Listen Up America
Turn off your television sets and stop listening to the media's 30-second soundbites of whether Barack Obama sufficently distanced himself from Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the comments he's made about racism in America. Throw out your newspapers and ignore the steady steam of rhetoric of anti-American pundits who claim to know better than you do. Turn off your radio and free yourself from the barage of partisan politics of the left and right.
Listen up America!
You can make up your own mind. You don't need to be told what to think.
Think for yourself.
You can do it!
Invest 37 minutes of your life and listen to what Barack Obama says.
I'm not sharing this with you because I think you should vote for Barack Obama, as I would personally find it difficult myself to vote for a man as liberal as he is (although I think he'd be better than Hillary). Neither do I do support Barack Obama. That's not my point here. But, I do believe he deserves a fair hearing in your life without the distorted interpretations created by his enemies. And, I do believe he has a valuable message to share with all Americans.
His message is called, "A More Perfect Union," delivered on March 18, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA
"But what we know — what we have seen — is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope — the audacity to hope — for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past, are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds — by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper.
In the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world’s great religions demand — that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Let us be our brother’s keeper, Scripture tells us. Let us be our sister’s keeper. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well." – Barack Obama
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