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The entanglement of race, commerce, law, and freedom in today's

New York Times by op-ed contributor Grace Elizabeth Hale is honest,

thorough--and fascinating. It's as tasty as Atlanta's Dr. King being

slandered on the Senate floor by the demagogue, North Carolina

senator, Jesse Helms for associating with known Communists (Helm's

filibuster was cut off by Senate pro tempore, South Carolina StromThurmond!). Dr. King, the erstwhile communist, was embraced as a

Republican in last year's twitter feeds!

Dr. King moved from being a communist to being

embraced as a Republican (both overactive

exaggerations!) while the current President, Barack

Obama, once labeled a socialist, is now--a week after

being sworn in and winning with 62.5 million votes

many states tried to openly suppress--being called a

dictator who is thinking of a political conquest. Conquest? The

Speaker of the House publicly makes eliminating the legal right of

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women to choose their path of reproduction his number one priority

as record numbers of Americans suffer from being out of work!

"Race" struggled with defining

humanity for slaves, than freedom

and citizenship. The first civil rights

struggle lost to segregation; race

demanded a social and economic

code of place and class. Race

engaged civil rights again, and

fought the idea of contentment with

status quo and the limits on

opportunity.

he NAACP law suit

brought against New York City seeks to overturn the Mayor-supported limits on sofa drink sizes as harmful to small

minority retail business. The lawsuit is also potentially benefits Coca-

Cola, a major corporate supporter of the NACCP. With the suit and

with the President's reelection and agenda, and with Tim Scott's (R-

SC) appointment to the Senate, "race" enters a new phrase: it no

longer reflects a conversation mainly about bias or discrimination--or

even opportunity. Now the discussions about race are about

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ower, and new alliances that support, leverage, or oppose that

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Race as a concept as always been defined by money and power, sometimes

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