Obama blew it

In my considered judgment as a race and civil rights specialist, I would say that Barack Obama's "momentous" speech on race settled on merely "explaining" so-called racial differences between blacks and whites -- and in so doing amplified deep-seated racial tensions and divisions. Instead of giving us a polarizing treatise on the "black experience," Obama should have reiterated the theme that has brought so many to his campaign: That race ain't what it ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
2.5
by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece assumes that race is not an issue in America. The writer waits "in vain for our hybrid presidential candidate to speak the simple truth that there is no such thing as "race," that we all belong to the same race -- the human race." America is no-where near being a color-blind society, and acknowledging this is simply stating the reality of relations in this country.

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