President Obama has pushed back against criticism that he has not been aggressive enough in talking about issues of race and justice, particularly involving African-American men. If you look at after what happened with Michael Brown, if you looked at what happened after Trayvon, if you looked at the decision after Eric Garner, Im being pretty explicit about my concern, and being pretty explicit about the fact that this is a systemic problem, that black folks and Latinos and others are not just making this up, Obama told BET in an interview earlier this month. I describe it in very personal terms. The president told People that he applauds the efforts of other prominent African-American athletes and celebrities to speak out against police brutality using the I Cant Breathe slogan, inspired by the case of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after he was put in a choke hold by a New York City police officer. President Obama has not directly weighed in on the case. Read on... (y) Barack Obama
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:03:59 +0000
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