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<title><![CDATA[John Blake - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29919.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Blake]]></description><category domain="29919">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Use 'Verbal Jiu-Jitsu' To Twist Liberals' Language]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/politics/conservatives-verbal-combat-blake-cec/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two frontrunners for the White House in 2024 are tied in a hypothetical rematch. Congress is paralyzed. Every big election seems to be decided by razor-thin margins.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s Missing From Today&rsquo;s TV Shows That Deal With Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/16/entertainment/black-tv-series-blake-cec/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shag carpeting. Eight-track tapes. Missing an important phone call because you weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t home to hear the phone ring.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Predictions About Christianity's Decline in U.S. Premature?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/08/us/christianity-decline-easter-blake-cec/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cross, and the empty tomb. Both Christian symbols are bookends to the Easter story. One symbolizes the tragic execution of Jesus while the other represents the Christian belief in his resurrection, and the claim that death does not have the final word on him or his followers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When White People Engage In 'Digital Blackface']]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/26/us/digital-blackface-social-media-explainer-blake-cec/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Sweet Brown'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Ain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t nobody got time for that!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teddy Roosevelt's 'Ominous' Lesson for Trump, GOP in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/politics/trump-teddy-roosevelt-parallels-blake-cec/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He was a former Republican president with a mammoth ego, a sense of entitlement and simmering resentments. Critics called him mentally unstable and a racist, and some even noted his small hands.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Rogan's Use of the N-word Another January 6 Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/us/joe-rogan-n-word-blake-cec/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, a celebrity caught using a racial slur would see their career destroyed. But Spotify is sticking by Joe Rogan, and country singer Morgan Wallen seems more popular than ever. We've crossed a dangerous line in this country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing's More Frightening in America Than an Angry White Man]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/20/us/angry-white-men-trials-blake-cec/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Brute. The Buck. And, of course, the Thug. Those are just some of the names for a racial stereotype that has haunted the collective imagination of White America since the nation's inception.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Never Underestimate White Supremacy's Ability to Adapt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/us/census-browning-of-america-myth-blake/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[White people are projected to become a minority in the US by 2045, but that by itself won't make the country more racially tolerant. Never underestimate White supremacy's ability to adapt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Poses a Question That We Still Cannot Answer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/politics/obama-poses-a-question-that-we-still-cannot-answer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Between his 60th birthday and a new HBO series about his presidency, President Obama is back in the news. But given our toxic partisan politics, it's worth asking: Will we ever believe a leader who talks about hope and change again?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems May Repeat a Voting Rights Blunder That Led to Jim Crow]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/01/politics/voting-rights-blunder-democrats-blake/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden is following a script that once doomed Black voters -- and the party they supported -- by not going all out to protect voting rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In His First 100 Days, Biden Dethroned the Welfare Queen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/16/politics/biden-welfare-queen-blake/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's one of the most toxic and enduring racist myths in American political history. But in awarding cash payments to millions of working people of color, President Biden has largely defused this line of attack.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How an Online Mob Falsely Painted Chipotle Employee as Racist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/false-racism-internet-mob-chipotle-video/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Chipotle employee was scorned online for her role in what some Twitter users decided was a racist incident. Then internet sleuths discovered the full story.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Lord of the Flies' Comes to Baltimore]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/02/us/lord-of-the-flies-baltimore/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Blake</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He was a quiet man who once stood watch on his front porch, just three blocks away from where a riot erupted in West Baltimore this week.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We called him "Mr. Shields" because no one dared use his first name. He'd step onto his porch at night in plaid shorts and black knit dress socks to...]]></description>
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