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Oct. 21, 2008

A Candidate Who Could Bind Up Our Racial Wounds

Due to factors more intrinsic and unchangeable than policy differences, Obama's election would do more to heal our country's racial wounds than McCain's election would, writes Paul Stanton Kibel. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Paul Stanton Kibel

The 2008 presidential election presents two great opportunities for America. These are opportunities, however, that one of the candidates can seize and the other can't. This is due to factors more intrinsic and unchangeable than policy differences.

First, at home in recent decades America has worked to overcome its history on race. This effort encompasses not just our African-American history of slavery a...

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