Amen

The casket of Rev. Clementa Pinckney sits beneath the podium as President Barack Obama delivers the eulogy during his funeral service, Friday, June 26, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Just mesmerized by Obama’s tour de force eulogy in South Carolina. Words can’t really do it justice, which you know if you were watching the live speech and Twitter simultaneously.

I don’t know if it was the history-making of this week — gay marriage and health care for all — or the history-remaking of this week — the lowering of Confederate flags — that made us primed for such a speech. But from the tragedy in South Carolina came his most resounding speech, his most uninhibited confrontation of race in America, and his most uninhibited self-expression on the public stage.

You can — and should — watch the whole thing here.

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