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Today, a man with an African father and a white mother – a man who would have been called a casta in Simon Bolivar’s day – is the President of the United States, having defeated a decorated war hero of classic Scotch-Irish origin even in the state of Virginia. That is something that would have seemed a fantastically remote possibility as recently as thirty years ago, when I first visited the American South. It is easy to forget that, as late as 1967, sixteen states still had laws prohibiting racial intermarriage. It was only with the Supreme Court judgment in the aptly named ‘Loving v. Virginia’ that legal prohibition of interracial marriage was ruled unconstitutional throughout the United States. Even then, Tennessee did not formally repeal the relevant article of its constitution until March 1978 and Mississippi put off doing so until December 1987. American racial attitude have changed profoundly since that time. a whole time-honoured complex of words and thoughts can no longer publicly be uttered. ~ Page 138 Excerpt "Civilization" - Author Niall Ferguson
“You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” he (Obama) said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I ‘m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. “You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia” ~ Page 126
~ Excerpt "Sweet Spot" ~ Paul Bloom
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