By
Keith WoodsSet aside the politics of
Sen. Barak Obama's speech on race if you can. Leave it to others to discuss how effective he was in quieting the fury around the red-hot words of his ex-pastor.
Focus, instead, on a powerful lesson in writing about race.
Obama's speech in Philadelphia confronted the controversy over the words of his former pastor,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose condemnations of U.S. foreign policy and powerful white people have been caught in an endless media loop on talk radio and cable TV. [
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