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Black History Month Commemoration |
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The Roosevelt Institution is perhaps the only think-tank ever to be launched with a joke about butter. And not even a good joke at that. But all jokes aside, when Quinn Wilhelmi, Director of the Development Committee and overall second-in-command, told us on February
8th that “the butter is in our pockets,”
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Do you know why February is designated
as Black History Month? In 1926 Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a high school teacher who earned his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, was disappointed by the general absence of African-Americans in the history books.
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Among the hate-filled and bitterly ignorant email I received following President Bush’s decisive victory in November, one email seems to stand out. It contained two images of the United States. It depicted the electoral-college breakdown of the recent election superimposed over a map of the Civil-War era confederate states. The email sought to imply that there is a tie between the Republican Party and slaveholders in the 1800s. |
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