Barack on Race
Rather shockingly I have as of yet failed to post a link to this speech.
It really is superb. He addresses the damage and difficulties caused both by the racism endemic in American society and the “Positive” discrimination enacted in order to diminish it. Many would simply have ditched their spiritual mentor for the sake of politics and it almost certainly would have fortified Obama’s position more reliably if he had of. But in instead delivering a speech this fine he will hopefully achieve even more.
Obama seems to offer something entirely new that neither of the others in the race are capable of. This speech reminded me that for all the talk of him being “Black” he is in fact of dual heritage and mixed blood. The amount of harm that the conventional view of race would be done by this and the amount of good towards racial miscegenation would be immense, not because of who he is but how unimportant he makes it seem.