reaction to Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union"

Barack Obama's speech about race and how to work on a more perfect union addressed problems that many like to pretend do not really exist anymore. It is easier to do that, and much less scary to think that the nation that we are living in has changed to the point of equality for all that live within it. Obama said, 50 years after Brown v.s Board of Education many of our schools are still segregated which means they are much weaker than they could be." We still have much further to go to eliminate racism, we have gotten so so far from slavery but the minds of some still spew hate. Instead of simply being angry and blaming different groups and classes of people we should be getting to the root of the problems and asking why.
This speech expresses what race means in this specific moment in time by reminding people that we can go further and further away from the way America was when we believed in slavery. This speech reflects on what it is like to be African American in this country because it is for many a silent struggle. Obama was saying that he does not hear the topic of racism come up when he is around his white friends but in the barber shops and occasionally on Sunday's. He also mentioned that the most segregated day is Sunday.