Now I understand the timing and locale for Obama’s summer vacations.
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Black intellectuals focus on condition of African-Americans Discussion sends mixed message to Clinton about race relations, his initiative
The Dallas Morning News - Sunday, August 31, 1997
Author: New York Times News Service
EDGARTOWN, Mass. - The former Black Panther wondered why her son, a college graduate, was working in a supermarket. A Supreme Court justice’s one-time accuser wondered why she saw so many Confederate flags in Oklahoma. And a law professor wondered how to keep people from withdrawing to islands - metaphorical ones - when faced with the subject of race.
These concerns were voiced within the white clapboard walls of the Old Whaling Church on Friday night as 10 of the United States’ foremost black intellectuals led a sometimes measured and sometimes passionate, humorous or prickly discussion over whether and how to hold a national conversation about race.
The participants included Kathleen Cleaver, the former Black Panther ; Anita Hill, whose testimony during the 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings of Clarence Thomas started a national debate over sexual harassment; and Patricia Williams, an author and law professor at Columbia University.
But the man who is trying to lead that conversation during the next year, President Clinton, did not attend. His aides said that he was concerned about disrupting both the event and his three-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.
“I’m not concerned that he’s not here,” professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School said. “I’m concerned if he’s not hearing. “ But if Mr. Clinton eventually listens to the tape of the evening’s debate that his aides said he would receive, he will hear a decidedly mixed message - about his race initiative, about the state of black-white relations, and about the economic and political condition of black Americans.
And that outcome clearly delighted the moderator, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of the Afro-American studies department at Harvard and director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, which organized the event, as well as similar ones in past years. Mr. Gates said that the three-hour discussion underscored the “multiplicity of opinion within one little section of the American mosaic. “ Martha’s Vineyard is the setting for the annual panels, which have dealt before with subjects such as affirmative action, in part because of the island’s history as an integrated resort, and in part because so many potential panelists unwind there. (In introducing Mr. Ogletree , Mr. Gates said, “He is also, I understand, a master fisherman in these waters. “) More than 400 people, including many celebrities, paid $50 to attend.
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Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Thursday, September 9, 2004
Author: Lynn Sweet
Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama is running two campaigns.
One you see.
One you don’t.
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While the vast majority of Obama’s campaign cash comes from Illinois, Obama has raised a significant amount of money — 24 percent of his cash — from out-of-state donations. Obama, for example, does not want you to know that last month he collected money at a cocktail fund-raiser in the town of Chilmark, on Martha’s Vineyard , the famous vacation island off Massachusetts’ Cape Cod. The trip seemed very worthwhile. Obama combined it with an appearance on a panel to discuss the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to desegregate schools in the country, moderated by Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree .
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Vernon Jordan, also
"Not all blacks stay in Oak Bluffs; Vernon Jordan lives about fifteen miles away, in Chilmark. "
Black and White on Martha’s Vineyard
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Obama supporter
John Bryan, the former chairman of Sara Lee, introduced Obama to Vernon Jordan, Democratic power broker in 2004. Jordan promptly staged a fundraiser for Obama at his Washington home---the first in that city[12].
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Ogletree one day earlier co-hosted a Democratic fundraiser – billed as "Voices for Obama" – at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs, where Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave the keynote address.
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Aug 2009
The White House says President Obama doesn't plan to attend a pair of Martha's Vineyard fundraisers Thursday night despite the fact he's on the small island for the first night of 10-day his family vacation.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is headlining the fundraisers for the Obama Victory Fund. Tickets to the fundraisers range in price from $100 to $1000.
Obama to Skip Martha's Vineyard Fundraiser with Wasserman-Schultz
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Obama's trip comes at a time when his hope of overhauling the nation's health care system hangs in the balance. Influential Republicans in Congress, such as Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have called for a more limited fix. Liberal groups such as MoveOn.org are trying to stop the White House from giving up on a "public option," a government-run health plan that would compete with those of private insurers.
In a sign that the debate is shadowing Obama even in liberal Massachusetts, a full-page ad in Friday's Vineyard Gazette greeted him with the warning: "Health care legislation without a public option is not health care reform." It was paid for by the Martha's Vineyard Ad-Hoc Coalition for Genuine Health Care Reform.