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Washington (CNN) -- No decision has been made on whether to change the current plan to hold the September 11 terrorist attack trial in a civilian court in lower Manhattan, White House officials said Sunday.

Last week, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other politicians expressed concern over the costs and disruption of holding the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices at a New York City courthouse.

David Axelrod, the senior adviser to President Obama, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday that Obama believes the trial should take place in a criminal court instead of before a military commission, as permitted for some terrorism suspects.

However, Axelrod and Gibbs acknowledged that Obama and the Justice Department were considering moving the trial from New York City.

"We've made no decisions on that yet," Axelrod said on the NBC program "Meet the Press." Gibbs, speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," also said the location of the trial was under discussion, but he expressed certainty that Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, "is going to meet justice and he's going to meet his maker."

Gibbs and Axelrod criticized Republican opposition to the plan to hold the trial in a criminal court, saying no one complained when the previous administration of Republican President George W. Bush put terrorism suspects such as "shoe bomber" Richard Reid on trial in U.S. criminal courts.

"Now we have a Democratic president and suddenly we hear these protests," Axelrod said. "What has changed between now and then that would cause people to reverse positions?"

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, told the CNN program that the Bush administration was wrong to hold terrorism trials on U.S. soil. Instead, trials for dangerous terrorism suspects should be held by military commissions at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility where they currently are held, McConnell said.

Obama intends to shut down the Guantanamo facility by transferring the roughly 200 suspects to the United States to stand trial or face indefinite detention, or to third countries. McConnell said Sunday he would fight that plan by trying to withhold federal spending for it.

"'I think that will be done on a bipartisan basis," McConnell said of congressional opposition, adding that "whatever domestic support they had for this is totally collapsing."

White House officials say the decision about any possible alternate sites to try Mohammed and the others will come from the Justice Department.

New York police estimated that the cost to the city would be more than $200 million per year in what could be a multi-year trial and that more than 2,000 checkpoints would need to be installed around Lower Manhattan. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said additional protection would have to be deployed for the city, not just "the core area of Manhattan."

Bloomberg initially supported the move, saying "it is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site where so many New Yorkers were murdered."

However, Bloomberg used different rhetoric last week when asked about a community agency's proposals to relocate the trial, saying he would prefer the trial be held elsewhere, perhaps at a military base where it would be easier and cheaper to provide security.

"It's going to cost an awful lot of money and disturb a lot of people," Bloomberg said.

On Thursday, several New York Democratic politicians urged the Obama administration to thoroughly re-examine locating the trial in downtown Manhattan.

Julie Menin, chairwoman of a city community advisory agency, proposed four alternative locations for the trial within the Southern District of New York: Governors Island, Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the Bureau of Prisons jail complex at FCI Otisville. The latter three are in Orange County, New York, less than an hour from New York City, county executive Edward Diana told CNN.

Diana thinks the trials should not be held anywhere in New York, and definitely not in Orange County, which lost 44 residents in the terror attacks, he said.

"I've contacted my legal department and I'll tell you I'll do whatever it takes to stop those trials from coming here, even if it means closing down our roads," Diana said. "I'll sue the federal government if need be."

Diana said he'd be worried about the safety of Orange County residents if the trial comes there. Diana, who shot down an offer from Newburgh to host the proceedings in their new courthouse, said the suspects should not be tried in civilian courts.

But Newburgh Mayor Nick Valentine said the boost in media presence and police funding during the trial would help his "very poor, very urban" city. Newburgh's new $22 million courthouse is safe and has "every security you could want," Valentine said.

An alternate proposal at the West Point location has not been fully reviewed. A West Point spokesman said no one has officially requested a review of demands for such a trial, which would require in-depth study of legal and security concerns.

U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Dean Boyd said the Justice Department "can safely prosecute this case in the Southern District of New York while minimizing disruptions to the community to the greatest extent possible, consistent with security needs."

New York Gov. David Paterson will meet with the U.S. Marshal Service on Monday to discuss possible 9/11 trial locations in the state, Paterson spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein told CNN.

CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report.

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Melissa Harris-Lacewell is associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning book "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought" and writes a daily blog titled The Kitchen Table.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell says African-Americans remain skeptical about racial progress in the U.S.

PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) -- America was proud of itself for electing Barack Obama. The pride was not just partisan and ideological; it was also specifically and clearly racial.

The morning after Obama's win, The New York Times declared "Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory." The Los Angeles Times asserted that "for the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be its paramount leader."

Some black commentators openly wept on election night, thrilled with witnessing the election of our first black president. Even Sen. John McCain, conceding defeat, pointed to the greatness of the American promise fulfilled in the election of his opponent. Obama's victory offered the possibility that the scars of America's racial legacy were healed or, at least, that they were less raw.

For many African-American citizens, the election of the first black U.S. president was cause for celebration and open-mouthed wonder about an outcome that seemed so unlikely just two years earlier, when Obama announced his bid.

Despite this joy, many black citizens were dubious that his victory represented the destruction of any particular racial barrier.

African-Americans were both proud of and excited about Obama, but in the 45 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, black Americans had seen doors to power, influence and wealth open just enough to admit just a few without fundamentally altering opportunities for the majority.

Indeed, responses to a recent CNN/Essence Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicate that black enthusiasm about Obama exists side-by-by side with deep skepticism about America's racial progress.

This atmosphere of both enthusiasm and doubt has sparked discussion about whether we have entered a post-racial era in American politics.

It is a difficult debate, because the term "post-racial" is not clearly defined. Race itself is a slippery idea. Typically, we treat race like a fixed, unchanging, biological category. But race is none of these things.

Race is a social construct. Though it is based in physical traits, race is a category developed through social practice, law and history. As a nation, we made blackness through our politics, developing a category of people who could be enslaved and later segregated.

So when we talk of a post-racial America, we are not pointing to the massive demographic shifts that are unalterably changing the racial, ethnic and linguistic landscape of America. Instead, "post-racial" is an expression of social and political longing.

For most, this means an America free of racism and discrimination, but others seem to hint at a society entirely free of racial identity or recognition.

The idea of a post-racial America has been upheld as an achievable ideal where people would receive equal treatment and fair outcomes regardless of their race.

It has been critiqued as an impossible dream unlikely to exist in a nation with a history of slavery and legal discrimination.

It has been denounced as an unworthy goal that would require black Americans to reject their cultural specificity and unique social and political concerns.

Undoubtedly, the 2008 election broke formerly entrenched racial trends. Obama was elected just as the depth and breadth of the American economic crisis was becoming clear. Some suggested that his victory could be explained by the nation's fiscal difficulties because he was the candidate of the out-party, which often wins when times are hard. But this analysis forgets the cross-cutting history of race.

When the economic pie shrinks, Americans rarely form multiracial political coalitions led by minority candidates. Obama's victory countered the trend toward racial balkanization more typical in tough economic times.

The changing dynamics of racial politics were further evidenced when Obama won both Virginia and North Carolina. In these Southern states and in many blue states throughout the country, Obama shattered the "Bradley Effect," often getting a higher percentage of the white vote than polls predicted. There was little evidence that white voters rejected Obama based on his race, and few white Democrats crossed party lines to vote for McCain.

For these reasons, Obama's win offers evidence of a post-racial American electoral politics. And if not post-racial, these data at least point to a much less racist American voting public than what existed 40 years ago.

Still, the election of a black president has not changed the material realities of racial inequality. African-Americans are significantly more distressed than their white counterparts on every meaningful economic indicator: income, unemployment, wealth, education, home ownership and home foreclosures.

African-American social realities are equally grim. Blacks are far more likely to be arrested and more harshly sentenced than whites. African-Americans are less likely to marry, more likely to divorce and more likely to live in single- parent households. Compared with whites, blacks are more likely to suffer infant mortality, cancer, diabetes and premature death.

Substantial evidence shows that the economic, social and even political gains made by African-Americans in the 1960s and 1970s have leveled off or reversed in the past decade in areas such as urban education, the number of black elected officials and the racial wealth gap. The murder of a security guard at the national Holocaust museum by a racist anti-Semite reminded the nation that old-fashioned, violent bigotry still has life in America.

These sobering realities indicate that race still vastly over-determines the life chances of Americans. These differences cannot be explained away by class alone, because most of these inequalities persist even when controlling for income. To be born black in America is still a tremendous disadvantage compared with being born white in this country.

Herein lies the challenge facing Americans in this new racial era. For much of the 20th century, the battle for civil rights rested on a belief that political equality would translate into social and economic justice. There can be little doubt that many of the substantive battles for political power and representation have been won. In that sense, Obama's election is the fulfillment of a post-racial political promise.

It is equally clear that this political arrival has not ushered in the other substantive racial changes that the civil rights movement hoped to achieve. In many ways, political equality is just the beginning of the process. The work of politics is to collectively craft the nation we want to have. The election of Obama does not indicate the realization of post-racial America, but it does allow us the opportunity to engage in renewed, collective questioning of what a racially just nation is like.

Having achieved so much politically, there is still real debate about how to end overt racism, structural discrimination and persistent inequality. Some want a country where the black kids don't sit together in the cafeteria, while others hope black kids being together will provoke neither comment nor anxiety.

Some want a nation where no one notices race, while others hope that their racial identity can be both recognized and appreciated. Some worry that eliminating racial barriers will only solidify economic differences, while others suspect that economic justice cannot be achieved without grappling with race. Some want the end of all inequality, while others simply hope disparities will be based on "merit" rather than race.

As citizens in a democracy, we can choose the future of our racial politics. Not all at once and not without struggle, but we can make new choices

And this time, African-Americans participate in the process of remaking America's racial story from a very different position than we have occupied in the past. Rather than being solely on the margins of national power, black Americans, through the person of Obama, have achieved a new kind of citizenship more empowered to recreate American race.

This does not mean black people have equal political or economic power, but it does mean that the election of Obama encourages black Americans to even more loudly and clearly articulate our varied aspirations for our country.

In November, we did a marvelous thing. Now, the work begins.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Melissa Harris-Lacewell.

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text: election

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text: election

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text: they

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text: proud

text: of

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text: excited

text: about

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text: in

text: the

text: years

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text: the

text: passage

text: of

text: the

text: Civil

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text: doors

text: to

text: power

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text: and

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text: open

text: just

text: enough

text: to

text: admit

text: just

text: a

text: few

text: without

text: fundamentally

text: altering

text: opportunities

text: for

text: the

text: majority

text: Indeed

text: responses

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text: a

text: recent

text: CNN

text: Essence

text: Magazine

text: Opinion

text: Research

text: Corp.

text: survey

text: indicate

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text: black

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text: about

text: Obama

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text: side

text: by

text: by

text: side

text: with

text: deep

text: skepticism

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text: has

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text: we

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text: a

text: post

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text: politics

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text: a

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text: So

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text: linguistic

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text: an

text: expression

text: of

text: social

text: and

text: political

text: longing

text: For

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text: this

text: means

text: an

text: America

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text: of

text: racism

text: and

text: discrimination

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text: seem

text: to

text: hint

text: at

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text: society

text: entirely

text: free

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text: or

text: recognition

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text: post

text: racial

text: America

text: has

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text: achievable

text: ideal

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text: receive

text: equal

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text: fair

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text: history

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text: denounced

text: as

text: an

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text: unique

text: social

text: and

text: political

text: concerns

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text: election

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text: the

text: depth

text: and

text: breadth

text: of

text: the

text: American

text: economic

text: crisis

text: was

text: becoming

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text: suggested

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text: his

text: victory

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text: be

text: explained

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text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: fiscal

text: difficulties

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text: candidate

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text: out

text: party

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text: times

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text: analysis

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text: cross

text: cutting

text: history

text: of

text: race

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text: the

text: economic

text: pie

text: shrinks

text: Americans

text: rarely

text: form

text: multiracial

text: political

text: coalitions

text: led

text: by

text: minority

text: candidates

text: Obama

text: 's

text: victory

text: countered

text: the

text: trend

text: toward

text: racial

text: balkanization

text: more

text: typical

text: in

text: tough

text: economic

text: times

text: The

text: changing

text: dynamics

text: of

text: racial

text: politics

text: were

text: further

text: evidenced

text: when

text: Obama

text: won

text: both

text: Virginia

text: and

text: North

text: Carolina

text: In

text: these

text: Southern

text: states

text: and

text: in

text: many

text: blue

text: states

text: throughout

text: the

text: country

text: Obama

text: shattered

text: the

text: Bradley

text: Effect

text: often

text: getting

text: a

text: higher

text: percentage

text: of

text: the

text: white

text: vote

text: than

text: polls

text: predicted

text: There

text: was

text: little

text: evidence

text: that

text: white

text: voters

text: rejected

text: Obama

text: based

text: on

text: his

text: race

text: and

text: few

text: white

text: Democrats

text: crossed

text: party

text: lines

text: to

text: vote

text: for

text: McCain

text: For

text: these

text: reasons

text: Obama

text: 's

text: win

text: offers

text: evidence

text: of

text: a

text: post

text: racial

text: American

text: electoral

text: politics

text: And

text: if

text: not

text: post

text: racial

text: these

text: data

text: at

text: least

text: point

text: to

text: a

text: much

text: less

text: racist

text: American

text: voting

text: public

text: than

text: what

text: existed

text: years

text: ago

text: Still

text: the

text: election

text: of

text: a

text: black

text: president

text: has

text: not

text: changed

text: the

text: material

text: realities

text: of

text: racial

text: inequality

text: African

text: Americans

text: are

text: significantly

text: more

text: distressed

text: than

text: their

text: white

text: counterparts

text: on

text: every

text: meaningful

text: economic

text: indicator

text: income

text: unemployment

text: wealth

text: education

text: home

text: ownership

text: and

text: home

text: foreclosures

text: African

text: American

text: social

text: realities

text: are

text: equally

text: grim

text: Blacks

text: are

text: far

text: more

text: likely

text: to

text: be

text: arrested

text: and

text: more

text: harshly

text: sentenced

text: than

text: whites

text: African

text: Americans

text: are

text: less

text: likely

text: to

text: marry

text: more

text: likely

text: to

text: divorce

text: and

text: more

text: likely

text: to

text: live

text: in

text: single-

text: parent

text: households

text: Compared

text: with

text: whites

text: blacks

text: are

text: more

text: likely

text: to

text: suffer

text: infant

text: mortality

text: cancer

text: diabetes

text: and

text: premature

text: death

text: Substantial

text: evidence

text: shows

text: that

text: the

text: economic

text: social

text: and

text: even

text: political

text: gains

text: made

text: by

text: African

text: Americans

text: in

text: the

text: and

text: have

text: leveled

text: off

text: or

text: reversed

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: decade

text: in

text: areas

text: such

text: as

text: urban

text: education

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: black

text: elected

text: officials

text: and

text: the

text: racial

text: wealth

text: gap

text: The

text: murder

text: of

text: a

text: security

text: guard

text: at

text: the

text: national

text: Holocaust

text: museum

text: by

text: a

text: racist

text: anti

text: Semite

text: reminded

text: the

text: nation

text: that

text: old

text: fashioned

text: violent

text: bigotry

text: still

text: has

text: life

text: in

text: America

text: These

text: sobering

text: realities

text: indicate

text: that

text: race

text: still

text: vastly

text: over

text: determines

text: the

text: life

text: chances

text: of

text: Americans

text: These

text: differences

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: explained

text: away

text: by

text: class

text: alone

text: because

text: most

text: of

text: these

text: inequalities

text: persist

text: even

text: when

text: controlling

text: for

text: income

text: To

text: be

text: born

text: black

text: in

text: America

text: is

text: still

text: a

text: tremendous

text: disadvantage

text: compared

text: with

text: being

text: born

text: white

text: in

text: this

text: country

text: Herein

text: lies

text: the

text: challenge

text: facing

text: Americans

text: in

text: this

text: new

text: racial

text: era

text: For

text: much

text: of

text: the

text: century

text: the

text: battle

text: for

text: civil

text: rights

text: rested

text: on

text: a

text: belief

text: that

text: political

text: equality

text: would

text: translate

text: into

text: social

text: and

text: economic

text: justice

text: There

text: can

text: be

text: little

text: doubt

text: that

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: substantive

text: battles

text: for

text: political

text: power

text: and

text: representation

text: have

text: been

text: won

text: In

text: that

text: sense

text: Obama

text: 's

text: election

text: is

text: the

text: fulfillment

text: of

text: a

text: post

text: racial

text: political

text: promise

text: It

text: is

text: equally

text: clear

text: that

text: this

text: political

text: arrival

text: has

text: not

text: ushered

text: in

text: the

text: other

text: substantive

text: racial

text: changes

text: that

text: the

text: civil

text: rights

text: movement

text: hoped

text: to

text: achieve

text: In

text: many

text: ways

text: political

text: equality

text: is

text: just

text: the

text: beginning

text: of

text: the

text: process

text: The

text: work

text: of

text: politics

text: is

text: to

text: collectively

text: craft

text: the

text: nation

text: we

text: want

text: to

text: have

text: The

text: election

text: of

text: Obama

text: does

text: not

text: indicate

text: the

text: realization

text: of

text: post

text: racial

text: America

text: but

text: it

text: does

text: allow

text: us

text: the

text: opportunity

text: to

text: engage

text: in

text: renewed

text: collective

text: questioning

text: of

text: what

text: a

text: racially

text: just

text: nation

text: is

text: like

text: Having

text: achieved

text: so

text: much

text: politically

text: there

text: is

text: still

text: real

text: debate

text: about

text: how

text: to

text: end

text: overt

text: racism

text: structural

text: discrimination

text: and

text: persistent

text: inequality

text: Some

text: want

text: a

text: country

text: where

text: the

text: black

text: kids

text: do

text: n't

text: sit

text: together

text: in

text: the

text: cafeteria

text: while

text: others

text: hope

text: black

text: kids

text: being

text: together

text: will

text: provoke

text: neither

text: comment

text: nor

text: anxiety

text: Some

text: want

text: a

text: nation

text: where

text: no

text: one

text: notices

text: race

text: while

text: others

text: hope

text: that

text: their

text: racial

text: identity

text: can

text: be

text: both

text: recognized

text: and

text: appreciated

text: Some

text: worry

text: that

text: eliminating

text: racial

text: barriers

text: will

text: only

text: solidify

text: economic

text: differences

text: while

text: others

text: suspect

text: that

text: economic

text: justice

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: achieved

text: without

text: grappling

text: with

text: race

text: Some

text: want

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: all

text: inequality

text: while

text: others

text: simply

text: hope

text: disparities

text: will

text: be

text: based

text: on

text: merit

text: rather

text: than

text: race

text: As

text: citizens

text: in

text: a

text: democracy

text: we

text: can

text: choose

text: the

text: future

text: of

text: our

text: racial

text: politics

text: Not

text: all

text: at

text: once

text: and

text: not

text: without

text: struggle

text: but

text: we

text: can

text: make

text: new

text: choices

text: And

text: this

text: time

text: African

text: Americans

text: participate

text: in

text: the

text: process

text: of

text: remaking

text: America

text: 's

text: racial

text: story

text: from

text: a

text: very

text: different

text: position

text: than

text: we

text: have

text: occupied

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: Rather

text: than

text: being

text: solely

text: on

text: the

text: margins

text: of

text: national

text: power

text: black

text: Americans

text: through

text: the

text: person

text: of

text: Obama

text: have

text: achieved

text: a

text: new

text: kind

text: of

text: citizenship

text: more

text: empowered

text: to

text: recreate

text: American

text: race

text: This

text: does

text: not

text: mean

text: black

text: people

text: have

text: equal

text: political

text: or

text: economic

text: power

text: but

text: it

text: does

text: mean

text: that

text: the

text: election

text: of

text: Obama

text: encourages

text: black

text: Americans

text: to

text: even

text: more

text: loudly

text: and

text: clearly

text: articulate

text: our

text: varied

text: aspirations

text: for

text: our

text: country

text: In

text: November

text: we

text: did

text: a

text: marvelous

text: thing

text: Now

text: the

text: work

text: begins

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Melissa

text: Harris

text: Lacewell

question: does she feel issues of race are still significant

answer: says African-Americans remain skeptical about racial progress in the U.S.

text: says African-Americans remain skeptical about racial progress in the U.S.

question: What is the name of the person being quoted?

answer: Melissa Harris-Lacewell

text: Melissa Harris-Lacewell

question: What did the election represent?

answer: the possibility that the scars of America's racial legacy were healed or, at least, that they were less raw.

text: the possibility that the scars of America's racial legacy were healed or, at least, that they were less raw.

question: what did harris-lacewell say about obama's election

answer: racial progress in the U.S.

text: racial progress in the U.S.

question: What is the name of the person who won the election?

answer: Barack Obama.

text: Barack Obama.


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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Hurricane Omar became a major Category 3 storm Wednesday night as it barreled toward the Virgin and Leeward Islands in the West Indies, the National Hurricane Center said.

A man watches waves crash into the shore Tuesday at Club Nautico in Falcon state, Venezuela.

Omar is expected to continue gathering strength as it passes east of the Virgin Islands in the next few hours and makes its way to the northern Leeward Islands Thursday morning, the hurricane center said.

At 11 p.m., Omar was moving northeast at about 20 mph with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. The hurricane's center was about 30 miles (45 km) southwest of St. Croix and about 105 miles (165 km) southwest of St. Martin.

A hurricane warning --meaning winds of 74 mph and higher are expected within a day -- is in effect for the U.S. Virgin Islands, the islands of Vieques, Culebra, St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy, the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla.  See where Omar is headed Â»

Puerto Rico is under a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch, as are St. Kitts and Nevis, the hurricane center said.

As Omar approached, Hovensa, a 500,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery on St. Croix, began shutting down all processing and auxiliary equipment "except those necessary to maintain power supply in the complex," refinery spokesman Alex Moorhead said in a statement.  Watch Venezuelans try to save homes, dogs Â»

The move was to ensure the safety of employees and the operation of the refinery, which is jointly owned by Hess Corp. and Venezuela's state oil company.

The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Christiansted Harbor, where the refinery is located, on Tuesday, and it will remain closed until the order is lifted, Moorhead said.

"Once Hurricane Omar has passed, we will conduct an inspection of our facilities as soon as it is safe to do so. If no damage is found that would impact safe operation of the refinery, the start-up of processing units will begin in sequential order," Moorhead said.

Puerto Rico and some portions of the northern Leeward Islands, which includes the Virgin Islands, could get up to 20 inches of rain, according to the forecast.

"These rains could produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the hurricane center warned.

Also, the storm could produce large swells affecting the western and southern coasts of the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean islands that stretch from the Virgin Islands southward to the islands off Venezuela's coast.

The swells could cause beach erosion and damage coastal structures, the hurricane center said.

Antigua, Barbuda and Montserrat are under a tropical storm warning, meaning they could experience tropical storm conditions over the coming 24 hours. A tropical storm watch is in effect for Guadeloupe.

The storm's forecast track shows it heading into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean after crossing over the Virgin Islands and sweeping past Puerto Rico, but hurricane tracks are subject to variation, and such long-range predictions can change.

Omar formed Tuesday in the eastern Caribbean. It is the 15th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1 and ends November 30.

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text: night

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text: West

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MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- Dozens of gay and lesbian rights activists planning a parade in southwestern Moscow Saturday have been detained, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

Gay and lesbian rights activists are detained in Moscow Saturday ahead of a planned march.

The arrests included Nikolai Alexeyev, a prominent gay activist in Russia, and his associate Nikolai Bayev, Interfax said, adding that more people trickling into the location were being arrested without explanation.

Officials of Moscow's gay community had announced earlier plans to rally at Novopushkinsky Park in central Moscow, Interfax said.

The arrests came ahead of Saturday night's Eurovision Song Contest, which is being held in Moscow. The contest has a strong following among the gay and lesbian community.  Watch police break up the march Â»

Journalists from various countries gathered at the scene, as police barricaded the park with metal bars. Trucks with soldiers onboard were parked on nearby streets, Interfax said.

UK gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, in a statement on his Web site ahead of the march, said it was being held to coincide with the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.

"This parade is in defense of human rights. We are defending the often violated human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Russians. They want legal protection against discrimination and hate crimes. I support their cause.

"Not all Russians are homophobic, but many are. Gay Russians suffer queer-bashing attacks, blackmail, verbal abuse and discrimination in education, housing and employment. This shames the great Russian nation."

The Eurovision Song Contest, which began in 1956, sees singers and groups from a short list of European nations perform a specially written song before telephone votes from each nation decide the winner.

In western Europe, the contest is regard as a light entertainment spectacular, with a strong following among the gay and lesbian community. Many fans dress up, hold parties and gather round the TV to watch the three-hour-plus televised marathon.

In recent years, however, eastern European nations, which take the contest much more seriously, have come to dominate.

The contest is also known for its political edge, as nations either give zero points to traditional enemies -- or, if they are enjoying good relations, the maximum number of points, as a sign of friendship.

The most famous winners of the contest were ABBA, who came to attention as the Swedish entry with "Waterloo" in 1974. In 1988, Celine Dion won the contest while singing on behalf of Switzerland. The dance show Riverdance first came to attention as an interval act when the contest was held in Dublin, Ireland, in 1994.

The organizers of the contest estimate it is watched by 100 million people worldwide.

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Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Moments after marine explorer Sylvia Earle finished her passionate plea to preserve vast stretches of the world's oceans at last year's TED conference, a foundation executive walked up to her and pledged a million dollars for the cause.

It was one of nearly 400 offers of support Earle received after revealing the wish she wanted to be granted as a winner of the TED Prize, given by the nonprofit organization whose motto is "Ideas worth spreading." It grants the winners $100,000 and organizational support but the impact of the prize is typically magnified by the backing of the influential audience attending the conferences.

On Wednesday, British celebrity chef and nutrition advocate Jamie Oliver will reveal his wish as the winner of the 2010 prize. "Every year we're looking around for someone who can inspire the world to do something big and interesting," says Chris Anderson, who runs  TED with the title of curator.

"The issue of obesity, both in the US and worldwide, is a big deal, a shocking problem in a world where you've got a lot of people starving and a lot of people killing themselves by overeating... or eating the wrong things. We were interested in finding an inspirational figure who could address that."

Past TED prizes have gone to former President Bill Clinton, rock star and philanthropist Bono and biologist E.O. Wilson. Since 2005, TED has granted wishes to three people a year and continues to work with past winners on achieving their wishes.

But this year, the only winner will be Oliver, who has built an empire of cooking shows, cookbooks and restaurants. Oliver, the 34-year-old son of the owners of a pub/restaurant in Essex, England, came to public attention when he starred in a BBC television series, "The Naked Chef." He has followed that up with many other series, including one on nutrition in America due to launch this spring on ABC.

The chef branched out into advocacy with a "Feed Me Better" campaign for improved school lunches in the U.K. He presented a petition with more than 270,000 signatures to the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street in 2005, and officials promised to spend an added 280 million pounds ($437 million) to improve school food quality.

TED Prize winners typically keep their wishes secret until the conference. Anderson told CNN last week that he did not know what Oliver's wish is.

"The whole idea is that the winner can actually wish for anything. We're taking a bit of a gamble here, for all we know he could wish for a hot tub full of models." The suspense is "part of the magical nature of the prize ... that moment of unveiling is special and it excites people."

Oliver's not tipping his hand about his wish, saying  -- through a spokesman -- "I humbly but passionately hope that my wish and my speech will inspire everyone in the room -- and watching on the Internet -- to take action on an issue that affects the whole world."

TED began in the 1980s as a conference in California focusing on technology, entertainment and design but has since expanded to include virtually any subject and conferences in other locations. Speakers, dressed informally, prowl a big stage -- there's no lectern -- and present their views as a clock ticks away the 18 minutes each is allotted.

This year's conference in Long Beach, California, with 1,500 people attending in person and 500 watching a simulcast at the TEDActive conference in Palm Springs, features Bill Gates, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Silverman, James Cameron, David Byrne and Eve Ensler, among a roster of speakers in fields such as technology, science, philosophy, art, music and design.

Anderson, who built and eventually sold a magazine publishing empire in the 1980s and 1990s, first attended a TED conference in 1998 and was intrigued that many people said it was the highlight of their year. He acquired TED in 2001 and hosted his first conference in 2003.

Three years later, TED began posting videos of its talks on the Web. They have been viewed more than 200 million times and many have now been given subtitles in 70 languages, through the work of volunteer translators.

With the TED Prize, the organization goes beyond simply spreading ideas. "Whenever I've been to TED, I've been struck by how towards the end of the conference, you had a room full of influential connected people absolutely burning with the possibility of inspiration, and it felt like something could be done with that," Anderson said.

After a brainstorming session with participants, the idea of a TED Prize emerged, "a prize that instead of looking back, it looked forward. You brought someone to the conference and instead of just honoring them, you granted them a wish, a chance to make a difference in the world, a wish without restrictions."

Amy Novogratz, director of the TED Prize, said the year after biologist E.O. Wilson wished for a database to document every species on earth, the organization helped launch the "Encyclopedia of Life."

"Bono, the humanitarian rock star, won in 2005," Novogratz said, "and wished for a million Americans to sign up to say that they care about poverty in Africa. With Bono and his organization we launched one.org, and he delivered a petition to the G8 that summer with almost 2 million signatures."

Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist, has led dozens of expeditions, including an all-female team that lived for weeks underwater in 1970. She also walked on the sea floor untethered at a lower depth than any other woman.

In her talk last year, she pointed out that in the past 50 years, 90 percent of the big fish in the oceans have been consumed and nearly half of the ocean's coral reefs have disappeared. Less than one percent of the ocean is protected from destructive fishing, and Earle believes the seas will go into irreversible decline unless a much larger portion - some experts say as much as 30 percent - is protected.

Earle said the world needs to act swiftly to protect what she calls "the blue heart of the planet that basically keeps us alive."

She told CNN in an interview that a major public awareness campaign will be launched this year and that plans are underway for a conference at sea to get "influential people to use their talents and intellect to come up with new ways to address these problems." Earle attributes these initiatives to the involvement of TED.

"It allows us to tap into individuals and organizations all over the world that I wouldn't be able to do as an individual," she said. "They create this awareness and they frame the issues in such a way that people get it and they're inspired to help. And that is a true gift. That's the real prize."

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question: Who is Oliver?

answer: British celebrity chef and nutrition advocate

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question: What is TED's motto?

answer: "Ideas worth spreading."

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question: what its TED ?

answer: nonprofit organization whose motto is "Ideas worth spreading."

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question: Who has the motto " Ideas worth spreading?"

answer: TED

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question: Who has the TED Prize gone to?

answer: Jamie Oliver

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LONDON, England -- Graffiti artist Banksy, famed for infiltrating museum collections without their knowledge and spray-painting public buildings around the world, is holding his first major exhibition in years.

A Banksy painting of the British House of Commons at England's Bristol museum.

This time, however, the anonymous artist worked in tandem with the director of Bristol museum in the UK.

CNN's Max Foster got a preview of his largest project to date.

The artist's anonymity gained him notoriety and he became one of the art world's biggest names with his works selling at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The exhibition's range, while very varied, remained true to Banksy form with his usual unconventional take on art.  See pictures from Banksy's exhibition Â»

"I think we might have dragged them down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs" Banksy, who is thought to be from Bristol, said about the museum.

He filled three stories of the building with his art in 36 hours under tight security, as only a few museum staff were aware of the shows' imminent arrival.

His work is hidden among the museum's usual exhibits and is split into different rooms, including installations, paintings and sculptures.

In one of the paintings, a character has been cut out and is instead sitting on the painting's frame, perhaps taking a break from posing?

Another piece, which at first glance, looks like a copy of an ancient classical statue, is in fact a woman over-loaded with countless shopping bags as she browses for yet another item.

Perhaps the most controversial, yet equally light-hearted piece, is a painting of the British Parliamentary House of Commons, filled with chimpanzees who are looking surprisingly "ministerial."

"You paint a hundred chimpanzees and they call you a guerilla artist," Banksy said.

While one of the more poignant installations is that of Tweety, the Warner Bros. animated character famous for his upbeat personality and energy, looking old and life-less.

"This show is my vision of the future," the artist said .

Banksy is unlikely to show up at the exhibition as he attempts to retain his anonymity.

But while we may never know his identity, with this latest show, Banksy has definitely shown yet another facet of his personality.

CNN's Max Foster contributed to this report

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question: What is Banksy's form?

answer: unconventional take on art.

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question: What will Banksy unveil?

answer: painting of the British House of Commons

text: painting of the British House of Commons

question: What is Banksy unveiling?

answer: his first major exhibition in years.

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question: Where is the show being held?

answer: at England's Bristol museum.

text: at England's Bristol museum.

question: What has Banksy remained true to?

answer: form with his usual unconventional take on art.

text: form with his usual unconventional take on art.