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The Central Point

By m3t00 | Published: 08-05-14
Brent Staples in the today’s NYT: But Central Point, [Va.,] which had been a visibly mixed-race community since the 19th century, was home to a secret but paradoxically open interracialism. The community’s story goes a long way toward explaining how [Mildred and Richard Loving] thought about race and why they behaved as they did. This [...]
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McCain vs Obama, round one

By m3t00 | Published: 08-05-13
Mr. Kerrey: “Mr. McCain is getting an honorary degree. He was invited to speak. First was Barak Obama. Both say yes and/or both say no.” Jean Sara Rohe’s prebuttal of McCain’s commencement speech, and her later explanation. McCain chief of Staff Mark Salter: “The only person you have succeeded in making look like an idiot [...]
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