Obama Racial Speech

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The Toxic Power of Racism

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted March 26, 2008 | Politics


Dr. Dean Ornish

Like many of us, I was inspired by Sen. Barack Obama's recent eloquent speech on healing racial and other divisions in this country. His words resonated with my personal experiences. In 1981, for example, when my friend and I moved to Boston to start our medical internships at Massachusetts...

Barack Obama on the U.S. Constitution

William Hogeland | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics


William Hogeland

Voters of many persuasions have viewed Barack Obama as coming from the left. Yet in his March 18 speech, addressing both his relationship to the black activist preacher Jeremiah Wright and the history of slavery and race oppression in the United States, Obama hymned the creation of the U.S. Constitution...

A Letter to Howard

Henry Bean | Posted March 23, 2008 | Politics


Henry Bean

Howard,

In these quisling replies to Obama's remarkable speech, in the evident terror from both the GOP and the Clinton campaign that they are up against a potentially great man who must, therefore, be destroyed, we encounter again, in a different form, the politics of hate. This is hate...

Obama's Real Challenge: Shifting the Collective Consciousness

Pamela Gerloff | Posted March 23, 2008 | Politics


Pamela Gerloff

"Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing happened." -- Winston Churchill

Churchill's words about the human propensity to ignore the truth that is right in front of us reminds me of the mainstream media's response to Senator Obama's speech...

Barack Obama's Test...And Ours

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted March 23, 2008 | Off The Bus


Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

TANANARIVE DUE

What a difference a week makes.

The Friday before Good Friday, I began my weekend with a sick feeling in my stomach that returned every time I switched on the news. Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, was everywhere. The pastor's incendiary remarks...

My Take

Rebecca Walker | Posted March 23, 2008 | Politics


Rebecca Walker

I've been trying not to write about The Speech, but since a billion trillion people have asked for my take, I decided to offer it up:

I read the speech transcript because I couldn't bear to watch pundits with as much courage as Obama has in one thumbnail rip it...

Some Blues for Mr. Charlie: Obama's Moment of Truth

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted March 21, 2008 | Politics


Rev. Peter Laarman

It probably had to happen. Maybe better now than later. But still profoundly depressing to see that the practical effect of The Speech was to push down Obama's numbers significantly among Democratic voters, according to Gallup.

I do not fault the candidate for campaigning on the premise of a post-racial...

TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech

Mayhill Fowler | Posted March 21, 2008 | Off The Bus


Mayhill Fowler

Cable TV and its various punditocracies don't want a more perfect union. Television news, like all theater, captures its audience through dramatizing conflict. It thrives on discord. Resolution and unity are fifth act business; news shows run in a continuous loop between acts three and four. This generalization is unfair...

The Good Radical Within

Bill Parent | Posted March 20, 2008 | Off The Bus


Bill Parent

One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger. It's real stuff. It is shared in some measure by many if not most African Americans...

Obama's Theology Of Reconciliation And Perfection

Gene Koo | Posted March 20, 2008 | Off The Bus


Gene Koo

While Senator Obama's address on Tuesday has largely been received as a call to national dialogue about race, the 37-minute speech also revealed much about his religious and spiritual views. In it, Obama clearly invokes core Christian principles and beliefs, from original sin to God's grace. "Perfection" was his refrain...

Obama Speech: Religious Groups, Universities Respond

NY Times   |   March 20, 2008 09:13 AM


The speech Senator Barack Obama delivered Tuesday morning has been viewed more than 1.6 million times on YouTube and is being widely e-mailed. While commentators and politicians debated its political success Wednesday, some around the country were responding to Mr....

My Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Tavis Smiley | Posted March 19, 2008 | Politics


Tavis Smiley

Earlier today, I spoke with distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. about yesterday's speech by Barack Obama on race in America.

My full conversation with Dr. Gates airs tonight on PBS.

Read more HuffPost coverage and...

Jon Stewart Gets All Earnest On Us! Obama Race Speech "Spoke To Americans As Though They Were Adults"

Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 19, 2008 06:34 PM


Jon Stewart and the Daily Show gang have had easier targets of mockery than Barack Obama delivering one of the most warmly received speeches of the campaign (if not that most warmly received speech — though it's duking it out...

The Meanings of Obama's Speech

Drew Westen | Posted March 19, 2008 | Politics


Drew Westen

I watched Barack Obama's speech yesterday morning intently. The "pre-game show" of cable commentators predicted a somewhat grim outcome. What could Obama say that could possibly overcome his association with the words of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Would he throw his pastor on the train tracks? And even if he...

The Media Needs to Fess Up to Its Mess and Its Responsibility: Time for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to Take a Look

Michael Yaki | Posted March 19, 2008 | Media


Michael Yaki

Yesterday's speech by Barack Obama was extraordinary. Yet there are those who believe it will cost Obama the presidency, if not the nomination. And if the media continues to have its way, I fear it will.

In my 20 years in political life I have never quite seen, much less...

A More Perfect Union? Yes, We Can

Lecia Shorter | Posted March 19, 2008 | Off The Bus


Lecia Shorter

Senator Obama gave a speech yesterday which will most likely be considered one of the most brilliant, profound and transformative speeches of his political career. The speech not only forced me to acknowledge my own anger as an African American, but I was forced to consider the genesis of the...

Olbermann on Obama: An Audition For President

Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 19, 2008 08:12 AM


Howard Kurtz's "Listen, dude, do you really want the sex?" segment was so good, someone else had it five days earlier: Dan Abrams and his crew -- including the same clips in the same order from the same reporters.
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