Obama reaches out for racial tolerance after pastor’s fiery speech

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Barack Obama bluntly addressed anger between black and white people yesterday in the most racially pointed speech of his presidential campaign.

Obama confronted America’s legacy of racial division head on as he tackled black grievance, white resentment and the uproar caused by incendiary statements by his long-standing pastor.

Drawing on his half-black, half-white roots he asserted: “This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.”