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Rich Benjamin is author of Searching for “Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America,” and senior fellow at Demos. Follow him on Twitter at @RichBenjaminUSA.

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Release the officer’s name: It’s time to stop shielding Michael Brown’s killer

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President Barack Obama walks from the podium after the daily White House briefing, July 19, 2013. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Obama’s safe, overrated and airy speech

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Protesters hold an image of Trayvon Martin while marching in the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles, California, following the George Zimmerman verdict (Reuters/Jason Redmond)

Zimmerman verdict: A green light for racist vigilantes

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George Zimmerman, Paula Deen (AP/Joe Burbank/Stephen Morton)

So much for “post-racial” America

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Barack Obama gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, May 19, 2013. (Reuters/Jason Reed)

Barack Obama: Incidental black man?

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Members of the New York City Council stand together on the steps of City Hall in New York, March 28, 2012 during a news conference to call for justice in the February 26 killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

There will be more Trayvons

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Whites-only GOP meets its demographic destiny

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Still running from Rodney King

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