OH: Obama addresses personal, institutional responsibility in NAACP speech
9:18 AM
From the prepared text of Barack Obama's Monday night speech to the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati:
So yes, we have to demand more responsibility from Washington. And yes we have to demand more responsibility from Wall Street. But we also have to demand more from ourselves. Now, I know some say I've been too tough on folks about this responsibility stuff. But I'm not going to stop talking about it. Because I believe that in the end, it doesn't matter how much money we invest in our communities, or how many 10-point plans we propose, or how many government programs we launch -- none of it will make any difference if we don't seize more responsibility in our own lives.Journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates is not impressed with coverage of the speech.
"That's how we'll truly honor those who came before us."
I'll be very interested to see if we get another "Obama Scolds Blacks" headline from media folks. ... I find those headlines depressing. It says a lot more about media, and possibly -- though I'm not sure of this -- the broader country, than it says about Obama's speech.SPEECH COVERAGE:
*Cincinnati Enquirer: Obama: Demand more
*Dayton Daily News: Obama credits civil rights pioneers in NAACP speech
