Obama Urges U.S. to Grapple With Racial Issue - NYT

[stop the bleeding]

By JEFF ZELENY
Published: March 19, 2008

PHILADELPHIA — Senator Barack Obama delivered a sweeping assessment of race in America on Tuesday, bluntly confronting the divisions between black and white as he sought to dispel the furor over inflammatory statements by his former pastor

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“The fact is,” he said, “that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through — a part of our Union that we have yet to perfect.

“And if we walk away now,” he continued, “if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.”

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Mr. Obama stayed up well into the night writing much of the speech himself, aides said. His words carried familiar strains of the biography he wrote more than a decade ago about his search for racial identify.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/us/politics/19obama.html?ref=politics



Please discuss

[MannyGoldstein]

1. I'm The Most Cynical Person In The World

Hell, I even knew in 1992 that Bill 'n Hill were bad, bad news, phonies of the worst sort.

But Obama strikes me as the real deal - a leader who's smart, thoughtful, and articulate.

[stop the bleeding]

2. I think A LOT of people would say the same thing

:beer: