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Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery

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Barack Obama has had the audacity to declare himself the heir and embodiment of the lifework of Martin Luther King. Can this declaration of a whole new principle of universal slavery really be what King was dreaming of? Is this the vision he saw on the other side of the mountain? Or is not the nightmarish inversion of the ideal of a better, more just, more humane world that so many have died for, in so many places, down through the centuries?

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Hang them all. by B. Ross Ashley on Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:38:32 AM
It Isn't Against the Law by Michael Fairfax on Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:20:32 PM
perfect-- corporations are persons but people are not by martinweiss on Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:58:50 PM
Great article, Chris! It should be clear that the U.S. by Mark Adams on Sunday, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:48:10 PM