Obama’s Speech: Yes And No To Jeremiah Wright

Drudge has a copy.

“I can no more disown him (Wright)than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.“

It’s a startingly revealing speech, and it makes me admire him.  I can’t help but think his loyalty to the black traditions (see post below) and honesty about his own experiences are enough to make us all better off.

I’d rather have him be honest than president (if that’s where this should happen to lead, which is by no means clear). 

Can Obama just shed Wright and move on…and if he won’t…will this change many voters’ minds?