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Clarence Page
Page is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist specializing in urban issues. He is based in Washington, D.C. E-mail: cptime@aol.comSubscribe to Clarence Page RSS Article Feed.
Recent Articles
- How ACORN Helped Its Enemies - September 27, 2009
- Never underestimate the power of a 20-year-old woman in hot pants. Just hook her up with an apple-cheeked young man dressed as a sort of preppy pimp, add a video camera...
- Obama Faces a Chilly Fall - September 2, 2009
- Watching President Barack Obama's poll numbers slide in recent weeks takes me back to the worst moments of the presidential campaign. I'm not thinking of Obama's...
- Obama's Henry Gates-gate - July 26, 2009
- I disagree with President Obama. I don't think the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., for "disorderly conduct" in his own...
- Obama Skips Thorny Abortion Details - May 20, 2009
- As I considered the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame University, I recalled a late Irish Catholic friend whose civil...
- Turning Denying Dads into Proud Papas - May 17, 2009
- It's the sort of story that had to happen sooner or later: A Detroit judge is sentencing delinquent dads to watch the "Maury" television show. If you're not a fan, that...
- Race Goals Are Easier, Not Better - April 19, 2009
- Here's a quick history quiz for you. Which nationally prominent leader said this? "Edicts of nondiscrimination are not enough. Justice demands that every citizen...
- North Korea Tests Obama - April 8, 2009
- Kim's regime is different. In defiance of a UN Security Council they launch a missile that they say is carrying a satellite over Japan. When it falls into the ocean way...
- Obama Wows a Worried World - April 5, 2009
- Obama wanted more commitments to economic stimulus, while other leaders wanted more regulation of our financial markets.European leaders in particularly don't want to...
- Cheerful Givers, Grumpy Receivers - February 25, 2009
- But members of Congress are luckier than governors. Republicans could vote against Obama's stimulus plan confident in the knowledge that the Democratic majority was...
- At Least 'Chimp' Cartoon Got Us Talking - February 22, 2009
- The drawing is a timely reference to Travis the chimp, an ape-gone-wild that was shot to death by Stamford, Conn., police earlier in the week after it mauled a friend of...
- Obama's an Optimist, But Not a 'Sap' - February 18, 2009
- Obama had invited the columnists -- including me -- on his first visit home to Chicago since he became president. (See my photos and more about Obama's airborne chat at...
- As Obama's Hopes Face Reality - January 21, 2009
- It was ironic of Abraham Lincoln to author an Emancipation Proclamation that only freed the slaves in the states that had broken away from the Union.It was ironic of...
- Bush's Lessons for Obama - January 18, 2009
- Ah, yes, maybe we can joke a little more easily about race, now that the country has elected a biracial American -- especially one who, while discussing his family's...
- Our Drug War Next Door - January 14, 2009
- The tragedy is etched in daily news headlines. The same day I arrived, two Mexican police offers were ambushed, shot to death while sitting in their patrol car. Just...
- A Senator Without a Seat -- Or Sponsor - January 11, 2009
- He is notable for having managed to commit few political sins, except maybe aggravated narcissism. The names of Burris' two children, Roland and Rolanda, are now...
- A Social Trauma for Obama: Youth Crime - January 7, 2009
- During the same period, murders by white youth actually decreased slightly. The FBI statistics on which the study is based don't count Hispanics separately from whites....
- Hiding Behind the Race Card - January 4, 2009
- Rush, a former leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, used to sound as troubled by that as other Democratic lawmakers did, until Blagojevich named Burris, a former...
- Obama vs. Machine Politics - December 17, 2008
- Using newly released Justice Department figures, USA Today determined that Illinois is not, in fact, the nation's most corrupt place by a long shot. Who is? The...
- Jackson Jr. Tangled in Blago's Net - December 14, 2008
- Fortunately for Obama, a tape recording of Blagojevich's frustration at the Obama camp's rebuff to his pay-for-play invitation makes the president-elect sound downright...
- Governor's Troubles, Not Obama's - December 10, 2008
- That's why I came to Chicago several decades ago. It was a great news town. It was a town with gangsters and hardball politics in a state where corruption often came...
- Gay Pride, Black Prejudice - December 7, 2008
- Besides, single-parenting has climbed so high in the past half-century, especially in black America, that I am delighted whenever anyone still wants to get married.But...
- Obama Takes Fire from the Left - December 3, 2008
- But now that Obama is in a position to bring change that he said we could believe in, he does not get a free pass from his base, especially the believers in...
- Obama's Blackberry Blues - November 30, 2008
- He wants to keep his BlackBerry.In an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters last week, he talked about the importance of breaking through the isolation faced by...
- Obama's Pop Culture Drama - November 26, 2008
- "Discussions in our development meetings include the zeitgeist and how it's changed in that last two weeks," Kevin Feige, president of production at Marvel Studios,...
- Obama Throws Osama Off His Game - November 23, 2008
- Al-Zawahiri compares Obama to Malcolm X, the assassinated black American Muslim leader who made the plantation reference to "house slaves" and "house Negroes" famous in...
- A Bomb Thrower vs. Obama Bashers - November 19, 2008
- Speaking in the church after the originally scheduled bookstore proved to be too small, the former leader of the radical Weather Underground was joking about how he...
- Obama's Private School Shoppping Goes Public - November 12, 2008
- The question of vouchers as an alternative to public schools crosses color lines, but it is particularly appropriate for the nation's first African American...
- Rev. Jackson's Tears Spoke Volumes - November 10, 2008
- Much was said about how Obama was opening a "post-racial" era, although "multiracial" is more appropriate. Race and racism have not evaporated. Nor has the need for our...
- Looking for the 'Real America' - October 26, 2008
- Really? Which part of America, I wondered, is the real America, according to Palin? Where can I get a passport? If I go there, will they take me in?"Home," Robert Frost...
- Generation Jones Looks for Attention - October 22, 2008
- But that's not saying enough. Bill Clinton, Al Gore or George W. Bush are all boomers, too. But they're old boomers compared to Palin and Obama, who were born after the...
- What Plumber Joe Doesn't Know - October 19, 2008
- McCain's woes were embodied in his biggest surprise of the evening: Joe the Plumber.That's Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, 34, who confronted Obama recently at a campaign...
- McCain's Campaign Against Himself - October 15, 2008
- That makes me downright proud to see the old familiar principled side of McCain rise to the challenge of tamping down some of the uglier sentiments that have erupted in...
- Red Meat Stains McCain - October 12, 2008
- That was long before the economy tanked and his poll numbers went into a slide behind Sen. Barack Obama's like the Dow Jones Industrial Average.And McCain's campaign...
- A Lame Rap Against Low-Income Buyers - October 8, 2008
- Before laws like CRA came along, banks "redlined" entire neighborhoods, denying prospective homebuyers, most of them minorities, conventional home loans. Thanks to CRA,...
- It Was Palin's Night to Avoid Losing - October 5, 2008
- But substance is not enough to win presidential debates that essentially are television shows, largely aimed at persuading still-undecided voters. Many of these voters...
- This Nice Guy May Just Finish First - October 1, 2008
- Then it dawned on me: Maybe Obama was pulling his punches. Maybe he was trying to pull off a debate team version of rope-a-dope, a boxing strategy made famous by...
- High Hopes Led to This Crisis - September 28, 2008
- Many did. The numbers of minority and other first-time homeowners climbed. The housing market prospered. Congress, the lending industry, the Clinton administration and...
- Obama vs.'Bubba' Vote - September 24, 2008
- Sad, but true. I hate to nickname the problem "Bubba." I used to have a beloved Alabama uncle named Bubba. I loved "Unca Bubba." He taught me how to milk a cow when I...
- Palin's Troubling Trooper Gate - September 21, 2008
- These questions are provoked by the way his campaign has been helping her to throw a cloak of silence over the Alaska investigation now known to the world as...
- Memo to Obama: Dumb it Down - September 17, 2008
- Do I sound condescending? Do I sound like I am talking down to Joe and Josephine SixPack out there in working class America? No way. I come from working class America. I...