Obama Speech March 18

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...

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a patriot and a man who loves his country.

Fox News has become nothing more than a propaganda arm of the right-wing. Host Sean Hannity is a friend of a known neo Nazi and unfortunately the "conservative agenda" is enmeshed with the "white...

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...

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...

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...

Commentary on Obama's speech has focused largely on his main theme of racism; yet the more perfect union he envisions is not merely about race relations becoming warm and fuzzy. As we interpret, parse or spin Obama's words, let's not succumb to the very problem that has surfaced in...

To many in the media, Barack Obama's race speech yesterday morning was strangely reminiscent of a moment involving Mitt Romney earlier on in the campaign season, when Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted? Let's review.

Obama spoke from...

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...