I'm Black and I'm Proud

Life imitates art:

"For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. But it also means binding our particular grievances – for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans -- the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family" -Barack Obama, March 18, 2008

"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud." - Jimmy Rabbitte, The Commitments (1991)

(If you want to hear some of the Commitments, go here and hit the play for "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" or "Destination Anywhere")