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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Freakonomics Radio

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Hope as a Political Tool Is Folly

Obama's hope speech was the latest in a long line of such speeches. The president has been seen as an accommodationist by many black leaders. But he may have had to accept that white supremacy cannot be appeased or bargained with. America is born in it and genetically coted it, no amount of hoping can redress that reality....

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