Obama Speaks Out on Race Issue in the U.S.
8:46 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics|race|US Presidential Race 2008
19 Mar 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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2 Responses to Obama Speaks Out on Race Issue in the U.S.
EYES OF TEXAS
March 19th, 2008 at 11:50 am
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.
Maegan la Mala Ortiz
March 20th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
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.