Title: Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union' (youtube) Source:
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Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union' (~37 minutes)
Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of race and recent remarks but of the fundamental path by which America can work together to pursue a better future.
I made it about five minutes into this. The world is on fire and he has time to all this time to talk about being black. Sorry, but it's not good enough.
I have long been disgusted by his church, so I haven't looked at the "firestorms" as an issue. I'm actually more critical of his association with Saul Alinsky.
The church. I didn't focus on the preacher very much. I do recognize why black Americans might congregate together that way. His years of attendance there are a strong indication of the kind of chip I'd rather not see being carried into the White house on the shoulders of the president.
His years of attendance there are a strong indication of the kind of chip I'd rather not see being carried into the White house on the shoulders of the president.
He discusses that too. Basically, he said the generation that Rev. Jeremiah Wright belongs to has this chip, they experienced forced segregation.
This speech displays Obama's lack of a chip, but his understanding of why some African-Americans do.
I do recognize why black Americans might congregate together that way.
The history of it is that Blacks originally congregated that way because the Methodist Episcopal churches where they went in the 1780s deemed them undesirable and chose to segregate them. Some were pulled off their knees and ordered to the back of the church. They left that church as a group and formed the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. After a series of lawsuits, they gained a victory in court against opposition, obtained a charter from the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, built a church, and opened in 1794.
Segregation and discrimination persisted for a while.