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Denton Record-Chronicle
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Obama says racism ‘not cured,’ makes point with epithet
“Racism, we are not cured of
it,” Obama said. ‘And it’s not just a
matter of it not being polite to say
nigger in public. That’s not the
measure of whether racism still
exists or not. It’s not just a matter
of overt discrimination. Societies
don’t, overnight, completely erase
everything that happened 200 to
300 years prior.”
Obama’s remarks came dur-
ing an interview out Monday with
comedian Marc Maron for his
popular podcast, where coarse
language is often part of the dis-
cussion. The president uttering a
racial slur aloud stirred controver-
sy, especially on social media, and
White House spokesman Josh
Earnest said later Monday that
wasn’t surprising.
Obama didn’t plan in ad-
vance to use the word to be pro-
vocative, Earnest said, but was
simply making a point during a
casual, free-flowing interview.
He said he didn’t recall ever
hearing the president say the ra-
cial slur aloud before, but noted
that it did appear in his book,
Dreams from My Father.
The White House on Mon-
day said Obama, would travel to
Charleston on Friday to deliver
the eulogy for the Rev. Clementa
Pinckney, the pastor of the
Emanuel AME Church and one
of the victims of last week’s
shooting. First lady Michelle
Obama and Vice President Joe
Biden also plan to attend. The
Obamas knew the slain pastor,
who also was a state senator and
an early Obama supporter in the
2008 presidential campaign.
In the interview, Obama said
while attitudes about race have
improved significantly since he
was bom to a white mother and
black father, the “legacy of slav-
ery, Jim Crow, discrimination in
almost every institution of our
lives, that casts a long shadow
and that’s still part of our DNA
that’s passed on.”
Obama also expressed frus-
tration that “the grip of the NRA
on Congress is extremely strong”
and prevented gun control from
advancing in Congress after 20
children and six educators were
massacred in a Connecticut ele-
mentary school in 2012.
“I will tell you, right after
Sandy Hook, Newtown, when
20 6-year-olds are gunned
down, and Congress literally
does nothing — yes, that’s the
closest I came to feeling disgust-
ed,” he said. “I was pretty dis-
gusted.”
He said it’s important to re-
spect that hunting and sports-
manship are important to a lot
of gun-owning Americans. “The
question is just is there a way of
accommodating that legitimate
set of traditions with some com-
mon-sense stuff that prevents a
21-year-old who is angry about
something or confused about
something, or is racist, or is de-
ranged from going into a gun
store and suddenly is packing,
and can do enormous harm,”
Obama said in a reference to
suspect Dylann Storm Roof,
whose purported 2,500-word
hate-filled manifesto talked
about white supremacy.
By Nedra Pickier
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
dent Barack Obama says the his-
tory of slavery and segregation is
“still part of our DNA” in the
United States, even if racial epi-
thets no longer show up in polite
conversation. He uttered the N-
word in making his point.
In an interview, Obama
talked about the debates over
race and guns that have erupted
after the arrest of a white man in
the racially motivated shooting
deaths of nine black church
members in Charleston, South
Carolina.
Presi-
S.C. governor alters course on Confederate flag
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
Doctors propose new
gauge for cancer drugs
Winthrop University found 42
percent of South Carolina resi-
dents strongly believed the flag
should stay, while only 26 per-
cent strongly believed it should
be removed.
But South Carolina’s popula-
tion is slowly becoming more di-
verse, more educated, wealthier
and more exposed to people
from outside the state. And the
pollster, Scott Huffman, predicts
that his August 2015 survey will
show that people who didn’t
have strong feelings before “will
have flipped and now prefer it to
come down.”
Haley acknowledged there
are very different views about
what it symbolizes.
“For many people in our
state, the flag stands for tradi-
tions that are noble,” she said.
“The hate-filled murderer who
massacred our brothers and sis-
ters in Charleston has a sick and
twisted view of the flag. In no
way does he reflect the people in
our state who respect, and in
many ways, revere it.”
For many others, “the flag is a
deeply offensive symbol of abru-
tally oppressive past,” she said.
South Carolina can survive
and thrive “while still being
home to both of those view-
By Seanna Adcox,
Jeffrey Collins and Meg Kinnard
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. -
South Carolina’s governor de-
clared Monday that the Confed-
erate flag should be removed
from the Statehouse grounds as
she acknowledged that its use as
a symbol of hatred by the man
accused of killing nine black
church members has made it
too divisive to display in such a
public space.
Gov. Nikki Haley’s about-
face comes just days after au-
thorities charged Dylann Storm
Roof, 21, with murder. The white
man appeared in photos waving
Confederate flags and burning
or desecrating U.S. flags, and
purportedly wrote of fomenting
racial violence. Survivors told
police he hurled racial insults
during the attack.
“The murderer now locked
up in Charleston said he hoped
his actions would start a race
war. We have an opportunity to
show that not only was he
wrong, but that just the opposite
is happening,” Haley said,
flanked by Democrats and Re-
publicans, blacks and whites
who joined her call.
“My hope is that by removing
a symbol that divides us, we can
move our state forward in har-
mony, and we can honor the
nine blessed souls who are now
in Heaven,” Haley said.
The massacre inside the
Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church has suddenly
made removing the flag — long
thought politically impossible in
South Carolina — the go-to po-
sition, even for conservative Re-
publican politicians.
Haley was flanked by Repub-
lican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham,
now running for president, as
well as South Carolina’s junior
Republican senator, Tim Scott,
and Democratic Rep. Jim Cly-
bum, both of whom are black.
Within moments, her call was
echoed by the Republican Party
chairman and the top GOP law-
maker, Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell.
The governor’s declarations
sparked action in other arenas
as well on Monday: Mississippi
House Speaker Philip Gunn
called for the Confederate em-
blem to be removed from the
state flag, becoming the first top-
tier Republican to do so.
In Tennessee, both Demo-
crats and Republicans called for
the removal of a bust of Confed-
erate general and early Ku Klux
Klan leader Nathan Bedford
ft
The pushback against soar-
ing cancer drug prices is gaining
steam. A leading doctors group
on Monday proposed a formula
to help patients decide if a medi-
cine is worth it — what it will
cost them and how much good it
is likely to do.
The move by the American
Society of Clinical Oncology is
the third recent effort to focus on
value in cancer care. Two weeks
ago, the European Society for
Medical Oncology proposed a
similar guide. Last week, Me-
morial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center in New York posted an
online tool suggesting a drug’s
fair price, based on benefits and
side effects.
“We have a broken system”
with drug prices rising more
than the degree of benefit, said
Dr. Peter Bach, director of the
Center for Health Policy and
Outcomes at Sloan Kettering.
‘We hope consumers increas-
ingly think about value.”
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Washington
GOP candidates return
donations from Holt
Republican presidential can-
didates, GOP lawmakers and
the lone black Republican in the
House are returning donations
from the leader of a white su-
premacist group cited by
Charleston church murder sus-
pect Dylann Roof or giving the
money to charity.
Rep. Mia Love of Utah, an
African-American Republican
woman who was elected to the
House last year, said through a
spokesman that she had re-
turned $1,000 in donations
from Earl Holt, leader of the
Council of Conservative Citi-
zens.
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points.’
‘We do not need to declare a
winner and a loser,” she said.
“This is a moment in which we
can say that the flag, while an in-
tegral part of our past, does not
represent the future of our great
state.”
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Only a few months have
passed since Haley, an Indian-
American, described an oppo-
nent’s rally to bring down the flag
as a campaign stunt. She claimed
last year that businesses weren’t
bothered despite continuing boy-
cott demands by black groups.
We really fixed all that,” she
said, with her election as the
state’s first female and first minor-
ity governor, and the election of
Scott as the South’s first black U.S.
senator since Reconstruction.
The day after the shooting,
Haley’s posture had changed.
“We woke up today and the
heart and soul of South Carolina
was broken,” she said.
The governor’s announce-
ment came as civil rights groups
planned days of marches and
protests against the Confederate
flag that Roof embraced.
“The flag got appropriated by
hate groups. We can’t put it in a
public place where it can give
any oxygen to hate-filled people,”
said Charleston Mayor Joseph R
Riley Jr., a Democrat.
Albert Cesare, The Montgomery Advertiser/AP
A Confederate flag flies next to the Alabama Confederate Memorial on the grounds of the
Alabama Capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday.
Forrest from an alcove outside
the Senate’s chambers.
And Wal-Mart announced
Monday that it is removing any
items from its store shelves and
website that feature the Confed-
erate flag.
Haley urged South Carolina’s
GOP-led House and Senate to
debate the issue no later than
this summer. If not, she said she
will call a special session and
force them to resolve it. “I will
use that authority for the pur-
pose of the legislature removing
the flag from the Statehouse
grounds,” she said.
South Carolina House Mi-
nority Leader Todd Rutherford
says he’s confident after talking
to members of both parties that
the Confederate flag will be tak-
en down within the next two
months.
‘A lot of people understand
this is a moment we have to re-
spond to,” said Rep. Rick Quinn,
a Republican and former House
majority leader who said he will
vote to take it down.
Lawmakers have proposed
moving it to the state-run Con-
federate Relic Room and Mili-
tary Museum.
Making any changes to the
banner requires a two-thirds su-
permajority in both houses un-
der the terms of a 15-year-old
deal that moved it from atop the
Statehouse to a position next to a
monument to Confederate sol-
diers out front.
The last governor who called
for the flag’s removal, Republi-
can David Beasley, was hounded
out of office in 1998 by the Sons
of Confederate Veterans. The
group’s influence also doomed
his front-running Senate cam-
paign for the seat won by Re-
publican Jim DeMint.
“Do not associate the cow-
ardly actions of a racist to our
Confederate Banner,” the
group’s South Carolina com-
mander, Leland Summers, said
in a statement. “There is abso-
lutely no link between The
Charleston Massacre and The
Confederate Memorial Banner.
Don’t try to create one.”
As recently as November
2014, a poll of 852 people by
The presidential campaigns
of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and
Rick Santorum said they would
donate the money received from
Holt to a fund set up by Charles-
ton’s mayor to assist the victims’
families.
“I abhor the sentiments Mr.
Holt has expressed,” Santorum
said in a statement. “These
statements and sentiments are
unacceptable. Period. End of
sentence.”
Holt has contributed more
than $60,000 to Republicans
since 2010, including several
White House hopefuls, Federal
Election Commission records
show.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg
Abbott is donating to charity a
$1,000 campaign contribution
from Holt.
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EVANGELISM TEAM
Apple’s about-face reveals
cracks in music industry
Washington
Report: Climate change
could cause death spike
Failure to act on climate
change could cause an estimat-
ed 57,000 deaths a year in the
United States from poor air
quality by 2100, the Obama ad-
ministration argued in a report
released Monday that warns of
dire effects of global warming.
The report says inaction on
climate change could cost bil-
lions of dollars a year in damage
from rising sea levels, increased
wildfires and drought, as well as
higher costs for electricity to cool
homes and businesses in hotter
temperatures. The Environ-
mental Protection Agency re-
port argues that action now on
climate could save billions in
avoided costs for maintenance
and repairs on roads and bridges
made vulnerable by global
warming and save the lives of an
estimated 12,000 people in 49
U.S. cities who could die from
extreme temperatures in 2100.
— The Associated Press
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start paying a $10-a-month sub-
scription fee for the service,
which it plans to launch June
By Ryan Nakashima
and Brandon Bailey
AP Business Writers
LOS ANGELES - Apple’s
abrupt about-face on paying roy-
alties for songs during a three-
month free-trial period for its new
music service was a symbolic vic-
tory for superstar Taylor Swift and
other artists, and a shrewd busi-
ness move by Apple, at a time
when the streaming phenome-
non is causing major changes in
the music industry.
The olive branch extended by
Apple comes as music is increas-
ingly being consumed on
streaming services like Spotify
and Deezer — to the detriment
of album sales and iTunes
downloads — heightening ten-
sions between artists, labels and
service providers over who gets
paid and how much.
Apple had already agreed to
share revenue from the new Ap-
ple Music service once users
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