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Obama tells blacks they must take responsibility
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Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, was accused by civil rights leader Jesse Jackson last week of " talking down to blacks. (article 5)
At this year's NAACP convention, the nation's oldest civil rights forum, there is an energy not felt in decades. (article 2)
As word of the incident swept across the Internet and 24-hour cable news channels, Jackson tried damage control, apologized to Obama over the phone and on the airwaves. (article 6)
Within hours, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. an Illinois Democrat and cochairman of Obama's national campaign, issued a statement rebuking his father for " his ugly rhetoric.. (article 6)
The dust-up "is the classic battle between the old and new politics" among African-Americans, said Kerry Haynie, a Duke University political science professor who specializes in race and politics. (article 6)
Julian Bond said Obama's candidacy doesn't " herald a post-civil rights America, any more than his victory in November will mean that race as an issue has been vanquished in America. (article 1)
Obama plans to address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's convention Monday night, and Republican presidential candidate John McCain plans to speak Wednesday. (article 1)
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Source articles
- NAACP head: Obama win won't solve racial injustice (Washington Post, 07/12/2008, 455 words)
- ABC News: Obama's Challenge for the NAACP (ABCNews, 07/13/2008, 377 words)
- Obama repeats message on black responsibility (msnbc.msn.com, 07/14/2008, 1023 words)
- Obama tells NAACP blacks must take responsibility (Washington Post, 07/12/2008, 580 words)
- Obama tells blacks they must take responsibility (Washington Post, 07/14/2008, 474 words)
- A clash of generations in black community (boston.com, 07/13/2008, 534 words)
- US candidates make Latino appeals (BBC News, 07/15/2008, 164 words)
- CINCINNATI - Sen. Barack Obama vowed today to figh... (baltimoresun.com, 07/14/2008, 162 words)
- Letters to the editor (L.A. Times, 07/14/2008, 390 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > HANNITY & COLMES (FOX News, 07/14/2008, 938 words)
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