Jack L. Werner, insurance guy, says he would like to see “a reasoned debate about how to live up to our ideals and promises, a debate that doesn’t degenerate into an unproductive, holier-than-thou yelling match.” Too late, and he needs to check on some of the things coming out of the mouths of his fellow […]
Sally Kern
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Kern: ‘I am not a racist’
Kern has come under fire in the past after making controversial comments about the gay community, and the latest comments came this week during legislative debate about a bill that will send a constitutional amendment eliminating state affirmative action programs to voters. She claimed much of what she said had been misconstrued and her words […]
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Is Sally Kern an aberration?
The first of many unsettling racist encounters as I traveled across Oklahoma was in a diner where a voter told me that “Obama should be taken out before it is too late.” In 2009, after the president was elected, colleagues and I saw a Tea Party protester at a rally outside the state Capitol with […]