Posted on July 26, 2010
You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing
Maureen Dowd, New York Times, July 24, 2010
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{snip} Obama lacks advisers who are descended from the central African-American experience, ones who understand “the slave thing,” as a top black Democrat dryly puts it.
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The West Wing white guys {snip} weren’t familiar enough with civil rights history to recognize the name Sherrod. {snip}
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