"Your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams"

Huffington Post has the text of the Obama speech on Jeremiah Wright.

I'm not optimistic enough to believe that the remarks will quiet the fury, but what a moment for his campaign and candidacy. I have difficulty imagining a more eloquent or more direct response to the questions surrounding Wright's more offensive sermons, or a more open and relatable admission of the complexities of our - of all of our - intimate relationships.

And to hear Obama, "the post-racial candidate" speak of race, acknowledge race, in a way that both recognizes the causes of tribalism while appealing to the capacities of our better nature to transcend it, is to wonder what took him so long.