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Barrack Obama’s Father's Day speech was a breath of fresh air. The state of the black family is such a sensitive matter that only a Black person can raise the issue. People tiptoe around the issue when discussing urban policy or anti-poverty initiatives.

Sean Braisted takes issue with Clint Brewer on the strides Barack Obama can make in Tennessee by merely showing up in the state:

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Obama celebrated Fathers Day today by speaking to a Black Church in Chicago. Various news sources including The New York Times, USA Today and The Associated Press gave accounts of the speech. Here are snippets of the speech:

“Too many fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too
many lives and too many homes,”

A woman in Pennsylvania speaks her mind:

"I don't think our country is ready for a black president," Susick, who is white, said in an interview in the paint store where she works. "A black man is never going to win Pennsylvania."

Sean Braisted calls a spade a spade when it comes to a certain immigration restrictionist Vandy professor’s hypocrisy on the immigration issue:

Racism rears it's ugly head

Racism rears it’s ugly head

MTSU student Danielle Ross is mentioned at the the beginning of a Washington Post article on what her and her fellow campaigners have experienced while working for Barack Obama.

WaPost:
“The first person I encountered was like, ‘I’ll never vote for a black person,’ ” recalled Ross, who is white and just [...]

An MTSU sophomore, Danielle Ross, was quoted on MSNBC in an article on racism in the current political primary process. She too off from college to campaign for Barack Obama and was in Muncie, IN, working the people on street corners and at a Wal-Mart.