was like, okay, what's that about? And then it's a funny name, Barack Obama. Who names their child Barack Obama?" Hers is a lively riff, delivered with flair, and it draws smiles. Turning...

Growing up Bi-racial Joshua Brown (Joshua Brown is a cadet at Millersburg Military Institute in Kentucky. He is studying Journalism and Creative Writing.) Their hair may be black or golden brown. Their eyes may vary from cat green to bark brown. Skin tone may be light with freckles or a Hawaiian sun tan brown. These are some of the physical features of bi-racial persons. Bi-racial persons are faced with tough decisions when it comes to their families. White parents-in-law may not accept white daughters-in-law, or vice versa. The children of bi-racial marriages are often caught in the middle, having to...

Your wife, who unlike you is white, and who is expecting your first child, has been receiving the oddest reactions to the news of her pregnancy. Upon finding out, friends can't resist informing her that "interracial children are beautiful." It's said in a tone that suggests deep gratitude and admiration, although the reasons are a little unclear. The comment may be kindly meant, as a sort of reflexive compliment, but it inevitably suggests that she is being congratulated for her willingness to place the aesthetic enhancement of the populace above the imperatives of racial purity. She's heard the remark, or...

I heard this on our local CBS news last night and spend time trying to track the article down. I was incensed that a place that has my favorite ribs in Evanston for about two decades, the owner made the news in a way that infuriates me! 'I am a mutt' Father, restaurateur Hecky Powell takes controversy's heat in stride Hecky Powell, District 65 school board member and restaurateur serves up food to all and anger to some at Hecky's Barbecue, 1902 Green Bay Road, which now features the "MUTT special." Photo by Esther Chou. By Malavika Jagannathan May 27,...

AIKEN - Nick Hurshman looked forward to his 14th birthday party and a chance to see friends, most of whom he had known since kindergarten. So Nick invited about a dozen of his buddies from St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic School. Only three showed up. The others said their parents wouldn't let them come. After the October party, Nick went home and cried. That's the price Nick and his parents, Dennis and Regina Hurshman, say they have been paying since September when they sued St. Mary's and the Diocese of Charleston. Their lawsuit alleges a white teacher singled out...