orichalcum

So Barack Obama just gave this big speech on race in America. It was eloquent and passionate and thoughtful and actually addressed both white and black racism and the underlying anxieties beneath both of them.

However, he also quoted _his own book_. At length.

Maybe you have to be a faculty brat turned professor to realize that Obama was shaped not just by his multicultural upbringing and the streets of Chicago, but very, very much by the ivory halls of the University of Chicago law school. :)