Shirley Sherrod shows Obama still finding his way on race
"By running a racially transcendent campaign, Obama may have implicitly sent a message to non-black people that he wouldn't address racial issues, so when racial issues come up, he's hamstrung."
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– Andra Gillespie, political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, speaking about the Shirley Sherrod case and why America's first black president stumbles on race.
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