Obama on race: Still perfecting the Union

March 18th, 2008 at 11:10am Chuck Sweeny

Barack Obama has just delivered a masterful, sweeping speech about race relations, in Philadelphia, across the street from Independence Hall. He manages to strongly criticize some of his former pastor’s words, while refusing to throw him under the bus. Mostly, the speech is a frank discussion of the state of race relations in 21st century America.

Read it here, and tell me your reaction.

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