Barack Obama’s post-race politics, Part II

Posted on Sunday, February 3, 2008 by blogmeridian2

(Part I is here)
So how does Barack Obama articulate a post-race politics in a nation–in a hemisphere–whose history has been shaped by racial tension literally since before Columbus? Here in the speech Obama gave at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, he reframes the theme of race in [...]

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Barack Obama’s post-race politics, Part I

Posted on Sunday, February 3, 2008 by blogmeridian2

(Originally posted at Blog Meridian–hence some of the internal links taking you there.)
“Old man, . . . have you lived so long and forgotten so much that you dont remember anything you ever knew or felt or even heard about love?” –William Faulkner, “Delta Autumn”
Readers of this blog know that I have come to admire [...]

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