A More Perfect Union

In the remarks on A More Perfect Union Senator Barack Obama discusses the issue of race identity in foothold of American society. Barack Obama describes his life stressing the role the race has played in his life. It is kn let that if Obama wins Presdiential elections, he will induce the first Afro-American president in the US history.Obama touches the questions of slavery, declaration of independence in Philadelphia and origins of democracy in America. Declaration of independence in Philadelphia played crucial role in promoting democracy as farmers, scholars, patriots and statement were provided with opportunity to express their negative attitude towards slavery, discrimination, tyranny and inequality.Declaration of independence became the first step on the bulky road to democracy, freedom, liberty and universal human rights. (Obama, 2008)Through struggles and protests, through civil disobedience and civil war, American citizens do a successful attempt to narrow the gap betwee n empty words and reality of the duration they lived in.Therefore, the most important idea of the speech is that all citizens of the United States should be provided with full rights and obligations despite their color, spectral preferences and beliefs.Obama says that US Constitution is the ideal for citizens as it ensures their legal rights, and opportunities. It is Constitution that promises all citizens liberty, freedom, justice and union. Obama adds that union should be perfected with time.Therefore, Obama views the task of his campaign as one which will continue the long march of to more than just, equal, free American nation. Obama says that he decided to run for presidency as he believed that challenges couldnt be overcome unless they were solved together and unless the union was perfected. (Obama, 2008)Obama stresses that we have different hopes, but all of us ar striving for better future sharing similar hopes. Obama argues that we whitethorn not look the like and we m ay not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. (Obama, 2008) Obamas beliefs, according to his words, are rooted in his own story. Obama tells he is the son of a black man and white woman from Kansas.Obamas grandfather survived drop-off and helped to raise Obama. Obama says he visited the best schools in American, and, at the same time, lived in one of the poorest nations. She is married to an African-American women and blood of slavery flowed within them. Obamas life story has taught him that a nation isnt just now a sum of genetic make-ups. Instead, nation is sharing common hopes and prospects for better future.Obama says that racial tensions are seen in all spheres of life. Even he is often labeled as too black or not black enough. In South Carolina there are powerful coalitions of African-Americans and white Americans. Blacks and whites are equally offended and it should be sto pped. Obama shares his experiences at Trinity.He says that Trinity is embodiment of African-American community as similar to different African-American churches Trinity offers services which are full of bawdy humor and raucous laughter. Obama says that Trinitys church is full of dancing, shouting and clapping, as well as it combines kindness and cruelty, struggles and success, intelligence and ignorance, love and bitterness, etc. All these components build the experience of Africans in America. (Obama, 2008)