I am preparing an extended entry on race, religion, and politics in my own life and as a preface I have to share Obama's speech that he gave yesterday in Philadelphia very close to where I was born:
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Transcript is here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/18/america/18obamaspeech.php
This is truly historic.
For the record he wrote this speech himself and all his advisors were adamantly against his giving this speech.
