“We The People, in order to form a more perfect union”
On March 18, 2008, Obama stood and made a speech explaining both his opinions on race in our Society and also Reverend Wright’s sermons that spoke about this topic.
Obama Started off this speech by going back and telling about when our Declaration Of Independence was first written at Independence hall, which at the time off the speech stood right across the street from him. To him this Declaration was signed but still not finished. He goes on to talk about how this document contradicted our constitution, since in our constitution it states that all men are created equal, but yet the declaration still divided the colonies between the North and South.
After describing our Nations history, he then talked about his background and how he grew up, being the son of a black man from Kenya and a whit woman form Kansas, and about how he has family members from every race, and “every hue”
He then went to describing about his campaign, and how at times he was either deemed to be either “to black” or “not black enough”. And how that many people in our nation were fighting for unity still to this day. When he went to South Carolina he talked about how even to this day the Confederate flag still flies, but yet there is still unity between both black and white.
After all this he finally described his reverends sermons, as not wrong but divisive. And that at this time with two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis, and potentially devastating climate change we can not be divisive, since none of these problems are targeted to one race in particular, but targeted to all of us.