"I had to deal with the obstacle of limited expectation on the part of people with whom I interacted and the people with whom I worked. If you’ve never seen an African-American in a certain position, a lot of times people will assume there are no African-Americans qualified to do that. [...]" (Waco Trib)
"We want to have a national footprint. There are no national brick-and-mortar African American businesses. You can go from cable companies or store to store and buy Ebony and Black Enterprise magazines, but I don't know where you can walk into an African American bank in Washington, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Richmond." (WaPo)
[...] The number of people in similar straits is rising today with the shifting populations of a globalized world. The emergence of new democracies is also a factor, particularly in Africa, where the granting or removal of citizenship is used as a political weapon.
By the most common count, there are 15 million stateless people in the world, but by its nature, this is a number nobody can know for certain. [...] (NYTimes)
"It's kind of hard to be out on campus and still be successful. As an out gay man, if I wanted to pledge, that door is pretty much shut to me. That's just the way it is." (WaPo)
"Black children really need black dolls. She wanted us to know there was nothing wrong with the way we looked, that we were just as beautiful as the blonde-haired, blue-eyed dolls." (BosGlobe)
[...] Sunday morning is still the most segregated time for America, but many churches will find themselves temporarily integrated by visits from various candidates of all races and their surrogates during election season. Obama shouldn't be expected to abandon his minister to appease political foes, but at the same time it's important he convince voters his preacher is a spiritual adviser and nothing more.
In the black church, your pastor is the considered the leader of your flock; if Obama wants to get to the White House, he will have to learn how to be a shepherd on his own. (JS Online)
"My first choice would be a minority. Because of the situations we've had, the difficulties with the minority populations, we need to normalize and stabilize that so the minority community feels the Police Department works for them." (Statesman.com)
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