But the voice was a little too familiar. It was just too strange. The fact that Gore shouted this sentence with true disgust was tough for me to reconcile. I went over to CNN's Web site and found a video of the entire speech , which is well worth your time. That does not mean that we ignore difference.
Race is always present.
It is far from easy to acknowledge and celebrate differences while simultaneously transcending them, because differences among people automatically carry the potential for unleashing the human impulse to compare, to magnify whatever feelings of insecurity, or abandonment, or loss each individual feels in his or her soul. They tell us time and again that their brothers disrespected them, when actually they feel their fathers disrespected them by abandoning their mothers. This isn't what we usually hear from Washington, because the pollsters and scamsters tell the politicians that Americans simply don't have the stomach for challenge. And this is why I listened to Gore's weirdly emotional sermon in a way I haven't listened to a politician since Vaclav Havel. This is one speech, and it may well be nothing more than a slick Elmer Gantry routine designed to fill a slow news day's TV broadcasts.