About nine years ago, on March 18, 2008, in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama gave his “A More Perfect Union” speech during the presidential candidate race. Obama gave this speech due to the controversial comments that his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, had said which received attention. He speaks of the racial issue, that’s been around for a long time, in America and how both, African Americans and Americans, races have built tension over time due to racial inequality. In the beginning of his speech, Obama gives the audience context of what he’s going to speak upon like the constitution, the sin that the constitution was based upon, and the progress that’s being made to the constitution. For example, Obama brings up the idea of the constitution
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He then touches upon the African American experience, which includes topics like segregated schools, legalized discrimination, and lack of economic opportunity. For example, Obama brings up the Brown v. Board of Education case and how they have provided low-quality education. Not only was education affected, but Obama touches on how African Americans weren’t granted the right to own property, and couldn’t collect significant amounts of money to leave to future generations. Obama then says that these factors have consequences which lead African-Americans to build up anger, but not only does Obama speak about African-American’s being angry but he also brings up Americans build up anger as well. Obama continues his speech by speaking upon how most hardworking, middle-class white Americans don’t feel like they’ve been privileged by their race. Obama states that their experience is like the immigrant experience which Obama describes nobody’s handing them anything, that African-Americans have a better advantage, and how their jobs are being shipped oversea. He continues this idea by saying that black and white anger are both counterproductive, which distracts the attention of the real crooks of the middle-class. This blocks the path of understanding; which Obama says it’s a racial
He then touches upon the African American experience, which includes topics like segregated schools, legalized discrimination, and lack of economic opportunity. For example, Obama brings up the Brown v. Board of Education case and how they have provided low-quality education. Not only was education affected, but Obama touches on how African Americans weren’t granted the right to own property, and couldn’t collect significant amounts of money to leave to future generations. Obama then says that these factors have consequences which lead African-Americans to build up anger, but not only does Obama speak about African-American’s being angry but he also brings up Americans build up anger as well. Obama continues his speech by speaking upon how most hardworking, middle-class white Americans don’t feel like they’ve been privileged by their race. Obama states that their experience is like the immigrant experience which Obama describes nobody’s handing them anything, that African-Americans have a better advantage, and how their jobs are being shipped oversea. He continues this idea by saying that black and white anger are both counterproductive, which distracts the attention of the real crooks of the middle-class. This blocks the path of understanding; which Obama says it’s a racial