Obama's speech on Race

Obama's speech on race given in Philadelphia 18 March 2008, ranks alongside the great statements of equality made by Jefferson, Lincoln and Martin Luther King for its importance in American history and politics. Dr Thomas Milton Kemnitz contends that the speech should be studied also for its use of language, poetic devices and allusion. His books: An Issue This Nation Cannot Ignore is a classroom edition of his analysis and A More Perfect Union is for general reading. Both published by Royal Fireworks Press: http://rfwp.com

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[jugjimcos]

Great talk. I recommend the book by Tom Kemnitz from Royal Fireworks Press

[Neejan1]

Very helpful! Thanks.

[Gracelandification]

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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,"

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

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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.'

[Gracelandification]

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.'