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He's done everything he could have done. Barack Obama forthrightly and honestly touched on all of the issues of race, from all sides, that a human being could possibly be asked to do. He opened up the dialogue of race that so many, supposedly, have been asking black Americans for for so long.
He also presented this country as it was, good and bad.
To me it was one of the most amazing speeches I've ever seen. Seeing him standing up there, controlling himself, disavowing the statements but also explaining the awareness. Vocalizing what we as a country need to do to move forward.
Now it is up to us. Only we have the answer. It's time to see if we really stand for what we say we stand for. I have never been prouder of Barack Obama, as a black man and as an American than I am today. It's time to see what we really stand for.
