Reply #3: This is just sad [View All]

[sandnsea]

Black America missed the point in 2004 too, bought into all kinds of smears against John Kerry that weren't anywhere near true. I sincerely hope they don't get played again.

Obama wasn't saying there aren't racist problems in America. He was saying we are more than that, we are better than that.

"I'm not talking about blind optimism here — the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. The audacity of hope!"