Obama More Perfect Union Speech Analysis

Isn’t it baffling how quickly our history has migrated through time? With nothing but progression and success as the key fuels to each road trip our society has grown from segregation to integration. When mentioning a “road trip” I’m not speaking of the kind you embark on with colleagues. No sir… I’m referring to each catastrophic event that has placed us where we are now; like MLK’s fight to nullify racial tension, or Mahatma Gandhi strife against societies view on civil rights and freedom. Another event that has impacted our progress as a nation would have to include president Obama’s More Perfect Union speech. Not only did he address the controversial issues presented, he depleted any lingering doubts of his ability to fairly run the nation
I do believe that the anger and resentments are counterproductive, because the division and inequality still exist in America. Which implicates that our nation wont undergo any dramatic change in progression overall as a nation, until we learn to live like one. The More Perfect Union speech brought out many points that can support my theory, which Americans should all take into consideration. In the speech, Obama emphasized the importance of unity, thus showing Americans that we should overlook our ethnic backgrounds and join together as one. When Obama said, “This is where we are right now. It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.” (Obama's March 18, 2008, para. 37). He was giving us a great example that our nation is still suffering to move forward due to race. Even though Obama won that election he faced an abundant amount of racial tensions and disbelief. Not only from whites, but blacks as well. What if president Obama had crashed under the racial pressure, mixed with the high tension and attention that running for presidency requires? Then history would’ve never played out how it did, and certain milestones would
Even though the racial history of our people have been “legally” situated by the government, that doesn’t mean the people of this nation have mentally done the same. Race is what plagues contemporary America. Over two hundred years ago a document was signed. Promising, no, guaranteeing that every man was entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This document founded that all men were created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness). When it was written, the Declaration of Independence guaranteed every man that he shall not be denied certain rights by the government. If our rights were given to us by nature, better yet God, who are we to interfere with what our Lord deemed possible? Who is the government to place regulations on certain unalienable rights? Who are we to judge and regulate the actions of someone due to their race? It isn’t humane, and from my point of view I think a trans-racial society would do this nation much good in the aspect of limiting counterproductive