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Editorial: Obama eloquently addresses race issues

It was a speech Barack Obama had to give. There was no way a black man within striking distance of a major party nomination for president of the United States was going to get much closer to the nation's ultimate political prize without, at some point, talking frankly about race in America.

Obama did that yesterday. He did it honestly. He did it eloquently. And the nation will be better for...

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