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You would think that with Barack Obama becoming the Democrats' nominee for president that civil rights activists on the left would concede that we have finally arrived at a color-blind America. In reality, the emergence of Senator Obama has only brought about more discussion about race and the continued accusation of racism in America.

Adam Kleinheider pointed to an article regarding Jim Webb's views on the Confederacy yesterday and thinks me a hypocrite for not

Selwyn Duke tells the story:

The book was Todd Tucker's 'Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan'; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library....

I'm not the biggest fan of Robert Byrd in the world, while I understand people grew up in different times, I think being a high ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan is inexcusable...but if there was ever a time for his past to show itself, this election would be it:

An interesting discourse addressing one of our globe's most intractable problems - prejudice...

Scientific American Mind - May 1, 2008

From World Net Daily:

With the Clinton/Obama race threatening to go all the way to the convention, speculation has again started that a brokered convention may be in the offing.  Greg Mitchell looks at some historical parallels:

"Uncle Tom" is one of those terms that gets tossed around in the political arena that many of its users really can't define, sort of like the comparisons of Dubya to Hitler, or "the worst economy since Hoover," or any number of cliches whose actual meanings have become muddled.

Protesters boo Klansmen at Saturday rally in Selmer

The crowd had been waiting since well before the men had put on their robes, before they had placed the white lectern that read “KKK” in the courthouse yard.