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<title><![CDATA[DeWayne Wickham - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14928.xml</link><description><![CDATA[DeWayne Wickham]]></description><category domain="14928">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Doesn't Know a Thing About Baltimore]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/02/dewayne-wickham-baltimore-twitter-donald-trump-rat-column/1889821001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Baltimore's legendary journalist H.L. Mencken nailed Donald Trump and his racism exactly with a description of the narcissistic 'mob man' politician.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Castro Bedeviled the United States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/26/castro-cuba-africa-assassination-dictator-column/94483712/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the end, it was a diseased body and the infirmities of age that drained the life from Fidel Castro, not one of the many assassination plots hatched by the CIA or his enemies among the gaggle of aging Cuban expatriates based in Miami'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Little Havana. For nearly half a century...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bland's Fate Sealed by Bad Policing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/07/27/sarah-bland-suicide-death-texas-trooper/30705659/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sandra Bland is dead because of the treatment she received at the hands of Brian Encinia.While the question of whether the 28-year-old Illinois woman actually committed suicide after her encounter with the Texas state trooper landed her in jail is being debated, what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s certain is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Warning on Racial Injustice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/06/29/pinckney-eulogy-black-police-killings-column/29426809/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's understandable that for many people, the attention-getter in the eulogy President Obama gave for Clementa Pinckney, the black South Carolina state senator and minister who was killed in his church by a white racist, was what he said about "grace" and "forgiveness."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Michelle Obama Really Said]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/05/11/tuskegee-michelle-commencement-wickham/27085989/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I hope people who attended Tuskegee University's commencement on Saturday got Michelle Obama's message. I hope they paid more attention to what she said than how some news media organizations portrayed the first lady's speech to graduates of the historically black Alabama school.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Spite Bars Loretta Lynch Approval]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/23/lynch-nomination-wickham-republicans-column/25185075/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA["In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican," H.L. Mencken, the acerbic columnist and social critic, once wrote.The man they called "the Sage of Baltimore" was talking about the Republican Party of Warren...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christianity, Islam Cloaks for Many Sins]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/02/09/president-obama-christianity-slavery-religion-wickham/23081193/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Message to Jim Gilmore: I am not offended.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Shortly after President Obama recited a history lesson at the National Prayer Breakfast last week that every American student should have learned in middle school, the former Virginia governor pushed his way onto the national stage by claiming...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mocking Mohammed Crosses the Line]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/01/19/charlie-hebdo-cross-line-free-speech-covers-islam-limits-wickham/21960957/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Charlie Hebdo has gone too far.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In its first publication following the Jan. 7 attack on its Paris office, in which two Muslim gunmen massacred 12 people, the once little-known French satirical news weekly crossed the line that separates free speech from toxic talk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Silence of NYC's Good Cops Widens Divide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/29/police-tarnish-image-dewayne-wickham-column/20969043/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Mayor Bill de Blasio stepped to the podium Saturday to eulogize Rafael Ramos, one of two New York City cops killed by a black gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, five days before Christmas, hundreds of police outside the church staged a silent protest that sullied the solemn occasion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A GOP Sneak Attack on Obama Daughters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/01/lauten-turkey-facebook-attack-president-children-wickham-column/19703209/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Lauten's resignation doesn't surprise me. As a Republican Party communications specialist, she was more of a bull in a China shop than an artful word merchant. Her undoing was her clumsy attempt to strike a blow against the president through a social media attack on his teenage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Show Disdain for Blacks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/11/17/dewayne-wickham-barbour-gop-racism-tar-baby-obama-column/19135119/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Not enough has been said about former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour's use of the words "tar babies" to describe the policies of Barack Obama, this nation's first black president.When it got out that he had used the tainted language during a conference call with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bergdahl Swap Defense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/06/09/bowe-bergdahl-pow-swap-taliban-dewayne-wickham-column/10198981/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've been waiting for someone in the White House to offer a cogent defense of President Obama's decision to swap five Taliban fighters for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held hostage in Afghanistan for five years.So far, that hasn't happened.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Holder Cites True Threat to Civil Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/19/eric-holder-racism-civil-rights-dewayne-wickham-sterling-copeland-column/9251769/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The thing to remember about the commencement address Attorney General Eric Holder gave Saturday is not that he wrote off the racist musing of people such as Donald Sterling and Robert Copeland. As deplorable as they were, he correctly said, they "are not the true markers of the struggle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Seeks to Fix What Ails Minority Males]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/10/dewayne-wickham-brothers-keeper-obama-minorities-column/6233199/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I went to the White House more than a week after President Obama's announcement "to build ladders of opportunity" for young black and Hispanic males, his close adviser Valerie Jarrett was still pumped up by the idea.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mandela's Unbreakable Link w/Black America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/12/09/nelson-mandela-south-africa-black-america-dewayne-wickham-column/3908987/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Nelson Mandela arrived in New York City four months after his 1990 release from detention after 27 years in a South African prison, he was widely '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and wrongly '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' seen as just the leader of an African struggle for self-determination. But as I quickly learned, he was much...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Party Escalates Republican Civil War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/11/18/tea-party-cochran-senate-dewayne-wickham-column/3619373/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. -- Welcome to the Republican civil war, Mississippi division.Tea Party linked activist groups have already fired the first salvo in the fight for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Thad Cochran. By campaigning to unseat Cochran, the Senate's second-longest serving...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Redskins' Snyder No Misguided Good Guy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/11/11/washington-redskins-name-racism-native-americans-dan-snyder-column/3489523/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the controversy over his NFL football team's nickname, Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is no misguided good guy.To give him that absolution is to allow for the possibility that there were good slave owners. To accept the argument that he is a well-meaning innocent, who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz's Rising Star Helps Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/21/ted-cruz-tea-party-presidential-election-dewayne-wickham/3092881/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have got to love Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, almost as much as members of the Tea Party, the GOP fringe group that hoisted him into national office.In office just ten months, Cruz has slashed and burned his way to the front ranks of would-be candidates for the Republican Party's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blocking Obamacare Evidence of Racism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/07/race-obamacare-immigration-republicans-dewayne-wickham/2932135/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The gathering at Morgan State University was supposed to be a panel discussion about a series of events that rocked the civil rights movement in 1963, the most tumultuous year of this country's struggle for racial justice. But shortly before it ended, a man from the audience rose to ask...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Focus Attention on Gangs, Not Trayvon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/29/trayvon-zimmerman-black-guerrilla-family-column/2593355/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE -- Four days after a Florida juryacquitted George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin, U.S. marshals tracked Darryl Andersonto Birmingham, Ala. After a brief standoff, the 25-year-old thug on the lam from Baltimore emerged from an apartment with his hands in the air.While the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Relish Role as Party of No]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/05/21/republicans-gop-obstructionism-dewayne-wickham/2346683/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Never lacking chutzpah, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Chief Obstructionist of the Party of No, turned up on Meet the Press Sunday to denounce the Obama administration for creating "a culture of intimidation" that led the IRS to target conservative, non-profit groups for special...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Scott Runs Up the White Flag]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/02/25/dewayne-wickham-on-dramatic-reversal-by-gov-scott/1943299/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rick Scott, the Tea Party-backed political neophyte who overcame a health care fraud scandal en route to a surprise victory in Florida's 2010 gubernatorial election, has agreed to implement one of the most controversial parts of President Obama's Affordable Care Act.Scott's decision to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christie, Not Rubio, Best Bet in 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/02/18/dewayne-wickham-on-christie-versus-rubio/1926109/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP's chances of winning the White House in 2016 are linked more closely to the political fortunes of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie than those of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.Rubio is the Tea Party wunderkind who was tapped by Republicans to give the GOP response to President Obama's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Killing of Young Blacks Is a Pandemic]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/02/11/dewayne-wickham-on-blacks-and-gun-violence/1906819/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the same day Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx was in Miami for a march in remembrance of the senseless killing of a 17-year-old Florida boy, first lady Michelle Obama went to Chicago to attend the funeral of a 15-year-old girl whose slaying also tests this nation's sobriety.Only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NRA, LaPierre Selling Snake Oil]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/24/nra-newtown-gun-control-armed-guards/1787423/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like a snake oil salesman hawking a questionable elixir, Wayne LaPierre stepped onto the public stage last week and brashly offered a surefire remedy for this nation's rash of schoolhouse massacres."The only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Resurrection of Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/10/liberals-dewayne-wickham-naacp/1756801/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Benjamin Todd Jealous stepped on stage last week to receive one of the ideological left's most prestigious awards, he was greeted with thunderous applause from the assembled audience, a collection of this nation's most unrepentant liberals.Jealous came to the Nation Institute's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bachmann Plays Anti-American Gambit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-07-23/bachman-muslim-brotherhood-huma-abedin/56442042/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann is at it again. The three-term Minnesota Republican has spent much of her time in Congress questioning the patriotism of others. During the 2008 presidential campaign, she accused Barack Obama of being "anti-American," a charge she repeated during a 2010 anti-abortion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren Needs to Apologize]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-04/elizabeth-warren-native-american-scott-brown-senate/55384262/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a victory that has all the trappings of a political coronation, Elizabeth Warren emerged from Massachusetts' Democratic Party convention this weekend with enough support to avoid a primary battle for the right to seek the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Scott Brown.However, her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Flawed Education Pitch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-05-28/romney-gop-education-charter-schools-class-size/55250542/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In its planning, Mitt Romney's recent foray into a west Philadelphia charter school was the kind of well-timed incursion that has made Navy SEALs legendary. He went to that Democratic stronghold to talk about the nation's troubled public schools, the soft underbelly of President Obama's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Is Still Marginalizing Blacks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-11-22/gop-democrats-black-south/51337884/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>DeWayne Wickham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The lead to a recent Associated Press story about the declining influence of black lawmakers in the South reads like something written by the late Lee Atwater, the race-baiting former Republican Party chairman and GOP spin-doctor."(An) overwhelming allegiance to the Democratic Party has...]]></description>
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