Obama Will Speak On Wright, Race, Future
The Atlantic reports:
Barack Obama plans a major speech tomorrow in Philadelphia on race, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the future.
An adviser said that Obama wants to contain the Wright story. He worries that the 1960s-to-1980s prism of race is what everyone has read into it, and Obama wants to move the discussion forward.
He is expected to recount, in detail, how he came to know Rev. Wright, how he came to admire Rev. Wright, the history and meaning of the Trinity church, and address the controversial remarks attributed to Wright.
He is also worried that Wright and church will get caricatured unfairly.