The Barak Obama Speech--March 18, 2008

This is a commentary on Barak Obama's pivotal speech on race in America.

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[PP79000]

i really appreciate your making this video. I couldn't agree with you more. i appreciate what you said about the outrage over Wright's comments being a form of racism in itself. i feel that that has been a little made, but VERY valid point that no one has had the guts to make in the media. Thank you.

[gaystaggo]

Thanks! But it was Obama who did the unspoken--talk in detail about the truths behind racism in America. But he really broadened the picture by telling us how much whites, asians, latinos, and native americans are suffering from the "zero win" effects of division. It started with the small picture of Rev. Wright and ended with the big picture of a whole nation in need of change.

[jennanov77]

Obama wrote the speech himself. Obama almost broke down to tears at 36:30 and beyond. This speech is straight from his heart. I have no doubt this will be in history! OBAMA 4EVER! THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL FIGURE IN MY LIFETIME!

[gaystaggo]

In the comments section of a WaPo article, an older conservative white man wrote that he and his wife watched the speech on TV. He stated that they cannot remember when a speech had so moved them. Even the notoriously conservative neocon Bill Crystal raved about the speech in a NYT column.

[loya2]

every body should hear the speech because the media is filtering it and focusing on weather he condemned the pastor or not

[gaystaggo]

You are so right. Yet, this is what makes YouTube and the blogoshere so essential. Information does not get buried as with the msm.

[dbair]

Wonderful from Canada

[Oktoberfesting]

4 /4

From Obama’s speech in San Francisco:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," he said.

"And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,"

[Oktoberfesting]

3 /4

From Obama’s Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the {Muslims} should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' page 261.

[Oktoberfesting]

2 /4

From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Obama’s Dreams of My Father:

I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.'

[Oktoberfesting]

1 /4 Obama’s Anti-American sentiment.

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating> myself to whites.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

[07liberian]

Awesome.

[Dragonheart2084]

You know the thing is, Obama is actually pretty brave for even running in the first place, hes had so many death threats against him. I think if he can fix the resetion and the country right again, He'll be a great president. But lets see what he does, everybody said Bush would be a good president... well just look around.

[badthing1]

Hi Staggo my friend :) I enjoyed your passion and admire you for it, but you didn't convince me to vote for Obama as much as Former Mayor Koch deepened my OWN opinion with his views that completely mirror my own on this. Wow...the election will be VERY intense!

[Mctaggart6412]

the only thing that nigger will do if fuck this nation up worse than it already is

[mcam51]

Totally Agree with you GayStaggo. Obama will usher a new era for United States of Americe and make her Great.

[mcam51]

Totally Agree with you GayStaggo. Obama will usher a new era for United States of Americe and make her Great.