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Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware…spent the day struggling to explain his description of Senator Barack Obama…as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
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“While black kids discovering Indie has been widely reported about…an equally shocking and befuddling shift in cultural values has been largely ignored on the web: white Hip Hop fans are tuning in to Indie Rock in droves.”
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“What Biden said burned of a destructive mentality that sees smart black people as exceptions as opposed to the rule. Or that don’t associate the number of successful blacks people with their blackness.”
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“Instead of celebrating the great achievements made by present day blacks…and past blacks alike for the greater good of the nation, a good number of whites pull out their aluminum poles and start berating blacks for being given a month dedicated to our
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of