http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/editorials/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_op_26_shapiro.eabd.html Dean's a lily-white guy from a lily-white state. If he can't win in lily-white Iowa (2.1 percent black), how can Dean expect to win in the far more crucial Southern primaries?
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Howard Dean has a major race problem on his hands. He is from the benevolent white liberal school of thought: Back affirmative action and anti-racism bills, but keep those blacks out of my face. For Howard Dean, blacks and browns are interesting to watch as a social experiment. Literally.
In college, he specifically requested a black roommate, wanting to learn what black people were.
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Dean's favorite movie? The Warren Beatty-Halle Berry vehicle "Bulworth," about white California Democratic U.S. Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth running for his final Senate term. He decides to stop campaigning on a conservative platform and begins "speaking the truth" on social issues, especially regarding race. He "gets down" with the "brothas," learns to rap, smokes marijuana and makes out with gangsta Halle Berry.