Barack Obama, presidential candidate and former senate was put in a tight situation. He was forced to choose whether he wanted to make a PSA and denounce his connection between his pastor or with his individual belief. He decides to do neither and clarify that you don’t have to agree to everything a person does or says in order to have faith in them and that it’s okay to have your own opinion. While he says that he can be the key to America’s victory as a whole, he believes it’s also up to America to change and be respectable to each other in this speech.
Obama wants to reconstruct justice in everyone’s favor. In the past, fairness was in question, “The answer to slavery question already imbedded within our constitution that had at its very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law…” (Obama p3). Obama believes that the constitution wasn’t enough to effectively allow everyone to be treated equally in peace. For hundreds of years people of different minorities, mainly black have had …show more content…
Minorities often aren’t given jobs simply because of their skin tone, race or background. In some circumstances, people may feel like their dreams are slipping away from them. When the fact that you were born a certain way can affect the chances of you getting a job it may be tough. . “In fact a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working and middle class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privilege by their race’ (Obama pg6p3). For someone who has been privileged their whole life, equality could feel like cruelty and oppression. He also uses metaphors such as “racial wounds” and “the narrow gap between the promise of our ideals” to objectify the difference of how the racial divide influences the way both groups feel personally victimized or impacted as a
Obama wants to reconstruct justice in everyone’s favor. In the past, fairness was in question, “The answer to slavery question already imbedded within our constitution that had at its very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law…” (Obama p3). Obama believes that the constitution wasn’t enough to effectively allow everyone to be treated equally in peace. For hundreds of years people of different minorities, mainly black have had …show more content…
Minorities often aren’t given jobs simply because of their skin tone, race or background. In some circumstances, people may feel like their dreams are slipping away from them. When the fact that you were born a certain way can affect the chances of you getting a job it may be tough. . “In fact a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working and middle class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privilege by their race’ (Obama pg6p3). For someone who has been privileged their whole life, equality could feel like cruelty and oppression. He also uses metaphors such as “racial wounds” and “the narrow gap between the promise of our ideals” to objectify the difference of how the racial divide influences the way both groups feel personally victimized or impacted as a