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The London - and Obama - effect: back to being black

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I'M black again. I was black in Mississippi in the 1970s but sometime
in the 1980s I became African-American, with a brief pause at
Afro-American. Someone, I think it was Jesse Jackson, in the days when
he had that kind of clout, managed to convince America that I preferred
being African-American. I don't.

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KA Dilday

<p>KA Dilday worked on the&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;opinion page until autumn 2005, when she began a writing fellowship with the Institute of Current World Affairs. During the period of the f

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