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writer/editor James D. Schwartz is a 27-year old Internet Architect and part-time University student living and working in downtown Toronto. He is passionate about hockey, computers, lifelong learning, politics, peace, history, equality, reading, writing, and traveling. You can contact Jim @ jim_schwartz9@yahoo.com View my LinkedIn Profile.
Quote Quote of the week:“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” Barack Obama
todo list . Study Chinese . B.Comm degree ('06-09) . Read the Bible and Quran . Volunteer abroad . Skydiving . Marriage & Kids . Write a book
completed list . Snowmobile the Rockies . Hong Kong & China . Vancouver, Whistler & Banff . Los Angeles & San Diego . Competed in a triathalon . Puerto Rico . Motorcycle to Maritimes . New York City . White Water rafting . CompSci Diploma . Las Vegas Road Trip . Offroad Jeeping in Utah
Obama is not your typical politician. He speaks truths in an honest and open way without trying to paint a perfect picture of himself. In his recent speech about the Racial divide in America, he talks about the anger that exists in the United States in both the Black community and the White community. He speaks about the history of those tensions and where they come from and why there is anger and frustration on both sides of the spectrum.
If you have 37 minutes and 39 seconds, I urge you watch his latest brilliant speech. I don't know if I've ever seen a Presidential candidate as open and honest about the issues that exist between races.