https://freerepublic.com/tag/racismcharges/ en-us Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:25:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3406117/posts <p>Call it the curse of high expectations. When Barack Obama took office, the world swooned, America exhaled and pundits declared an end to centuries of racial division.</p> <p>Gazing at the 1.5m people who braved the cold to witness Mr Obama’s inauguration, Steven Spielberg said it would have been impossible to stage for a movie. That was then. Today America’s first non-white president is winding down at the nation’s tensest moment of racial polarisation in decades. Thanks to Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan is back in the headlines. I doubt Mr Trump will succeed Mr Obama as president but he has injected poison into the bloodstream. For all Mr Obama’s hopes, fear is the dominant currency.</p> Financial Times UK https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3406117/posts#comment Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:25:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494288/posts Conservative Links Crime Rate and Abortion of Black Babies A conservative talk show host, William Bennett served in the Reagan administration as education secretary. WASHINGTON (Sept. 29) - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats on Thursday demanded that former Education Secretary William Bennett apologize for remarks on his radio program linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.Bennett responded that the comments, made Wednesday on his "Morning in America" show, had been mischaracterized and that his point was that the idea of supporting abortion to reduce crime was "morally reprehensible." The author of "The Book of... BlackVoices https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494288/posts#comment Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:21:21 GMT