'I'm not somebody who uses race to score political points--quite the opposite.'
Time to kick off the workweek for most of you readers. Me, I'm on a Thursday-to-Monday shift, so today's my Friday. *jumps up and clicks heels together and looks absurdly pleased with self* Of course, there IS still Monday to weather. Speaking of which, let's read!
Jeff Zeleny's Chicago Tribune article "When it comes to race, Obama makes his point--with subtlety" is the newspaper's second in an occasional series on the freshman Illinois senator's first year on Capitol Hill. Come for the profile, but stay for the quotes at the end.
Staying in politics, you can go beyond the data-point hook ("In 2004, Hispanics outnumbered blacks by nearly 5 million in the population count, but blacks had nearly 7.5 million more eligible voters. To put it another way, eligible voters made up 39 percent of the Hispanic population compared with 64 percent of blacks") in Roberto Suro's Washington Post Sunday Outlook essay "Latino Power?: It Will Take Time for the Population Boom to Translate" and then veer off into Michael Ignatieff's New York Times meditation on freedom-spreading, "Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?"
