How might history judge Obamas race speech?
The reaction to the speech already shows how a speech lives beyond the event itself. The meaning of a speech does not come from a speech itself but from the meaning its audiences build of it over time. It’s the talk about the talk, the talk about the speech, that ultimately matters. Once the speech is removed from the context of this current party struggle, it coud very easily find a new life and a new context as it is recast in the future for future interests and purposes. Just like Gettysburg, the speech lives beyond the event.
The reaction to the speech already shows how a speech lives beyond the event itself. The meaning of a speech does not come from a speech itself but from the meaning its audiences build of it over time. It’s the talk about the talk, the talk about the speech, that ultimately matters. Once the speech is removed from the context of this current party struggle, it could very easily find a new life and a new context as it is recast in the future for future interests and purposes. Just like Gettysburg, the speech lives beyond the event.
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