Candidates’ loyalties should lie with all humanity
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community,” Barack Obama said on Mar. 18 in his now famous speech about race. The speech directed attention toward his various and sometimes contradictory loyalties to different types of American communities. As I watched the speech on television, my mind wandered to the other candidates. Not because I wondered what would happen if they found themselves a member of Wright’s congregation (a silly question, especially in light of the speech) but rather because I realized that all seem compelled to prove their loyalty in some...
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