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If Half-black Barack Obama Had Decided Years Ago To Call Himself White - Which His Genes Certainly Entitled Him To Do - His Story Would Have Carried Very Different Meaning. If Millions Of Part-black People Had Followed Him Into Whiteness, Then The N.a.a.c.p. Would Be In True Crisis.

We Tend To Think Of Politics As Bad, Full Of Dirty Tricks, Negative Ads, Big Campaigns, But I Am Here To Explore The Original Meaning Of Politics, Which Is Positive And Has To Do With Balancing Competing Interests And Looking For Solutions.

Great Numbers Of Asian Americans Do Not Fit The Model Minority Or 'tiger Family' Stereotypes, Living Instead In Multigenerational Poverty Far From The Mainstream.

Many Smart Folks Seem To Think That If You Just Get Your Metaphors And Messages Right, You'll Win. That If You Start Describing What You Favor As A 'moral Value' - 'affordable Health Care Is A Moral Value' Etc., - Then You'll Appeal To Red-state Voters.

The Nativism Behind The Push To Repeal Or Amend The Fourteenth Is Ugly And Obvious.