Assignment # 8

The Presidency

" For alongside our famous individualism, there’s another ingredient in the American saga. A belief that we’re all connected as one people. If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for their prescription drugs, and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it’s not my grandparent. If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America. The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too: We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq." 

The speech i decided to use was the C-SPAN: Barack Obama Speech at 2004 DNC Convention. During this speech president Obama makes a lot of great arguments regarding race. President Obama starts his speech by talking about his grandfather, he also mentions how he came from a middle class family that only inspired the best for him. Although, his entire speech was great something that stood out to me was when he said that his parents gave him an African name of Barack so that it can show  that in a tolerate like America your name is no barrier for success.  He also mentions that this country is a country of dreams that can indeed be done. And that this country has the ability to help people dreams comes true. Lastly, in my opinion the most powerful part of his speech was towards the end. When he mentions that America should not be an America should not be divided but instead we all need to come together and be a united nation that helps each other out.   


Barack Obamas last part of his speech was the most powerful. Although, he makes several good points while making his speech, when he mentions that we need to become united instead of being divided. I completely agree with him and I think he all his speech try to make people understand that we can become united and make this country a better country.