When was the last time you saw a white guy, in a major forum, go off against racism so heartily, as the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka does here? Andrew Sullivan is right — it is moving, and the seeds for something profound could start to germinate in this election if we really want it to. Trumka’s speech is all the more affecting because of the blue-collar nature of it, that it’s not totally polished or driven by intellectual reasoning. In Hollywood studio speech-writing, this might not quite fly. But it’s real, and of the world. And by the time Trumka reaches his voice-raised (near-screaming) climax, you feel the passion and force of his words. For those pooh-poohing the notion of hope, or mockingly wondering what “the fierce urgency of now” means, this is it, concentrated.