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<title><![CDATA[E.J. Graff - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23418.xml</link><description><![CDATA[E.J. Graff]]></description><category domain="23418">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin, U.S. Racism and Our Black Son]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/07/the_zimmerman_verdict_forced_me_a_white_mother_me_talk_to_my_black_son_about.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Graff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re white. He&rsquo;s African-American. In the past, when we&rsquo;ve tried talking with him about what&rsquo;s wrong with the N-word&mdash;a word so coolly slung in his favorite songs&mdash;he's told us that &ldquo;no one cares&rdquo; about that race stuff any more. He can think...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Handicapping the Marriage Initiatives]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/handicapping-marriage-equality-initiatives</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Graff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Login or RegisterDonate        E.J. Graff  November 6, 2012Even if we lose all four ballot battles today, we're winning the war.This is the tenth in the Prospect's series on the 174 measures on state ballots this year.Marriage equality is up for vote in four states. In three states,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Gay-Rights Movement Won]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/how-gay-rights-movement-won</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Graff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, being gay put you beyond the social pale. You could be savagely beaten, kicked out of public spaces and private clubs, arrested, fired, expelled from your family, and scorned as a pariah. Today, lesbians and gay men are all but equal, with full marriage rights in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren: Yes She Can?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/167197/elizabeth-warren-yes-she-can</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Graff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a grim, sleety day in Chicopee, a gritty postindustrial town in western Massachusetts, where paint flakes off worn-out bridges and boarded-up factories. At a community relations luncheon, kind security guards were opening back doors and holding out umbrellas for the few willing to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Son, You Could Be Trayvon]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/you-could-be-trayvon</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Graff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m furious that Trayvon Martin is getting blamed for his own murder. If smoking pot in high school were an executable offense, as the Miami Herald seems to suggest, we would cut the U.S. population by about a third. Add tardiness to the list&mdash;again, as the Miami Herald seems...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walking While Black]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/walking-while-black</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Graff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m sick to my stomach about the Trayvon Martin shooting that Jamelle Bouie mentioned here yesterday.Over the weekend, Charles Blow at The New York Times (once again, my favorite columnist) wrote:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Assault on Women's Health]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/not-fluke</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Graff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My heart broke over the weekend when I read, over at DailyKos, "I've spent the past 2 days trying to convince my 16 y/o she is not a 'slut.'" (Thanks to Garance Franke-Ruta for the pointer.) Until I read that article, I have been focusing my attention on the good news: The assault on...]]></description>
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