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In his first big speech on race since winning the White House, President Obama has exhorted young blacks to aspire to be more than basketballers and rap music stars.
In a historic address, America’s first black president told the country’s oldest civil rights group, celebrating its 100th anniversary, that it was time for “a new mindset” that did not internalise a sense of limitation.
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White House Says Obama 'Regrets' The 'Obsession' Over His Comments
Jul 22nd, 2009 - ABC News
The White House today said that President Obama "regrets" the furor his remarks on the arrest of his friend Henry Louis Gates Jr. have caused, as the lawyer for the cop...
Obama's critics launch the birth of a nutty nation
Jul 22nd, 2009 - NY Daily News
The curious cult of so-called "birthers," those conspiracy theorists who believe President Obama wasn't born an American citizen, making him ineligible to serve in the White House, first struck me as a political joke. I've stopped laughing...
Obama: Police 'acted stupidly' in Harvard arrest
Jul 22nd, 2009 - CNN
(CNN) -- President Obama said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man's home. "I don't know...
Obama: Police acted "stupidly" arresting black scholar
Jul 22nd, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday police had acted "stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard University scholar at his own home, weighing in on escalating debate over the treatment of minorities by U.S...
Obama's Health Care Push Facing a Stall
Jul 22nd, 2009 - ABC News
President Obama will take his health care push to prime time tonight in a White House news conference, where he is expected to talk about the need to control costs in a health care bill that won't add to the deficit.




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