Live from America's Better Self: Walter Hett: A Readers' Guide To President Obama's Amazing Congressional Black Caucus Speech:
A September night... a rousing valedictory speech to the famed Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)... awareness is setting in about how adroit and blessed Barack Obama has been as our national leader....
The President in his remarks took an unusual tact for him: the first black President, Barack Obama openly reclaimed his history and legacy and put it firmly in the history of race in America. He shared the historic challenges of a historically oppressed community formed in America when they were imported to be slaves—humans sold as property, controlled without rights for the benefit of the privileged. He described how this historical beginning was a force within him and within the community itself. How it gave birth to a driving passion for justice. Because of this remarkable precedent, his speech deserves a close reading...
