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Newsweek, June, 2008
“I mean, ‘whitey’? That’s something that George Jefferson would say.”
Potential First Lady Michelle Obama, on unsubstantiated rumors circulating on the Web that she had once used the slur in a speech
“The balance is zero.”
American Red Cross chief development officer Jeffrey Towers, announcing that the organization ’ s disaster-relief fund is totally depleted
“I felt like I was discriminated against by the very person who was supposed to be bringing this change.”
Law student Hebba Aref, after volunteers at a Detroit rally for Sen. Barack Obama barred her from sitting in camera view during his speech because she was wearing a headscarf. Obama later called Aref to apologize.
“We hope to see a bluer sky.”
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