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Joe Biden’s China Journey – The New York Times

WASHINGTON — On a steamy August day along the Chinese coast, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. stepped off a minibus at a seaside compound for a series of unusual meetings with China’s Communist Party leaders.At a lunch banquet, Mr. Biden and three other senators argued with Chinese officials about what the O.J. Simpson trial had

“It is a abnormal sensation, this double-consciousness, this experience of at all times taking a look at one’s self during the eyes of others,…

“It is a atypical sensation, this double-consciousness, this experience of all the time one’s self during the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by way of the tape of a global that appears on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;