Move Forward Now
- The point Obama is trying to make is that there's no tomorrow, no next year, no next election. We have to move forward now because there aren't any more excuses.
- Even when it's uncomfortable, we have to really listen when people "talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of Black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children" (146).
- If you haven't figured it out by now, one problem feeds into the next, which feeds into the next. Obama is trying to tell us that these things will continue to affect our children, and therefore our future, until we choose to actively stop them.
- The lingering issues related to race are indicative of deeper issues in our society: health care, "special interests in Washington," corporations, and veterans returning from war without proper systems in place to help them (150).
- But we do have the power to change all that, and Obama ran for office believing "with all [his] heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want," a country where true equality isn't something we have to struggle and fight for. (155)
- That is, a truly perfect union.