DAmn, that is scary! The crowd in the background sent chills up my spine.
“Many believe that the country is too racially polarized to build the kind of multiracial coalitions necessary to bring about massive economic change.”
“These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ‘em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.”
0bama December 8, 1995.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/