'the Purpose-driven Life' Is Not Just A

Today, Public Understanding Of Our Past And Our System Of Government Is Pitifully Low.

Our Commitment Should Be To Leave Our Environment In Better Shape Than When We Found It, Our Nation's Fiscal House In Better Order, Our Public Infrastructure In Better Repair, And Our People Better Educated And Healthier. To Indulge In Immediate Gratification And Exploitation Is An Insult To Previous Generations, Who Sacrificed For Us, And Thievery From The Next Generation, Who Depend On Our Virtue.

My Grandfather Was A General In The Nationalist Chinese Air Force During World War Ii, And I Grew Up Hearing The Pilot Stories And Seeing Pictures Of Him In Uniform.

If Half-black Barack Obama Had Decided Years Ago To Call Himself White - Which His Genes Certainly Entitled Him To Do - His Story Would Have Carried Very Different Meaning. If Millions Of Part-black People Had Followed Him Into Whiteness, Then The N.a.a.c.p. Would Be In True Crisis.

In The End No Segregationist Scheme Has Withstood The Force Of A Simple Idea: Equality Under Law.