https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl how he managed a more perfect union en-us 2017-11-02 11:52:28 UTC 2025-12-03 11:54:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202848078 This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign - to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous america.]]> 2017-11-02 11:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202848078 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202849073 Two hundred and twenty-one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched america's improbable experiment in democracy.]]> 2017-11-02 12:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202849073 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202850779 Excerpts of racially charged sermons by his former minister and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who for 20 years pastored Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, were all over the news.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202850779 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202851489 “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America,’ ” Wright said of African Americans in a 2003 sermon. “No, no, no, not God bless America. God damn America.”]]> 2017-11-02 12:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202851489 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202852402 Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202852402 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202852558 The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least 20 more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202852558 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202854099 And this belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. But it also comes from my own story. I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived and serve in Patton's army during World War II and a white grandmother that worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202854099 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202854586 I have family of every race and every hue scattered across three continents. And for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202854586 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202855206 Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202855206 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202855553 It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional of candidates. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts -- that out of many, we are truly one.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202855553 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202855948 On the other end, Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation and that rightly offend white and black alike.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202855948 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202856098 For some, nagging questions remain: Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in the church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely, just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagree.

]]> 2017-11-02 12:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202856098 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202867314 Sen. Barack Obama Addresses Race at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia . (2017). Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2 November 2017, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031801081.html?sid=ST2008031801183]]> 2017-11-02 12:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202867314 sszlachcic5882 https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202867739 chief legislator that creates legislation for the government. Barack Obama created his speech "a more perfect union" for the legislation of ending racism. he wanted to make an equal, judgement free world and to live in peace.]]> 2017-11-02 12:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sszlachcic5882/za5wr8uexujl/wish/202867739