Barack Obama, our first black president, doesn't like talking about race. He wants his presidency to be remembered for fixing the economy, installing a national healthcare plan and building a new foreign policy, not the color of his skin.
But the original sin of racial discrimination never stays out of our national conversation for long, and last week even Obama couldn't duck the subject. By an accident of scheduling, he spoke Thursday to the National Urban League, one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations. It was only a week after the embarrassing episode of Shirley Sherrod, in which Obama's administration forced a black official to resign over a bogus charge of reverse racism.
Here's what Obama said: "We've made progress. And yet, for all our progress … we were reminded this past week that we've still got work to do.
"We should all make more of an effort to discuss with one another, in aObama and a racial dialogue - latimes.com
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