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  • Sections of Dorfman's "Disavowal" engage explicitly with the topic of race: voice-overs about chosen and unchosen racial identity, an argument between dancers about racial guilt.

    The New Yorker 2009

  • There Obama quotes from the brochure of Reverend Wright's church — a passage entitled “A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.”

    Kristol Blue Delusion - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • ‘A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness,’ the heading read.

    Why Obama’s Church Matters 2008

  • ‘A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness,’ the heading read.

    ER Crisis: WSJ Misses Point, Blog Comments Don’t 2008

  • ‘A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness,’ the heading read.

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Why Obama’s Church Matters 2008

  • The church proclaims its commitment to a ‘Black Value System’ which, apart from a commitment to Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System includes the Disavowal of the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness’ on the basis that those who are not middle-class are separated from other black people by * Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.

    Obama explains « BuzzMachine 2008

  • But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity's guiding principles -- what the church calls the "Black Value System" -- included a "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness. '"

    Cyber-Slapp 2008

  • The church proclaims its commitment to a ‘Black Value System’ which, apart from a commitment to Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System includes the Disavowal of the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness’ on the basis that those who are not middle-class are separated from other black people by * Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them ...

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The church proclaims its commitment to a ‘Black Value System’ which, apart from a commitment to Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System includes the Disavowal of the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness’ on the basis that those who are not middle-class are separated from other black people by * Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.

    The Obamanable churchman 2008

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