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Glen Ford Answers Michael Eric Dyson On Obama; "Embracing Blackness" is Not the Problem
Bill Quigley
10 Jun 2009
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Contrary to what confused intellectuals like Dr. Michael Eric Dyson would have us believe, the president's unwillingness to "embrace blackness" is hardly the issue. In fact, Dyson gives the president an A for his handling of foreign and domestic affairs, as if "black affairs" are somehow in their own separate ghettoized world, apart and separate from war, peace, employment or who pays the bills.
 

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