Mary Sanchez
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Note to GOP: Get serious about women candidates
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1076 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML The burning question of the recent presidential campaign, as cynics put it, was this: "Is the U.S. more sexist or racist?" Sexism won, but only by a bobby pin. Of course that's a fairly simplistic reading of the outcome. The African-American man was... Nov/14/2008 12:39 PM |
The world celebrates a victory
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1094 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Green with envy I was, upon receiving the text message a friend sent me from an exclusive reserved section during Barack Obama's post-election gathering at Chicago's Grant Park. But an e-mail from a different friend the next morning, which began... Nov/7/2008 3:11 PM |
Where is George Bailey when you need him?
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (954 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML A movie scene keeps playing in my head. Jimmy Stewart is delivering lines from the Christmas classic, "It's a Wonderful Life." It's the run on the bank scene. Stewart, playing George Bailey, is frantically attempting to calm the nerves of depositors at... Oct/31/2008 6:21 PM |
Will community organizing spell comeuppance for McCain?
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1072 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Come Nov. 5, John McCain supporters might just rue the day they made all those wisecracks about community organizers. Approaches central to community organizing - building grassroots support, harnessing volunteer labor, directing coalitions toward one.. Oct/24/2008 8:00 AM |
Learning from the bracero experience
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1098 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Their images share the haunting starkness of prints from the Great Depression. Captured in black and white, the faces of the braceros appear weary with the burdens of their day: dusty landscapes of endless fields of cotton and sugar beets to tend,... Oct/17/2008 12:03 PM |
The minority mortgage libel
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1075 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML In the great search for somebody to blame for the nation's economic meltdown, an easy scapegoat is emerging. Or rather, make that a few million easy scapegoats. By golly, it's those low-income minorities! Those people who never should have qualified... Oct/10/2008 2:16 PM |
The change that has already happened
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1043 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML So Michelle Obama came to Kansas City the other day, speaking on a stage erected in the 18th and Vine district of the city, legendary for its role in African-American culture. Her speech to a cheering, largely African-American crowd of thousands was... Oct/3/2008 10:57 AM |
We're ready to sacrifice, but not to be suckers
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1109 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML In years past, people would say economic times like these called for "buckling down." That is, facing difficult responsibilities. Making sacrifices, with the faith that doing so would get us through a tough spot. "Buckle down" was a phrase I heard a lot.. Sep/26/2008 11:19 AM |
Identity politics has derailed us
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1055 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML You remember critical thinking, don't you? That skill you were supposed to pick up in civics class? It's conspicuously absent from political discourse these days. Instead, we get the "you hate America" kind of talk. Accusations that the other guy - or... Sep/19/2008 5:47 PM |
Palin gloriously, fabulously unfit for duty
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC: (1163 words) Mary Sanchez Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Dare to criticize Sarah Palin and you'll find yourself back in high school, with all the petty taunts. "You're just jealous!" is the refrain filling my e-mail and voice mail in-boxes, and no doubt other female skeptics face a similar barrage. As if... Sep/12/2008 5:41 PM |
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