Obama Addresses Homophobia, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia Among Black Americans | The New York Observer

Obama Addresses Homophobia, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia Among Black Americans | The New York Observer: "In a speech today at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.served as pastor, Barack Obama talked about the existence of institutional racism, the sensationalizing of race 'by the media' and the creeping of race as an issue into the presidential campaign.

But Obama's speech will likely be remembered for his calling on the black community to do its part to fight homophobia, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

Obama says in the speech: 'We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them,' and 'the scourge of anti-Semitism has, at times, revealed itself in our community,' and 'for too long, some of us have seen the immigrants as competitors for jobs instead of companions in the fight for opportunity.'"