Sunday Meeting, September 14
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Room 408
Colloquy: Love. Virginia Arnold presides.
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Rooms 507 & 508
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Auditorium
Barack Obama and the Prospects for a Post-Racial America
Dr. Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs
Anne Klaeysen and Curt Collier preside
The 2008 presidential election is the most crucial national election since 1968, when the deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy led to the election of Richard Nixon and the beginning of conservative domination of the presidency for four decades. This talk analyzes three critical issues:
- An assessment of the presidential candidacy of Illinois Senator Barack Obama to date, what Obama represents politically and in terms of public policy, and how he would probably govern if elected;
- An analysis of Obama’s “nonracial” campaign – his slogan is “Race Doesn’t Matter” – and an assessment of his statements about race;
- A comment on the necessity for America to transcend its racial divide, and how a democratic culture might help to eradicate racial bigotry.
Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of Public Affairs, History, and Political Science and Director of the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University. He is the author and/or editor of 25 books, including Seeking Higher Ground: The Katrina Reader (2008); Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives (2007); Living Black History: How the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future (2006); and The Great Wells of Democracy: Race in American Life (2002).
