For The First Time, Obama Addresses Race As A Source Of Socio-Ecconomic Division

Obama confronts the liberals' greatest skeptics: white people. ""The opportunity gap in America is now as much about class as it is about race," and that "we have to reject a politics that suggests any effort to address it in a meaningful way somehow pits the interests of a deserving middle class against those of an undeserving poor in search of handouts."...What's important is Obama's decision to address race as a potential barrier to collective action. As far as I can tell, it's a first for his presidency." Jamelle Bouie in The Daily Beast