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Toni Morrison Endorses Obama for President

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Jan 28, 12:39 PM EST Morrison Endorses Obama for President By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president" is backing Barack Obama to be the second. Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama's race - he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - but rather his personal gifts. Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator, Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement. Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate on the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama's vision...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).