http://speechification.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://speechification.com/2008/09/13/barack-obama-black-in-the-us-mixed-race-in-france/ http://speechification.com/2008/09/13/barack-obama-black-in-the-us-mixed-race-in-france/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:48:24 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://speechification.com/?p=347 A short feature from Radio France International's English service. It went out in August, just after Barack Obama's nomination. We learn that French people think of Barack Obama (correctly) as mixed-race and not black. But we also learn that as they've got to know Obama they've started to call him 'black' in response to his presentation in the US media (MP3).

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