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Obama win doesn't erase inequality
A black man may be moving to the White House, but racial disparity lingers in many ways.
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Trying to keep the race game alive
QandO — It’s is going to be tough: The day after Barack Obama was elected president, Kari Fulton heard a white colleague proclaim that racism in America is dead. She cringed, worrying that it might be a sign of flagging interest in the fight against discrimination. "In reality, racism is still very much alive and well," said Fulton, who graduated last year from Howard University, a historically black college in the nation’s capital.Fulton is 23. And she apparently has no idea what has changed in this country ...

AP Finds Race Hustler to Say Obama Isn't The Cure
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... As the AP reports it, apparently young Kari Fulton "cringed" when Barack Obama won the past election. She "cringed" because she heard a white guy say that Obama's election put a dent in the charge of racism in America. And why did she "cringe"? Why, it's because "racism is still very much alive and well" she told the AP. ...

AP Finds Race Hustler to Say Obama Isn’t The Cure
Stop The ACLU — -By Warner Todd Huston [image] The Associated Press is worried that Americans might accidentally imagine that the elevation of Barack Obama to the presidency could make people think that blacks in America really can get ahead. The AP is so worried that it sought out a race hustler to deny that blacks can make it here no matter what happened on November 4. As the AP reports it , apparently young Kari Fulton “cringed” when Barack Obama won the past election. She “cringed” because she heard a white guy say that Obama’s election put a dent in the charge of racism in America. And ...

AP Finds Race Hustler to Say Obama Isn't The Cure
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... As the AP reports it, apparently young Kari Fulton "cringed" when Barack Obama won the past election. She "cringed" because she heard a white guy say that Obama's election put a dent in the charge of racism in America. And why did she "cringe"? Why, it's because "racism is still very much alive and well" she told the AP. ...

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