Obama Speaks Out on Race Issue in the U.S.

Wed19Mar2008

Obama Speaks Out on Race Issue in the U.S.

08:46 H | Topics: Politics - Race - US Presidential Race 2008

It is the speech that everyone is talking/blogging about. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, was supposed to be distancing himself from comments made by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., but instead he presented an incredibly nuanced assessment of race in this country, how race and its legacy impacts the way people access health care and education.

If you're not a video person, you can read the speech here.

Via / Culture Kitchen and Transgriot

Edited to add: It's been really interesting to watch international/Latin American coverage of the speech. On Television Nacional de Chile's news broadcast last night, they summed up the speech as Obama saying that black and white are all the same and that there are no more race issues in the U.S.

Maybe they had a really bad translator?

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1. EYES OF TEXAS ~ Wednesday, Mar 19 2008 | 11:50H:

Obama has still not distanced himself from Rev. Wright, but only changes subjects in hopes of making race the major talking point instead of his devote relationship to a racist reverend. This will end Obamas chances of beating Clinton in the primaries.

2. Maegan la Mala Ortiz ~ Thursday, Mar 20 2008 | 13:25H:

What I love is how when a person of color says something that's true, it's racist. I would have been far more impressed if Obama had said, know what, what the Rev. said is right. And Race is a more than a talking point, it's a reality that people of color live with every day, a point they don't have the luxury of ignoring.

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