Post-Racial America

Barack Obama's sobering speech on the still festering, yet now stale, wound that is race relations in America addressed things that presidential figures have skipped over for years. It's 2008. The majority of Americans are tolerant, post-racial people who really looked at Barack Obama as a real hope, until the media got ahold of those clips. Yet despite the political pressure mounting for Obama to somehow "disown" 20 years of his history, he stands steadfast, daring to cast the line of biracial understanding to the drowning American public. He can no more disown Rev. Wright than he can disown black America; no more than he can disown anyone who tensions mount over years of percieved racial injustices, but Obama recognizes that to be a uniter he must be a bridge between predominatly two very different realities. Americans should look to this speech as inspiration face their darkest perceptions of others in a new light, one that shows understanding that they'll never understand what it's like to walk in someone else's shows. And with that reality faced we should move on as post-racial Americans.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P_9al4IQOhk