Barack Obama's Speech on Race in America - FULL - 2008-03-18

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union."

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.

Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.

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[dw29376]

This speech will go down in history as one of the top 5 at least. What a absolute inspiration to people everywhere! Great speech, probably his second best behind the 2004 keynote address!

[biglatino4804]

wow you just hate him because he is black and deep down you know you are one racist fuck!!!! Next up is a latino thats going to be president of the United States of America :) I mean just think about it by the time your stupid kids are grown up the minorities of the United States will be the MAJORITY OF THE UNITED STATS LOL HAHA...i wouldn't doubt if spanish becomes the official language here in America within 100 years haha stupid fuck

[netttels]

RON PAUL 2012

[warmwarmerdisco]

I'd like to see progressive democrats rise the fuck up and use Obama and get shit done! OWS is not an answer to the tea party- this is obvious. The time is now prog dems if you're listening.

[TRHenrietta927]

;)nice

[RbMarsha606]

alright!!!

[4jDulcie175]

nice...

[bizzolizzo]

wtf is wrong with cyncism?!?!?!?! -___-

[Fashionificationful]

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,"

[Fashionificationful]

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.

[Fashionificationful]

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.'

[Fashionificationful]

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.'