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Obama defends Black Lives Matter movement
Fox ^ | 10/22/2015

Posted on 10/23/2015 5:54:02 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities, adding, "We, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously."

Obama said the movement, which sprung up after the deaths of unarmed black men in Florida, Missouri and elsewhere, quickly came to be viewed as being opposed to police and suggesting that other people's lives don't matter. Opponents have countered that "all lives matter."

At the conclusion of a White House forum on criminal justice, Obama said he wanted to make a final point about the nexus of race and the criminal justice system before launching into his defense of the movement.

"I think everybody understands all lives matter," Obama said. "I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' was not because they were suggesting nobody else's lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities.

"And that is a legitimate issue that we've got to address."

Police relations with minority communities and the deaths of unarmed black men have been topics of great interest since the shootings of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012 in Florida and 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Those deaths, and others of black women, have inspired protests around the country under the "Black Lives Matter" moniker.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: stopblackviolence
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1 posted on 10/23/2015 5:54:02 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Blacks are being replaced by illegal aliens in the job market all over the nation.

So what do the Rats do?

Come up with fake stories to perpetuate victimhood and keep blacks on the plantation.


2 posted on 10/23/2015 5:55:05 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Altura Ct.
"And that is a legitimate issue that we've got to address."

Who the hell is 'we'?

3 posted on 10/23/2015 5:56:08 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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...what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities.

Like majority on assistance, fatherless children, rampant drug use, crime, murder of their own...

4 posted on 10/23/2015 5:57:20 PM PDT by digger48 (ars)
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To: Altura Ct.
All lives matter Obamalamadingdong.

You of all people have no room to lecture others.

5 posted on 10/23/2015 5:57:50 PM PDT by Vision (Why does everyone pretend that Obama is mentally well?)
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To: Altura Ct.

Victimhood


6 posted on 10/23/2015 5:58:32 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Altura Ct.

“I think everybody understands all lives matter,” Obama said. “I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that’s happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities.

...

Like rampant criminality.


7 posted on 10/23/2015 5:58:48 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Vision
Black Lives Matter' was not because they were suggesting nobody else's lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities.

It's called crime and an entitlement mentality.
8 posted on 10/23/2015 5:59:03 PM PDT by Vision (Why does everyone pretend that Obama is mentally well?)
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Blacks teach their children that to succeed in anyway in school is unacceptable because it means you are trying to act white...

Great plan assholes,


9 posted on 10/23/2015 5:59:44 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: Altura Ct.

Worth clicking on the link to watch Sheriff Clarke educate Goggle-Eyes Colmes.


10 posted on 10/23/2015 5:59:54 PM PDT by digger48 (ars)
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To: Altura Ct.
"And that is a legitimate issue that we've got to address."

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.

11 posted on 10/23/2015 6:01:14 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Altura Ct.

— “I think everybody understands all lives matter,” Obama said. “I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter.-—

That IS what YOU were suggesting, but we fought back. You overreached with your stupid slogan. Now you will reap the whirlwind, because we’re not putting up with PC BS anymore.


12 posted on 10/23/2015 6:02:01 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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FU BO


13 posted on 10/23/2015 6:03:50 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: DanielRedfoot
Blacks teach their children that to succeed in anyway in school is unacceptable because it means you are trying to act white

And then they wouldn't be able to dance or put a ball in a hoop.
14 posted on 10/23/2015 6:04:17 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: Altura Ct.
...the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' was not because they were suggesting nobody else's lives matter.

To the Bogus POTUS: Then why were they repeatedly intolerant of any suggestion that all lives matter?

15 posted on 10/23/2015 6:04:29 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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Useless idiots


16 posted on 10/23/2015 6:05:22 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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This pResident and his ‘wife’ could have done a lot for the black community, but they didn't...

He could have worked with a lot of the black men and shown them why it's important to get a good education, and work hard to make your family a well respected part of the community...he didn't; he was to busy playing golf....

She could have taken the women and children and helped them with education, home making, a lot of things that are available to people...she didn't; she was to busy trying to ram down our children's throats food her dog wouldn't eat and to busy jet setting all over the world on OUR money...

IMHO, they both have failed the Black Community; the people of the United States and everything else they have came in contact with....

17 posted on 10/23/2015 6:05:39 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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Blacks teach their children that to succeed in anyway in school is unacceptable because it means you are trying to act white...


Some blacks do that but not all blacks do that.


18 posted on 10/23/2015 6:05:59 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Blacks are only 12% of the population but commit 50% of the murders, and 93% of the people they murder are black.

I think I see the problem.

19 posted on 10/23/2015 6:07:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the pope Catholic?)
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To: TigerClaws
Blacks are being replaced by illegal aliens in the job market all over the nation.

So what do the Rats do?

Come up with fake stories to perpetuate victimhood and keep blacks on the plantation.

Exactly.

20 posted on 10/23/2015 6:12:59 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The Democrat debate was audtiton to see who would wear the American jackboot. Ted Cruz)
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