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Demographics at heart of South Carolina primary

January 22, 2008

CHARLESTON, S.C.--On the eve of the nation's first caucuses, creative writer Yvonne Ravennah Bondurant was inspired to write a poem calling on Americans not to judge Barack Obama by the color of his skin.

In her verse, "Words for Obama," Bondurant, who grew up in Hempstead, wrote: "Why does my color and name say to you I can't win? Did you forget the builders of this...

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