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20 Feb 2008 09:01 am
Malkin Award Nominee
[Patrick Appel]
"...all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth,
some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very
culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white
mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not
necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had
these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy
for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not
the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a
different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man
in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit
Communist politics...Time for some investigative journalism about the
Obama family's background, now that his chances of being president have
increased so much," - Lisa Schiffren.
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