Cool Like Obama

This is an article written by Dr. Stephane Dunn our speaker for the WEB DuBois Lecture on Thursday, november 13, 2008. I found it an interesting article, check it out.


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Cool Like Obama

By Stephane Dunn November 6, 2008 4:11 pm

The emails, surprisingly, began to flow in shortly after midnight and President-elect Barack Obama’s speech at Grant Park. I had told my students at Morehouse College that we would have an electronic class in lieu of our Wednesday classes. They would have to email me their reactions to our historic election by midnight Wednesday (within twenty-four hours after Tuesdays election night) come what may.

I gave them one mandate: Keep it real.

In that first wave of emails, one steady refrain stood out-I'm proud to be a
black man.

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