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3P-037 Horatio Alger and the Half-Blood President

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Regular Show

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Tereza Coraggio Contact Contributor

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July 27, 2009, 3:02 p.m.

Summary: Asks if the inclusion of minorities at high levels of
government - Barack Obama, Condaleeza Rice, Sonia Sotomayor - indicates greater equality for blacks and Latinos in domestic and foreign policy. Cites statistics on black men in prison vs. college in
1980 and 2000. Reviews Sotomayor's voting record on immigrants and
race claims.

Credits: Produced and Hosted by Tereza Coraggio

Production and Editing by Skidmark Bob
http://popdefectradio.blogspot.com/

Please contact Tereza with comments or to let her know what station is airing this show.
tereza@thirdparadigm.org

Transcript, includes music videos, photos and links:
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Music: Mogwai, The Police, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Peter Gabriel, Snow Patrol

Notes: Reads the poems Query by Jean Burden and Utopia by Wislawa Szymborska to the music of Local Authority by Mogwai. Quotes Derrick Jensen on the Horatio Alger myth. Reviews the book The Post-American World by Fareed Zekaria, challenging his facts, market-driven bias,
and conclusions. Plays the songs Murder by Numbers by The Police, When Your Mind's Made Up by Hansard and Irglova, and Biko by Peter Gabriel.

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Length (hh:mm:ss): 00:29:37

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Date Recorded: July 26, 2009

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