"Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout" - BARACK OBAMA--The Most Important Speech of a Generation

After two weeks of sliding into a racial cesspool highlighted by repeated airings of flippant and ignorant assertions by Hillary Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro on one hand and incendiary snippets from sermons Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright on the other, Senator Obama instantly redefined the Presidential campaign on Tuesday.  He spoke in Philadelphia forthrightly about race in America without hiding behind any illusions or mincing any words.  He spoke in terms not merely to “bridge the racial gap”—how many politicians have uttered empty platitudes on that topic—but to engage it. He urged American—Black, White and Brown—to share their anguishes and their hopes so that they may find common ground to address the problems that they all share.  We must embrace the notion that “Your dreams do not have to come and the expense of my dreams.”  Powerful stuff.  And perhaps the most important American political speech of a generation.

Here it is in its entirety.  Please Listen.