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

[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.