Obama: Brushing the "Dirt Off His Shoulders"

Did anyone catch the "Conversation About Race (Meeting David Wilson) Special on MSNBC last night?

Hello Family and Friends, (I wrote this post on another website, but I feel its necessary to add here as well)...

Did anyone catch the "Conversation About Race (Meeting David Wilson) Special on MSNBC last night? It was a live telecast at Howard University. It was a great discussion and great forum for students, faculty and other residents of the Washington DC area to chime in on about "RACE RELATIONS". This "Conversation" has become of hot topic every day as Mr. Barack Obama inches closer to the Democratic Nomination, as well, as the Presidential Nomination.

“Meeting David Wilson” tracks Wilson’s journey to North Carolina to meet David B. Wilson, a descendant of the white Southern family that owned his ancestors during the slavery era. David's journey was eye-opening. Working with Nancy Carter Moore, a genealogical researcher, he learned that his family had been enslaved for three generations on vast plantations across North Carolina and Virginia belonging to the wealthy Wilson family.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23760280/

On the panel last night was:
-Tom Joyner (The Tom Joyner Show)
-Michael Eric Dyson (author and Georgetown University professor
-Malaak Compton-Rock (an entrepreneur and wife of comedian Chris Rock)
-Rev. DeForest Soaries (a prominent Republican activist)
and many more, such as Washington DC's police chief, Kevin Powell (activist, 1st Real World),etc..

One of the questions posed was "Does America owe all black people an apology for slavery"?

So, my question to all of you... Do we? Who would make the apology to make it feel better? Are Reparations in order? What are you thoughts?

Moment of Silence for MLK Jr. (Excerpt of Barack Obama's speech)

You know, Dr. King once said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but that it bends toward justice. But what he also knew was that it doesn't bend on its own. It bends because each of us puts our hands on that arc and bends it in the direction of justice.

So on this day – of all days – let's each do our part to bend that arc.

Let's bend that arc toward justice.

Let's bend that arc toward opportunity.

Let's bend that arc toward prosperity for all.

And if we can do that and march together – as one nation, and one people – then we won't just be keeping faith with what Dr. King lived and died for, we'll be making real the words of Amos that he invoked so often, and "let justice roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."