Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Obama's speech on race

I know it's exam week, and people have things to study for, but if you're done or procrastinating, you need to watch and/or read Obama's speech on race from earlier today.

It's awesome. Beautiful. Brilliant. Etc. I'm very glad I watched it instead of studying for my contemp african worlds final, because I'm pretty sure it'll stick with me a lot more than the stuff from that class.

The only real issue is that it's like 37 minutes long. But if you've got time, watch it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

the irony of that statement? not too much?

Julia Kluger said...

I was blown away by this honest speech. I am so happy that Obama has FINALLY addressed this issue.
Even the NYtimes, which has endorsed Hillary, praised his speech.

Lily Becker said...

Yeah his speech would have been touching if he hadn't followed it up the next day with saying "typical white person"... what a fiasco.