While you are entirely within your rights to oppose Obama's candidacy for his association with Reverend Wright, I think you missed the larger point of his speech, which is, "How do we discuss race in this country?" Your analysis seems to indicate that there is no discussion to be had at all, that it can merely be ascribed to a host of black pathologies rooted in their fixation with slavery. Even granting for a moment that there is merit in that argument, it ignores the portions of his speech that call for the black community to move beyond a simple relationship to that history, "embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. But it also means binding our particular grievances – for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans."  It seems he is explicitly moving beyond particularlism in this and other similar statements. How you construct a worldview of racist score settling based on those words, (not to mention any particular action) is baffling, except to conclude that Obama has some sort of "secret agenda" that Reverend Wright let out of the bag.