People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
