I was hugely impressed by Barack Obama’s eloquent ‘A more perfect union’ speech in response to the controversy of being deemed guity by association with the less the intemperate oratory of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
In the speech he rightly highlighted the fact that the legacy of discrimination in America is a reality that can no longer be ignored. Barak refers to the past is tragic, a burden and a blight which “haunts the nation“.
But he says that society is not static and spoke of needing to have the “audacity to hope” that the anger this situation arouses can be turned into something useful and productive – to overcome despair and cynicism and find ” a way out of no way” to break the racial stalemate.
We need this man in the White House.
