![]() ![]() ![]() Obama renounced black nationalism without giving up black pride, which he said was in the great American tradition of self-reliance: They did it by appeal to the finest traditions of the nation, with hope for the future of those traditions. They had to do this without engaging in divisive attacks or counterattacks. 1 I noted that both men had to separate themselves from embarrassing associations-Lincoln from John Brown’s violent abolitionism and Obama from Jeremiah Wright’s black nationalism. President Obama at the Tucson memorial service, January 12, 2011ĭuring the 2008 presidential campaign, I wrote in The New York Review a comparison of Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race with Lincoln’s Cooper Union address during his own 1860 campaign. ![]()
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