FistOfThe North
Senior Member
Originally posted by Devil King
What makes you think it was one of the greatest speeches on racism, ever?
That it was given, and significantly, and particularly emphasized by a person whom is running for the highest office in the most powerful and wealthiest nation that ever was, kinda makes it so.
To me it was very impactful. He said what he said with candor (the way, the only manner, this issue should (always) be addressed. Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, were not immune to the speeches blatancy. He made it clear that racism is still needs to be tackled, that it's still around just as profoundly as it's was before it's just now it's subtle. And that went for all races. You gotta love how he he used his influence and made everyone aware that there is an embedded, living issue, that we've all caused or have unnecessary burdened ourselves with generationally or mentally. And that issue is racism. Period. Which has done nothing but stagnate all races involved socially. From it's deliverers to it's receivers. Cause everyone ultimately, in some way, ends up being negatively impacted, naturally.
To me, In that speech, like Perseus holding up Medusas live decapitated head, he unveiled racisms' ugly face, and held her by the hair, for all to see in a way i've never seen along the lines of rhetoric, turning stone hearts into puddy, and by someone as influential.
I wish he spoke with a bit more passion or flare but that's ok. The message was epic, to me. Know why? Cause it was pro-human, truthful, and in your face.
In fact i can't even remember any speech given on racism given by a public official at all much less an influential one while i've been alive. (And no, Bush's pathetic 2006 n.a.a.c.p. appeasement speech doesn't count.)