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	<title>David Dante Troutt</title>
	
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		<title>Thank You, Michael</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=66</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appreciation by David Dante Troutt









Recently, my daughter turned seven, and a week later I realized I was late with a very specific gift. It had occurred to me that she was ready for the Jackson Five, and I hurried to buy her the perfect CD of her own. For most of the days since, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Divide that United</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=61</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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As this election draws to a close, a very strange and wonderful thing is happening with hardly a word said about it: Racism is losing.  To celebrate this fact must feel like assuming an Obama victory, because few of us do it openly.  Well, it’s time we do.
John McCain was once an honorable man, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s Not Your Friend?  The Sarah Palin Narratives</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=56</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dante Troutt</dc:creator>
		
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[Please see the blog epilogue at the end of this essay]

 If Sarah Palin’s sudden and remarkable popularity that boosted John McCain’s presidential hopes continues for more than another week, it will be because of the power of narratives to alter reality and affirm voter preferences. Narratives are no small thing—merely the way we tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judging the Elitist by Its Cover:  The New Yorker Revealed</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dante Troutt</dc:creator>
		
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Just before the New Yorker cover came out depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as black power/Muslim terrorists, I was telling someone how useless the term “elitist” was.  It was one of several pejorative labels tossed recently at Barack, and it was pure epithet disguised as a descriptor.  But of what?  It describes nothing.  It only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Black Hope</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dante Troutt</dc:creator>
		
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The sun had barely risen on Barack Obama’s first full day as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president of the United States when my brother-in-law stood alone in front of a Seattle Starbucks, waiting for it to open, and soon encountered the old racial microaggressions.  He is black.  Within a few minutes, several white Seattleites, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Right to Be So Wrong: Barack Obama and the Essential Surprise</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=15</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dante Troutt</dc:creator>
		
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Sometimes there’s nothing more  satisfying than being completely wrong.
The good white folks of Indiana made sure of this in last week’s primary, just when Barack Obama’s candidacy was supposed to hinge on the “coalition” of working-class white voters Hillary Clinton had accumulated in Pennsylvania.  Pennsylvania’s “bitter” whites gave Clinton renewed hope by dashing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deficient Differences: How Barack Obama Deals with a Loss in the Family</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=13</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dante Troutt</dc:creator>
		
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Barack Obama’s emphatic denunciation of his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, for a series of comments the reverend made to news outlets last week is far more than politics.  Rev. Wright reveled in a bewildering litany of racial differences.  He repeated his most charged political beliefs and characterized this tempest in the racial trope of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Country for Old (Black) Men</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=11</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Until his pastor’s most incendiary soundbites recirculated on the web, Barack Obama had managed to be the “post-racial,” “post-partisan” candidate to all America, if not the most beautiful, an unimposing buddy to white men, an attraction to women across racial and ethnic lines.  But Rev. Wright’s selected sermons suddenly threatened all of that just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater of the Patently Absurd or “Bitch Is the New Black”</title>
		<link>http://daviddantetroutt.com/blog/?p=5</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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“The knock on the Clintons—the candidacy as well as the campaign—has always been that they would say anything to get elected and exploit divisions rather than build bridges.  Both of those traits were on fatalistic display when Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton fundraiser, recently asserted that Barack Obama is lucky to be a black man or [...]]]></description>
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