Obama's speech on race

[jrtom]

Wow.

link to YouTube video of speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU

Reading this speech almost brought tears to my eyes.

Tears of a different sort--disbelief, rage--may be found in some of the comments to the WSJ's posting of this transcript:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/18/text-of-obamas-speech-a-more-perfect-union/?mod=googlenews_wsj

As the man says, his candidacy--even his Presidency, should he achieve it, which I now fervently hope--won't solve this problem. As some of those comments clearly demonstrate.

But _damn_, I admire his straightforward approach to actually hauling this out in the open.

Comments

[paisleychick.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this! I'm watching it now. Powerful and eloquent speech

Also - your HTML is showing... you need to add an end quote

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

HTML: Oh, how embarrassing. :) Thanks for the note.

Speech

[fdmts.livejournal.com]

I heard fragments of this on NPR, and they kept backing out more and more and finally played 2 and 3 minutes of it at a time.

As you said, I nearly had tears in my eyes at the idea that this man might represent the nation. Anyone who can come right out and say "this is america," in those terms ... he's the guy for me.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I loved john Stewart's reaction to it. he said something like, "Finally, a leader has talked to the American people about race as if they were grown ups."

I love that man's backbone and the fact that when challenged, he does talk to use as if we were all thinking human beings. Ultimately, this is much of why i voted for him and why i hope to vote for him in november.