Checkout this link to the full video of Obama's groundbreaking speech on Race in America. I actually expected this to be a response to controversial and anti-American remarks by Obama's pastor, but it turned out to be a honest, thoughtful dialog on race in America.
My favorite quote (This was in response to calls to disown his pastor):
"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother -- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Fact: people are complicated, that’s just the way the world is. We really get into trouble when we try to reduce people to just good or evil, black or white. Its just not that simple.
This speech is about 40 minutes, but you should definitely watch it in its entirety.
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