Key quote: "In the largely black precincts of those metropolises, radio broadcasts blast constant reminders to vote for Obama, field organizers swarm, and megastars including Jay-Z, Russell Simmons, and LeBron James have led massive rallies, working to reach not just the substantial portion of the black community who regularly come out to vote, but the younger people and others who have never before cast a ballot."
Key quote: "It's no coincidence the first black major-party nominee for president calls Illinois home. The state has sent more blacks to Congress than any other, in large part due to the chronic segregation of Chicago's housing."
Key Quote: "Mr. Harrison, a demographer who is black, says he expects to feel chills when Mr. Obama becomes the first black presidential candidate to lead a major party ticket. But as the Democratic convention gets under way, Mr. Harrison’s anticipation is tempered by uneasiness as he wonders: Will Mr. Obama’s success further the notion that the long struggle for racial equality has finally been won?"
Key Quote: "In the castle here, slaves force-marched from the African interior were held in dungeons until their passage through the “Door of No Return” onto the ships that would carry them to the New World."
Key quote: "Barack Obama's rise is driving a sometimes uncomfortable debate in the black community: What does it mean to be black in America?"
Key quote: "The campaign says mobilizing the African American vote nationwide, as never before, will be a major factor in winning on Nov. 4. "
Key quote: "Barack Obama’s top strategist said Friday that John McCain’s campaign manufactured a racial debate when it accused Obama of “playing the race card” the day before."
Key quote: "The McCain campaign seemed to issue a warning shot to the Obama campaign that it won't let Obama subtlely use the race card as a generic deflection. But in issuing the warning, the issue of race in general popped as the topic du jour of the day."
Key quote: " To hear some of Hillary Clinton's disappointed supporters tell it, half of America just told her to 'Iron my shirt.'
In fact, two guys did, at a Clinton rally in New Hampshire in January, in what seems to have been a prank to draw attention to their radio show.
This is not to say that sexist attitudes weren't part of the 2008 primary campaign, or that racism wasn't, either."
Key quote: "Democrat Barack Obama's race will complicate his White House bid, Americans say in both interviews and a poll showing that nearly a third of them acknowledge feeling racial prejudice."
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