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Stanley Kurtz on Obama's speech. With me, you will get no perfect union on far Left-wing policies and judges. Count me out of that love-fest. My other reaction: Even if this guy is blowing up, he is sure dominating the news cycle.

Rush today (approximately): "People say Obama can heal racial divisions. I say that Obama is proof that they have already healed."

Are we being handed slick victimology? The points of the speech summarized, quoted at Q and O:

- Black people have reasons to be angry about slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing discrimination;

- Whites have reason to be unhappy with (pre-reform) welfare, affirmative action, busing, and being called a racist for worrying about black crime rates.

- Wright was wrong in both his racial divisiveness and his belief that American society was static, and progress was not occurring.

- whites needed to do more to raise up black schools and black communities.

Wait! Did he lose a page here - what, if anything is the black community meant to do differently?

Memeorandum has everybody's reactions.