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Journalist Bob Herbert: ‘No question’ Romney using coded language

Former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert said Wednesday night that there was “no question” Mitt Romney’s repeated use of the word “foreign” to describe President Barack Obama was about race. “Lee Atwater explained it,” Herbert remarked. “He said that in the early days of the southern strategy, you could…

There’s A Whole Racial Thing Here, But You Know What? Fuck It

Bob Herbert wrote a barnburner (!) of a column about the Skip Gates fiasco which makes two primary claims about racism in America. The first contention is that there are still hugely disparate outcomes in the criminal justice system depending on your color and the second is that we’re never…