The Race and Politics speech

An utter triumph for the campaign and for American political discourse — finally, a credible public persona gets it right.  Brother gets up there and says, w/r/t racism and its devastating legacy of persisting injustice, that that shit is real.  But. . . the story can’t end there, and we’ll never move forward, whether as individuals or or families or congregations or as a society, without acknowledging not only that shit is real but that shit comes in different stripes, and afflicts all of us, and so can only be comprehensively overcome in efforts of unity and transformation.  Or, well, maybe you should just watch it yourself. Oh, and try to ignore the appallingly dull-witted CNN summary points at the bottom of the screen.  Full text here.