Posted on 06/03/2020 4:24:49 PM PDT by Libloather
On a Wednesday afternoon livestream, President Obama delivered an optimistic message about the protests gripping the nation in response to police violence: “There is a change in mindset that’s taking place,” he said.
.@BarackObama: "There is something different here." We're witnessing “a far more representative cross-section of America out on the streets, peacefully protesting…That didn't exist in the 1960s."
In a town hall, organized through My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative he launched as president, Obama acknowledged that while the last few weeks have been “difficult, uncertain, and scary,” we are also living through “an incredible opportunity for people to be awakened” to the ongoing reality of structural racism—”the result of a long history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and redlining.”
He called on every mayor in the United States to review police use-of-force policies
“This is not an either/or,” he said of protesting and pushing legislative reform on the local level. “This is both/and.”
Comparing the discord and unrest of today to that of the 1960s, Obama said we’re today witnessing “a far-more representative cross-section of America out there on the streets protesting” than existed in the past. He credited the organizing and engagement of young people with forging popular support among a “broad coalition” of Americans regarding the need for transformative change in police use-of-force tactics. And he pointed to the “Guide to Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing” that came out of a task force he convened as president, stating that mayors and police chiefs across the country have been too slow to implement the report’s recommendations.
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We started My Brother’s Keeper so that every boy and young man of color in America would know that their dreams mattered as much as any other child’s.
https://www.obama.org/mbka/
Yeah, there’s hope burning down cities. Hope and change.
All of the obamas are overt racists.
JoMa
“peacefully protesting“
Pushing the MSM lie. tell that to the dead and injured and owners of businesses burning to the ground.
When whitey kneels to us in prayer - I see hope.
When we allow rioting and looting and call it good - I see hope.
Now please donate to my church.
Yeah, well, “of color” only means one. No Asians, no Indian, no Hispanic, no Native... and of course no white. Then, of course, it looks like they don’t like girls and young women either (nope, not going there)
Obama is showing his ignorance again. There were plenty of ‘diverse’ people demonstrating on behalf of civil rights in the 1960s.
How about the dream of inner city youths going to the school of their choice? Does that count too, Obozo clown?
These are a never ending gift from Obama/Holder
Yes, very different, like the October Revolution.
I’ll tell you what is different.
What is different is that Democrat Mayors and Governors are openly supporting rioting mobs.
That is what’s different.
And it is rotten to the core.
I'm pleased he's admitted there is no real divide and that all of this is orchestrated manipulation of the weak minded and looter class.
+1
Well,there are a few banks...and police cars...that have been firebombed.
How about the outer city dream of inner city kids knowing their father’s name, and it’s NOT Uncle Sam
I see peaceful protests here with a lot of different peoples. Peaceful. Not rioters. But it’s a small town with folks who go to church and school together and love each other and each other’s children. This would have been a battleground in the 60s and 70s. With God all things are possible.
Eventually they will run out of white people to blame
Maura Healey is the bull dyke Attorney General of Massachusetts.
As in steal "both" TV Sets "and" a set of wheels.
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