Thursday, September 18, 2008

Obama speaks on Racial Division



Barack Obama braved the nation’s racial divide head-on Tuesday, addressing both black objection and white bitterness in a huge effort to calm campaign chaos over race and his former pastor’s statements.

While he was sanding before a row of eight America flags near the building where the Declaration of Independence was adopted Obama pleaded for the nation to break “a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years.”

“The anger is real,” Obama said.  “It is powerful, and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.”

The speech, at the National Constitution Center, was the most important expression of racial issues in Obama’s 13-month campaign to become the first black president.  This was provoked by the notice his former pastor’s racial statements have been getting in the past week or so. 

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