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	<description>Exploring the Legacy of Slavery and Race in the United States</description>
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		<title>President Obama as a rampaging chimpanzee?</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/president-obama-as-a-rampaging-chimpanzee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking about race, privilege and inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Post, in its infinite wisdom, ran the cartoon shown here in today&#8217;s edition. The illustration refers to yesterday&#8217;s shooting by police in Connecticut of an out-of-control chimpanzee, while the dialogue refers to President Obama&#8217;s signature legislative item, the stimulus bill which he signed on the same day. The reason that so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s family ties to slavery</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/10/mccains-family-ties-to-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Historical amnesia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent news reports have publicized the fact that John McCain&#8217;s family owned slaves in the pre-Civil War South. As Douglas Blackmon related on the pages of the Wall Street Journal last Friday, Senator McCain&#8217;s great-great-grandfather owned a 2,000-acre plantation in Teoc, Mississippi where about 120 slaves labored in bondage. Today at the Huffington Post, Abby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Powell on intolerance in U.S. politics</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/10/756/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colin Powell, in his endorsement of Barack Obama moments ago on NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press, offered a bit of welcome honesty on the subject of our nation&#8217;s attitude towards those of other races and religions. He was discussing his deep discomfort with false statements being made by senior members of his own political party about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The current electoral map</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/10/the-current-electoral-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;re all aware, the momentum of the presidential campaign has shifted significantly towards Obama in recent weeks. As of today, for example, Obama leads McCain in the national polls by as much as fourteen percentage points (53% to 39%), compared with gaps of four or five points as recently as a week earlier. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama clinches nomination</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/06/obama-clinches-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, based on a conservative Associated Press tally of delegates. The Associated Press is reporting that Obama is guaranteed to end the primaries today with enough delegates to secure the party&#8217;s nomination at the convention in August. Their tally is based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain on the abolition of the slave trade</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/05/john-mccain-on-the-abolition-of-the-slave-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/05/john-mccain-on-the-abolition-of-the-slave-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bicentennial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few in the United States have taken the opportunity to acknowledge, much less to commemorate, the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the U.S. slave trade in 1808. For this reason, I was pleased to see that Senator John McCain gave a campaign speech on Wednesday in Michigan, in which he took the importance of the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Bush Family&#8217;s Slaveholding Past&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/02/the-bush-familys-slaveholding-past/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/02/the-bush-familys-slaveholding-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Ball, the author of the award-winning Slaves in the Family and an early supporter of Traces of the Trade, has a fascinating essay at The Root, unpacking the slave-owning history of the Bush family. The essay starts with the brief observation in Jacob Weisberg&#8217;s The Bush Tragedy that the ancestors of presidents George H.W. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama on race</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2007/10/barack-obama-on-race/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2007/10/barack-obama-on-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking about race, privilege and inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiracial identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to offer up this passage by Senator Obama, on his racial and ethnic background and experiences, and implicitly, how he tends to view race and ethnicity in our society: As the child of a black man and white woman, born in the melting pot of Hawaii, with a sister who is half-Indonesian, but [...]]]></description>
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