At a pivotal moment in his contest with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Barack Obama has delivered a speech on race. Speaking at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Obama spoke in the context of controversial comments by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama spoke of racial tension and inequality in the United States and called on the country to move beyond its “racial stalemate”. The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided by his presidential campaign. A More Perfect Union “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an…