This could be a defining moment, not just of the Democratic primary or the 2008 national election, but in the history of our country. Rarely do politicians speak as frankly as Barack Obama did today. My hope is that his speech perhaps turned the tables in Pennsylvania and that he will defeat Billary there, thus ending the Democratic primary and allowing the race to move completely toward the general election.
This campaign was never about race. Now it is thanks to Obama!
Okay, yeah, if Obama wasn’t in the race, E, it wouldn’t be at the forefront. We wouldn’t be talking about theology that has been around for ages, but ignored because it doesn’t show up in our church, we wouldn’t be talking frankly about the overt racism of many and the private prejudice of us all, we wouldn’t be on the brink of hailing a man as our commander in chief who just 50 years ago many of us denied people who looked like him access to our diners and equated to a chimpanzee, and who just 150 years ago could have been traded like a cow and treated like a dog. Thank you, Barack, for being black and making us talk about race as a nation – not behind closed doors and not filtered through political correctness. Thank you, Barack, for being black and showing us what progress really means – for the aspirations of us all and the country as a whole.