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It’s about Time: Obama telling it like it is

Section: Politics

Sam D.

Sen. Barack Obama in a speech on Tuesday addressed the latest surrounding controversy about his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright giving his speech to the Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. The Sen. rejected the racially charged comments, but explained the root of them. Some of the pastor’s of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago old sermons came under fire after a news report last week put some of his most controversial comments on You Tube and created an episode. Speaking to a diverse, small crowd, Obama told the crowd about his upbringing as “the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas.” Standing stage front with only 7even flags behind him not a crowd of people he said “I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible,” “It’s a story that hasn’t made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts—that out of many, we are truly one.” Obama admitted he had heard to remarks and said “Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely—just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you disagreed.” He went on to say that the remarks “were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity.” Obama also stated that just like the comments taken out of context by Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro, so have Wright’s comments been done the same. "The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through -- a part of our union that we have yet to perfect." He told his audience that "to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns -- this too widens the racial divide and blocks the path to understanding." Here is my spin, we all have to look within ourselves and ask the question be you African American, Caucasian, Asian, Latino, or whatever your historic decent maybe you have to ask the question are you doing everything within you power to help the racial divide widen or close. It’s time Americans to close this gap and look at your brothers and sisters as human beings and they’re are two types of people in this world good and bad. Your race have nothing to with that my friend. Live life and treat others as you will have them treat you.