BHO: McWhorter weighs in

As if anyone is still thinking about the speech, but John McWhorter has a pretty interesting blog entry:

One workaday aspect of the speech was Obama’s fondness for referring to moving ahead rather than backwards, and one "forward" aspect of the whole event was the beyond-race, miscegenated air of the whole affair; it was café au lait, like Obama’s parentage. Café: when he got wound up, Obama started going "black" on his final vowels (listen to the way he lowered and softened the final -y sound on words like country and community--it’s very black church). Au lait: his wife and daughters have straightened hair--no matter what the Obamas mean about our getting past race, it would be considered distinctly poor P.R. for her to wear her hair natural.

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