The XX Factor : race card

What I'm Learning from Skip Gates' Arrest

Emily Bazelon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:32:00 GMT

That's a really upsetting litany of stories, Marjorie, about the cops accosting you and your relatives . The confluence of Skip Gates' arrest and the Obama presidency are making white people, at least some of us, take in these stories differently. We've...(read more)

Authentically Fake

Marjorie Valbrun — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:37:00 GMT

Dahlia, I also agree with you about Sarah Palin being a divider not a uniter. Over the last few days she has been going after Obama in racially coded language in her attempts to link him to '60s-era radical Bill Ayers. I find this dismaying and dangerous....(read more)

John's Race Card Question

Emily Bazelon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:33:00 GMT

Evidence today of the persistent nature of the significance of race in the campaign: The percentage of young people who say they're unwilling to vote for a black candidate is 22 percent, according to one poll, and not dropping. Get it together, 18- to...(read more)

Is Obama Playing the Race Card?

Emily Bazelon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:26:00 GMT

A guest post from Slate' s John Dickerson: "Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said this week. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's...(read more)

Ich Bin ein Womanist

Kim McLarin — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:36:00 GMT

Bonnie, thanks for your response. These are very complicated and delicate issues, which is why so often we'd all prefer to just sip our lattes and talk about something else. One problem is that we don't even have a common language for discussion. We can't...(read more)

The Whole Race Deck

Bonnie Goldstein — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:44:00 GMT

Welcome, Kim, and I’m glad you brought up Alice Walker's “womanist” position. Her Root essay last March, “Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave,” endorsing Barack Obama stayed with me a long time. Not just because I found Walker’s...(read more)

As Lavender Is to Purple

Kim McLarin — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:43:00 GMT

Rachael, I could not agree more. Hillary Clinton is far too smart a cookie (oops, is that sexist?) for me to believe her comments were but a sad, sad slip of the tongue. She knew exactly which signal flag she was waving toward the hills of West Virginia....(read more)

Withdrawing the Race Card

Emily Bazelon — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:06:00 GMT

Remember how Hillary said last week that Obama's support was weakening among "working, hardworking Americans, white Americans?" Not smart, some of us at Slate thought . Clinton may not have intended to , but her remark tiptoed up to the line of suggesting...(read more)

The Race Card

Emily Yoffe — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:23:00 GMT

However Obama's speech plays out, Hillary Clinton's No. 1 surrogate, Bill, has weighed in again on race. He said the idea that he has said anything racially insensitive during the campaign (particularly comparing Obama's win in South Carolina to Jesse...(read more)