If you have not seen Barack Obama's speech on race in America today, take 37 minutes and watch it. It is probably the most important public utterance on the subject of race since Lyndon Johnson's "We shall overcome" speech on the Voting Rights Act:
Tonight on the evening news (I switched back and forth between ABC and my old favorite, CBS) the question seemed to be whether Obama had got beyond the issue of Jeremiah Wright. I hope that this is just another example of the bloviators hitting the obvious. The real question that Obama raises is whether America can move beyond the same-old, same-old pattern of discussing--and failing to discuss--the issues that race presents to the nation.
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