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<title><![CDATA[Gary Younge - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14779.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Gary Younge]]></description><category domain="14779">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[U.S. 'Broken as Hell' Over the Politics of Race &amp; Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/09/the-united-states-is-broken-as-hell-the-division-in-politics-over-race-and-class</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Marginalized groups in America are asserting themselves and, in doing so, making others sensitized to their condition]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's a Racist Conman--That's the Brand America Bought]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/28/donald-trump-michael-cohen-racist-conman-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Cohen'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s testimony may be horrifying but it is not shocking. The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supporters know exactly what he is]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neeson Shows That Black People Are Still Not Fully Human]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/05/liam-neeson-interview-black-people-actor-racism</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When an actor admits to looking for a black man to murder, racism is not some historical problem. We are still fair game]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In WI, Trump's Base Is Fired Up, But Will That Be Enough?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/30/wisconsin-republicans-trump-base-scott-walker</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party faithful in Kenosha believe Trump is delivering, but in an evenly matched state, the question is how many non-believers they can take with them]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Must Do More Than Oppose Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/09/democrats-oppose-trump-republicans-passive</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For too long, the party has been passive. It needs to stand for something, as well as against the president]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Controls Show We Value Money Over People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/16/end-immigration-controls-money-people-barriers</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager I went to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' West Berlin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with my local youth orchestra to take part in an Anglo-German cultural exchange. It was 1983 and the wall was up. As we toured the city over 10 days, we would keep butting into this grotesque cold war installation blocking our way, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Knows the Depth of America's Bigotry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/26/donald-trump-nfl-kneeling-national-anthem</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two Sundays ago, after a night of tense confrontations,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' police in St Louis trooped through the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' chanting: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Whose streets? Our streets.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' They were mocking marchers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' protesting at the acquittal of a former police officer, who had fatally shot a black man after a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Gun-Control Movement Fails]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/why-the-gun-control-movement-fails-2/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the evening of November 22, 2013, as the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s assassination drew to a close, Kenneth Mills Tucker, 19, sent a tweet letting the world know his plans for the night: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??Out with the gang Dooney Wayne n Rell what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s going on tonight.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's the Republican Racism, Stupid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/its-the-racism-stupid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, as the Republican-led House of Representatives engineered a brief government shutdown, Congressman Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) explained the strategy underpinning the protest. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We have to get something out of this,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'And I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know what that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bombing Won't Work Against the Islamic State]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/bombs-over-brains/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If a man beats his head against the wall,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci once wrote, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s his head that breaks and not the wall.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris, the British political class has been suffering terrible headaches....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deluded and Dysfunctional Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/08/deluded-dysfunctional-republicans-congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently, in an effort to embarrass Republicans pandering to their scientifically challenged base, Senate Democrats proposed a series of votes on climate change. While most Americans and the overwhelming majority of scientists believe climate change is real and people are the primary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[About &quot;Black-on-Black Crime&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/192361/about-black-black-crime</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly after Michael Brown was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, a local pizzeria owner, Jim Marshall, flashed a gun at black protesters after an argument. Some branded Marshall a racist and called for a boycott. A few weeks later, according to The Washington Post, his wife, Dawne,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Law Spoke But Ferguson Verdict Isn't Justice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/25/law-ferguson-verdict-not-justice-darren-wilson</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/25/law-ferguson-verdict-not-justice-darren-wilson]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is customary, when disturbances follow a verdict of the kind delivered by the Ferguson grand jury, for those in authority to buttress their appeals for calm with a higher calling: the rule of law. Without it there would be chaos; only through it can there be order. As President Barack...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans: Over-Reaching &amp; Underscoring]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/30/republicans-kansas-agenda-party-decline</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2006, Kansas Republican Sam Brownback was crowned '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'God'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s Senator'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' by Rolling Stone magazine. As he struggles for re-election as governor in this reliably conservative state, he is now praying for divine intervention. In 2010 he won the governorship by a 30-point margin. This year...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's &quot;At Least I Tried&quot; Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/22/obama-legacy-relevance-in-question-us-midterms</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/22/obama-legacy-relevance-in-question-us-midterms]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama ran as the embodiment of liberal hopes. With two years to go, it seems he will be remembered for his own, and the system'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s, limitations]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Progressive Vision of Urban America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/10/cities-progressive-urban-america-chicago-obama</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/10/cities-progressive-urban-america-chicago-obama]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992 one of his key aides, Rahm Emanuel, sat in the campaign'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s favourite restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, venting his frustration at those who had tried to stand in their way. He would call out a name, ram his steak knife into the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racism in America Is Getting Worse, Not Better]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/179968/truth-about-race-america-its-getting-worse-not-better</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thenation.com/article/179968/truth-about-race-america-its-getting-worse-not-better]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progress is an essential tenet of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s civic religion. As someone born and raised in England, where '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'not bad'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a compliment and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'could be worse'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is positively upbeat, this strikes me as an endearing national characteristic. But as with any religion, when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racism Is Far More Than Old White Men]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/18/racism-more-than-old-white-men-using-n-word</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/18/racism-more-than-old-white-men-using-n-word]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's hear it for Robert Copeland. The police commissioner of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire (population 6,083) sticks to his principles. Even if those principles are stuck in a previous century and mired in bigotry. In March Jane O'Toole was finishing her dinner at a bistro in town when she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Makes U.S. More Corruptible]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/06/money-bought-elections-us-donation-rules</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/06/money-bought-elections-us-donation-rules]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The finance chairman of the Republican national committee, Ray Washburne, travelled to Chicago last Wednesday to solicit money from two big funders who had reached their donation limit for this election cycle. While he was on the plane, the supreme court ruled that there would no longer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Murder of Jordan Davis Reflects Racist Culture]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/178455/freelance-stop-and-shoot</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a moment in the film 12 Years a Slave when Solomon Northup understands the depth of the trouble he is in. Lying shackled in a pen after having been drugged, kidnapped and sold to slave traders, he wakes up to protest to his captors that he is a free man. They demand to see his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Make the Poor Pay]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/us-republicans-make-poor-pay-budget</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/us-republicans-make-poor-pay-budget]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During a discussion at the University of Michigan in 2010, the billionaire vice-chairman of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway firm, Charles Munger, was asked whether the government should have bailed out homeowners rather than banks. "You've got it exactly wrong," he said. "There's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racism Is Central to U.S. Conservatism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/20/race-central-fear-angst-us-right</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/20/race-central-fear-angst-us-right]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the early 1980s veteran pollster Stan Greenberg, conducted a focus group in Macomb County, a Detroit suburb, of former Democrats who had switched allegiance to the Republican Ronald Reagan. After he read a statement by Robert Kennedy about racial inequality, one participant...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Playground Spat Damages U.S. Credibility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/06/shutdown-us-government-republican-party</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/06/shutdown-us-government-republican-party]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In September 2007 Gerrit Six put Belgium on eBay. It was day 100 of his country's attempt to form a government and an exasperated Six suggested selling it for parts. He offered free delivery but made it clear the country was secondhand and anyone who bought it would be saddled with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Now Open Season on Black Boys]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/14/open-season-black-boys-verdict</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/14/open-season-black-boys-verdict]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let it be noted that on this day, Saturday 13 July 2013, it was still deemed legal in the US to chase and then shoot dead an unarmed young black man on his way home from the store because you didn't like the look of him.The killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year was tragic. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racism Is Not Over in America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/25/voting-rights-act-supreme-court</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/25/voting-rights-act-supreme-court]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest cheers at an otherwise lacklustre Republican convention in Tampa last year was for Condoleeza Rice, who gave a glowing autobiographical account of her achievements in the third person. "A little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham," she said, "the segregated city of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Wolves Have Yet to Draw Blood]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/19/republican-wolves-obama-scandal-luck</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/19/republican-wolves-obama-scandal-luck]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The thing people often forget about the story of the boy who cried wolf was that, at the end of the day, there was a wolf. For the past six years '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' since Barack Obama announced his presidential intentions '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' Republicans have been crying themselves hoarse. Obama, if they were to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and the State of Black America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/why-loyal-to-president-not-loyal-to-us</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/why-loyal-to-president-not-loyal-to-us]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back when affirmative action was white, educational institutions were created for African Americans who were barred from admission elsewhere. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) became the breeding grounds for the "talented tenth" '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the elite class groomed to lead...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iron Lady Is Dead But Thatcherism Lives On]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/11/iron-lady-dead-thatcherism-lives</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/11/iron-lady-dead-thatcherism-lives]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1966, a little more than a year after Martin Luther King won the Nobel peace prize, only 33% of Americans had a favourable view of him, as opposed to 63% who viewed him unfavourably. It's not difficult to see why. He was a civil rights leader in a country where 85% of whites thought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From Beyonce to Lance: Contempt for the Public]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/27/we-ought-to-care-beyonce-faked-it</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/27/we-ought-to-care-beyonce-faked-it]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Be it lip-synching or doping, deception abounds. The danger is that we'll soon stop feeling outraged over this erosion in trustIn the science fiction film The Matrix, all-powerful machines transform the planet into a huge computer simulation where humans exist only in a dream world....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Necessary Show of Leadership on Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/obama-show-leadership-gun-control</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Younge</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This was properly presidential: major gun law reform may not get past this Congress, but Obama put his authority behind changeFinally. After years of silence, punctured by sombre responses to predictable slaughter, an American president has made a sober, principled and coherent...]]></description>
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