Jesse Jackson’s personal pain is America’s growing pain. With the very real possibility than an African-American will be the country’s next president, the nation is grappling for a new normal in race relations — one that doesn’t offer so prominent a place for the angry and confrontational approach of Jackson and other civil rights leaders who came of age in a different time.
The country may also simply be tiring of Jackson who, despite the strengths he brought to the cause of civil rights, has shown himself to be prejudiced, self-pitying and hypocritical. The man who urged the permanent retirement of the N-word used it, himself, last week in criticizing Obama’s focus on

By Amanda at 8:42 pm Today, CNN’s John Blake has an article titled, “Could an Obama presidency hurt black Americans?” In the piece, Blake notes that some

By John Blake For many, Sen. Barack Obama is an agent of change but some critics say he could make race relations worse. That's the slogan on a popular