Posted on 02/27/2015 8:25:32 PM PST by PROCON
(CNSNews.com) - "Next week, Michelle and I and the girls will be traveling to Selma to pay tribute, not just as a president or a first lady or as African Americans, but as Americans -- to those who changed the course of history at the Edmund Pettus Bridge," President Obama told a gathering at the White House on Thursday.
Obama mentioned the "legends and giants of the civil rights movement" as well as "the countless American heroes" who aren't named in the history books, all of whom marched and sang and organized "to change this country for the better."
He also thanked Trayvon Martin's parents for attending the White House reception marking African-American History Month: "Today, on the third anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death, showing all of our kids -- all of them -- every single day that their lives matter, that's part of our task," the president said.
Three days ago, President Obama's Justice Department announced that it would not file federal civil rights charges against the man who says he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense.
During Thursday's event at the White House, Obama noted that "progress in this nation happens only because seemingly ordinary people find the courage to stand up for what is right. Not just when it's easy, but when it's hard. Not just when it's convenient, but when it's challenging."
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I can smell it coming.
MLK's birthday is just too peaceful across the fruited plain.
Leni
ROTFLMAO!!!
A thug died a few years ago..let me shed some tears..nah, nothing’s coming out..meanwhile, Obama says that all kids lives matter..except the ones in the womb, they get aborted
Hands up! Don’t shoot! ......oh, nevermind, that was another fabricated local crime story.
Criminal black president remembering dead criminal black young punk.
Somehow fitting. Disgusting but for him, fitting.
I did.
COLUMN: Three years post-Trayvon: What has changed?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3259825/posts
Trayvon was a scum thug that deserved the bullet he got.
Well, give me a Ping next time Bro..:-)
Is there another Trayvon I don't know about?
One blow of 17-year-old, 6 ft. tall, 170 lb. Trayvon Martin’s fist put the unsuspecting George Zimmerman flat on his back, his head bruised by the concrete sidewalk, Martin astride his torso, his pounding blows to Zimmerman’s face continuing. Somehow, Zimmerman was able to retrieve his pistol from a jacket pocket and fire a single, well-placed shot, ending the mayhem and preserving his life.
Only minutes prior to this unexpected assault on his person, Zimmerman had ceased surveillance of the residential area on the order of the Sanford police dispatcher, who was in constant voice contact with Zimmerman. His return to his automobile was immediately interrupted by Martin.
The dispatcher had informed Zimmerman that a police patrol car was being dispatched to the scene, and it did arrive almost simultaneously with the fatal conclusion of the Martin/Zimmerman struggle.
Background: Trayvon Martin, having committed two felonious criminal offenses on the property of the Miami-Dade high school, offenses kept “in-house” by school officials and not reported to the municipal police, had been expelled from the school and sent by his parents, who resided in the Miami-Dade school district, to live with a female friend of Trayvon’s father in the gated community about 200 miles distant, where Zimmerman participated in the neighborhood watch organization, the physical assault on his person occurred - - - and Trayvon Martin’s life ended.
But, the news media in he last few days has been portraying Saint Tray-von as a twelve year old again!
Every Democrat I talk to says the same thing.They will never vote in a so called Black President again.
Senator McConnell, are you listening? This bozo ought to be talking to you.
“...progress in this nation happens only because seemingly ordinary people find the courage to stand up for what is right. Not just when it’s easy, but when it’s hard. Not just when it’s convenient, but when it’s challenging.”
His black son was murdered he was on the ground dying while the illegal alien shot his hands were up , then shot in the head for the kill shots.
but as blast Obama only he get press had a white cop or white person would Obama cared
The people who fought for real needed change may begin to take offense at being compared to a thug who was shot by the person he was trying to beat down.
This honoring of thug culture is such an affront to decent, law-abiding black people.
woudla been nice had he instead stopped by Zimmerman’s house, and his parents house, and told them how sorry he was that some thug punk kid tried to murder him in cold blood
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