The Discussion on Race

Senator Barak Obama’s game changing speech on race relations in our country sparked a lot of talk about the speech itself, though mostly on what he didn’t say rather than what he did. A lot of the discussion on talk shows and blogs still focused on the controversial statements of Rev. Wright, whether condemning Obama for not outright repudiating his pastor or offering up videos that showed the reverend in a more ecumenical light.

Here in Nashville, a discussion of the speech and a subsequent discussion of race popped up on one popular local aggregator, Music City Bloggers. There are a suprising number of comments from a small number of readers, and, as one person noted in the replies, a dearth of African American voices (or for that matter, any people of color, Asian, Latino, or otherwise).

I hope that FREESTYLES listeners check into the blog linked here and that they will continue the discussion here and over there (mostly here, hopefully)