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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I doubt that the Civil Rights movement of the mid-20th century would have been successful at all, without the substantial support of White America.
The ‘something different’ is that those people - both Black AND White - were not burning, looting and causing mayhem.
(MLK may have had his faults as an individual man, but he also did a lot of good work.)
Obama’s got to be one of the heavy betting favorites to be the Antichrist
obama and eric holder ran Fast & Furious where weapons were given to Mexican drug cartels. They wanted them to murder as many people as possible as their sick thinking thought that Americans would blame gun ownership. Over 400 men and women and 16 school children were murdered along with a American border agent. The democrats are willing to commit mass murder for what they want which is power over you.
Obama can go to hell.
The Democrat Party,”Magic Negro”, Ex-POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama and his retarded, failed, criminal VP, Sleepy Joe Biden, did absolutely Nothing, Zilch, Zero, Positive, Productive, action for African-Americans in their entire eight years in office...period!!!
Fact is, Truth be known, The Magic Negro, Barack Hussein Obama has absolutely no magic at all for any African-American. In fact, Obama kept “His Brother & Sister African Americans locked on the Obama Economic Slave Plantations., where he could control them all!!!
Well, the 60's hippies are now the governors and mayors.
Obama plagiarizing again. This time Buffalo Springfield.
What do you expect from a community organizer.
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