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Hale Sisters at the DNC

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
By WORD Special Correspondant Kisha Allison

After leaving the Colorado Convention Center August  26, I headed to the Pepsi Center for Hillary Clinton’s prime time speech. The excitement started to build. What would I see? Would there be an uprising from Clinton supporters? Maybe they would lash out during her speech and demand that Obama select her as a Vice President. All of these thoughts and more started poured into my head. I was anticipating the story or blog that I would write and literally, it was right in front of my nose.

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The B Word at the Democratic National Convention

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
By Kisha Allison, WORD Special Correspondent.

Black Caucus. African-American Caucus. What exactly did I attend this afternoon of August 25, the first day of the convention? When I registered this morning, the sign at the caucus table read “African-American Caucus.” But when I finally reached the Wells Fargo Theatre where it was held, the sign read “Black Caucus.”
So which is it?

The truth is the term African-American leaves out many brothers and sisters of the African Diaspora. What about the Jamaicans, Trinis, Bajans and other Afro-Caribbean islands? The Guyanese and Brazilians are also left out. Did we forget about their substantial Black populations? Why do we struggle between the two terms?

For the sake of political correctness?

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