Meeting in the Rose GardenUPDATE July 16: See Obama's speech here.
Obama will be in New York to speak July 16 at the NAACP convention. Obama will speak at 7:30 pm eastern. CNN.com or msnbc.com will probably live stream it.
In the video below, Al Sharpton speaks on Obama's appearance. He also speaks on the recent discrimination experienced by children, who were thrown out of a pool because they were black and Latino. Sadly, we are nowhere near post racism. I learned a lot about that during the 2008 campaign and watching Sarah Palin rallies. But younger people are far more enlightened than the older folks and it may be a matter of time. I believe it all comes down to our public school system. The more educated someone is the less likely they are to be racist. Bigotry is a sign of stupidity, though there are people who are smart, some Congress members come to mind, yet still racist. That has a lot to do with age and where they grew up. The South still has a lot of work to do.
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