President Obama " spokefFor more than 17 minutes, he spoke without notes (transcript here), a wide-ranging examination of the scourge of black children killing each other, the historical impacts of poverty and dysfunction, the pain of black parents on seeing their sons tarred with a broad brush, his own experiences as a black American who has scared old ladies with his very existence. He discussed statistics; he discussed history; he discussed the unequal treatment black men receive in the criminal justice system — or “the intersection of race and the law”; he reflected on the sociological factors that pressure the inner city, with empathy, while not turning his pointed gaze from black boys’ greater likelihood of being involved in violence and crime. In sober, measured tones, the president spoke poignantly about race in America, ending on the hopeful note that his children’s generation is “better than we are. [...] [K]ids these days I think have more sense than we did back then, and certainly more than our parents did or our grandparents did, and that along this long, difficult journey, you know, we’re becoming a more perfect union — not a perfect union, but a more perfect union.” Read more at wonkette/523204/fox-bloggers-respond-to-obamas-speech-on-trayvon-martin-with-dismay-that-president-is-black#veJK6Ab2DwGVbpQW.99
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:30:53 +0000
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