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Middle East Notes and Comment: Justice is a Virtue
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Mar 6, 2009
The most pivotal speech President Obama gave in the 2008 presidential campaign may have been the one he gave on race in America. In March 2008, attention was focusing on sermons that Obama’s pastor had given seemed to reflect racism, intolerance and a paranoid hostility to the very government that Obama was seeking to command. The airwaves were full of criticism. Obama responded with a nuanced speech in Philadelphia that laid out his own understandings of race, diversity, and the continuing imperfection of American society. The speech not only defused the issue; veteran newspaper columnist David Broder suggested that it was the most important speech given on race in America in four decades.
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