Well, thank you very much to American media for focusing on the real issues. After Barack Obama's monumental speech on race and how this is the crucial time for a dialogue to begin so that our nation can solve problems that it has ignored, the American news media did us all the favor of playing clips of the speech without having any idea what Obama's message was. It must take a lot of talent to focus on the important issues in a way that completely ignores the important issues.
It's enough to give anyone an aneurysm. So thank you, American news media, for making my head explode.
It's enough to give anyone an aneurysm. So thank you, American news media, for making my head explode.
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"For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle -- as we did in the OJ trial -- or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.
"We can do that....
"That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, 'Not this time.' This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time."
On second thought...
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