Category: Politics
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Why Race Mattered in Barack Obama’s Re-election: Editorial and Poem (part 1) – by Aberjhani
Passersby in New York check out billboard announcing Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election. (Reuters photograph by Carlo Allegri) “Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.” –from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (Aberjhani) Despite the Associated Press’s recent gloomy poll on racial attitudes in the…
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Posted Perspectives on America’s 2012 Presidential Election (part 1 of 2) – Special Report by Aberjhani
President Barack Obama and NJ Gov. Chris Christie survey damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and comfort survivors. (Reuters photo by Larry Downing) Was it a matter of political irony or plain old-fashioned racism…
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Tricks and Treats of the 2012 Presidential Debates (part 1): Editorial and Poem – by Aberjhani
President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney greet their audience at first presidential debate. (Photo by: ZHANG JUN/XINHUA/ZUMA PRESS/MCT) “I really think that one of the profound decisions the American people have to make now is whether they want to be governed by a president, or a boss. And…
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Poetry Plus Journalism Equals What? A Reconciliation of Sorts – by Aberjhani
Cover of first edition of I MADE MY BOY OUT OF POETRY featuring original art by celebrated New Orleans and New York artist Gustave Blache III. Recently I found myself on the verge of crossing over from ambivalence into guilt due to the amount of time and creative energy devoted…
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