To the white working man and woman, he has been seen too often as an aloof elitist, who can't drink whisky, displays a suspicious familiarity with the price of an arugula salad and memorably bowled a deplorable 37 in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

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Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.

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When I read the letter, he had made a statement that a white woman and a black man together ...

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It depicts a sailor shaking hands with two industrial workers - a man in coveralls and a woman with a white apron and hair covering.

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Our team was composed of a white guy, a Latina, a black woman and a black man bound by a single commitment: to send kids to college.

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"The way our family structures are done is that when a man and a woman get married they are not considered related, " says White.

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Making the disparity appear the greatest, the White House uses a distorted snapshot to compare the earnings of the median full-time working man and woman, ignoring the many factors that we know influence how much someone earns.

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