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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About time people acknowledged the police were arrested and charged.
The Left is in Panic Mode.
we need a constitutional amendment to tell ex president to STFU
“There Is Something Different Here”
Not really. Same crap and filth as the 60’s riots just a different generation of pukes. Communists are pretty consistent through the years. The only difference I see is that in the 60’s mayors and governors actually pushed back.
So is he telling them to keep on rioting?
I figured he’d be upset about not getting the chance to chow down on that puppy.
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“We had to destroy the village to save it.”
Well said!
“the most poisonous form of disorder is the mob incited from high places”
She really said that? Dear God in heaven!
Former democratic president sees hope in rioting and looting and killing of cops
You’re surprised? You don’t get to Massachusetts much,do you!
It didn’t in 2015.
You are seeing white people joining in 2020, because in the age of Trump, we have become a more integrated society.
Plus, we have something here that was clearly a crime, and nobody is arguing about it. It is easier for both sides to be together when nobody is trying to claim things that didn’t happen.
This is why the left is sending in people to cause trouble, because they need us divided.
The difference is a civil rights movement is being high-jacked by a wave of Anarchists who need to be shot, along with their evil corrupted leaders who just want to use the anarchists as their useful idiot army to gain back power.
This is the dem party cornered.
What is that the size of the flat screens.
My sister lives in Massachussetts. So unfortunately I have gone there quite a bit.
She lives on Nantucket - a bit different from Boston.
He is actually absolutely right about it. Here in Portland it is about 90% whites protesting. Same in many other cities. That was not the case in the 1960s.
“There Is Something Different Here”One of these things is not like the other:
It's so strange that the more lenient policing, DAs, courts and judges become, the more crime and disregard for law there is. Odd, isn't it?
Reminds me of the schools. The more lenient the discipline, the greater dumbing down of the curriculum, and the reduced expectations of the students, schools turn out more and more stupid people. Another curious oddity.
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