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Article: Obama tries to sidestep growing debate on race and politics
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- International Herald Tribune
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- September 18, 2009
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JEFF ZELENY; JIM RUTENBERG
International Herald Tribune
09-18-2009
Obama tries to sidestep growing debate on race and politics
Byline: JEFF ZELENY; JIM RUTENBERG
Type: News
President Barack Obama has long suggested that he would like to move beyond race. The question now is whether the country will let him.
President Barack Obama has long suggested that he would like to move beyond race. The question now is whether the country will let him.
He woke up Wednesday to a rapidly intensifying debate about how his race factors into the broader discussion of civility in politics, a question prompted in part by former President Jimmy Carter's assertion Tuesday that racism was behind a Republican ...
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