Barack Obama’s recent speech on race in America invites Americans to try and be honest and respectful about their feelings on race relations in the US. This topic will be presented in two parts. The first (this one) will give a little context around the speech and start to delve into it a bit.
Part 2 will be for personal experiences and discussions.
Politics?! In this blog?! Believe it! Of course, you can choose to ignore it, but just remember that it’s important.
So here’s a little bit of trivia about me: When I was in college, my major was not a typical engineering major like Computer Science. Instead, it was, believe it or not, Political Science. Throughout my childhood and into high school, I had always found politics to be fairly intriguing. So the plan was to take Political Science and go on to law school, like so many lawyers before me. Obviously, that career track didn’t quite turn out the way it was originally intended, but I’m not complaining about that!
The upshot to me caring so much about this particular topic is that I end up getting excited around election season. Primary season is especially interesting if you want to see the best and worst of politicians in action. My opinion, if you’re interested, after the jump.