Yin and Dang

The full text of Obama's speech today on race and US race relations is worth reading in its entirety. Yet again, he's put a voice better than my own to thoughts I've had for a long time. Reading it gave me chills. Imagining those words coming from a sitting President made me want to cheer out loud, and imperil the pipetting of my colleagues.

I suppose it should come as no surprise that the soundbite of choice is the most mundane moment of all -- the part where he addresses his personal relationship to Wright, rather than the part where he puts the country front and center, and offers a prescription for faith and perseverance. But even that moment is pretty great, particularly if you watch it on the New York Times video website, and then let it fade into the next segment, which is GWB talking about the economic crisis and thanking his economic advisors for WORKING ON THE WEEKEND as the economy rains down around our heads.


JEK
Obaman(a)ut, believer in better things, under-invested in the Euro