Obama at the NAACP Convention: Racism's Real, Deal With It

The first black president tells the NAACP that they control their own futures.

It’s classic Obama, in that it rises above the fray of an old debate by declaring everybody the winner. In this case, the shouting match he wants to end surrounds the question of opportunity. Do individuals or the inequalities into which they’re born matter most? The president comes down squarely in the middle—or, to borrow as he did from MLK, it’s both/and. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Milo Smith - Jul 20, 2009 - 1:37 PM PDT
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