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Archive for March 18th, 2008

18 Mar

Stunning: Barack Obama’s speech on Race in America

I urge you to watch this speech in its entirety. You will be moved.

We the people of America cannot settle for racial politics as usual. Not this time.

Here is the text of his speech “A More Perfect Union”:
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, [...]

18 Mar

Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and Race

How’s he going to do it? How will Barack Obama reconcile the off-putting excerpts of Jeremiah Wright’s fire breathing oratory with his own peaceful, easy feeling vision of bringing our country together beyond the barriers that have existed since Plymouth Rock?
I think it’s impossible.
Barack Obama’s initial wishy-washy and overly parsed response to Wright’s most [...]