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Just finished listening to the speech as posted at Daily Caller. Its a speech about poverty, not race. As for Katrina his says its an issue about poverty, not race.
The person who wrote associated article is heavily spinning the speech. As an example.
This theme — that black Americans suffer while others profit — is a national problem, Obama continues: “We need additional federal public transportation dollars flowing to the highest need communities. We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs,” where, the implication is, the rich white people live. Instead, Obama says, federal money should flow to “our neighborhoods”: “We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods, so people don’t have to travel from miles away.”[LEFT]
Read more: VIDEO: Obama speech praises Wright, attacks feds on Katrina | The Daily Caller
Obama didn't reference black people, he reference poor people. Our neighborhoods being the neighborhoods were poor people live, so they can better access the newly created jobs.
Agree with his ideas or not. However it was not a speech about race, it was a speech about poverty.
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He kept talking about "our neighborhoods" about how blacks could have done the whole New Orleans clean up if they had been trained beforehand. He kept on through the whole speech talking about the little girl who was shot while in the womb in LA during the riots. He kept coming back to that one.
At one point he lost his place on his notes, I guess, when he stuttered and stammered around and said that the Iraq war was costing $275 million per day. I am sure he knows enough to see that that number would mean $27.5 trillion in 100 days. I wonder if you saw the whole speech like I did at Daily Caller.
And because he is black "our neighborhoods" must be referring to black people specifically? He was referring to poor neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods could contain people from all races.
I have posted the Daily Caller article that has the whole speech and people can see really what he did that night. Especially what he said about Rev. Wright and people can see why he kept talking about the little girl born with a bullet in the elbow. It is great to hear him talking about the LA riots as if they were only blamable on the white people.
WS the undertones of that speech are quite evident hence the reason those parts were removed from the one posted to youtube 5 years ago.
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I'm not even sure if "undetone" is the correct term:
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“America will survive. Just like black folks will survive. We won’t forget where we came from. We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, or 15 years ago, or 300 years ago."
WS the undertones of that speech are quite evident hence the reason those parts were removed from the one posted to youtube 5 years ago.
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I'm not even sure if "undetone" is the correct term:
I've only seen the full version, so my impression is from the full version.
Its clear he is talking about poverty and how to combat it. Part of breaking the cycle of poverty is to help people acquire the tools and skills they need to take control of their own lives. Since the audience was largely ministers, I imagine that the deal a lot with poverty.
It was given at Hampton University, a historical black college. The audience was most likely primarily African-American. I think it is remarkable how few references to African Americans or racism there were in the speech. It would be like going to AIPAC conference and barely mentioning Israel.
Why would an eloquent Harvard educated lawyer feel the need to change his usual intelligent speaking demeanor to a 3 word cadence style? Did he think his audience wouldn't be able to understand him if he didn't dumb it down?
To me, it was rather insulting to the audience members to be talked down to like that.
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