Obama: "We don't have the capacity to eradicate 400 years of racism in one fell swoop"Former President Barack Obama warned that people should not feel that this current unrest and the subsequent changes will address all issues facing black Americans, stating that the country doesn’t “have the capacity to eradicate 400 years of racism in one fell swoop" during his town hall Wednesday.
Obama quoted Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “arc of the moral universe quote” but added that the arc does not bend without work. “We bend it, all of you have bent it over the last four, five, six, 10 years and we are seeing the fruits of those labors in the degree of awareness that is out there,” Obama said.
To prove this point, he noted the array of people who are speaking out at this time, namechecking Jim Harbaugh, the head football coach at the University of Michigan. “That is not something that was happening five, six years ago, although Jim I know have been on the right side of this for quite some time,” Obama said. “You have unlikely participants because all of you have worked so hard to raise awareness, that is the progress that has been made, that doesn’t mean everything has been solved.”“We don’t have the capacity to eradicate 400 years of racism in one fell swoop.
HUMAN RIGHTS ? FREEDOM OF SPEECH ? EQUALITY? ? GREED? PROMOTING HATRED? VIOLENCE ? WAR MONGERING ? MISDIRECTION ? LIES ? FAKE? SATAN IN CARNIT ? RACISIM ? DOES THAT FIT THE PERSON WHO YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT IN YOUR MIND ?...………..WE ALL KNOW , RISE UP, STAND TALL
If you support 'equal rights' by forcing people to kneel, I think it's just like using the moral high ground to force homosexuals to love the opposite sex. This is not freedom, but a shackle of coercion.
Are all the criminals who looted, assaulted and killed police officers in custody. I guess those lives don’t matter. Total hypocrisy.
Y'all recall how Tupac Shakur was cuffed on the street & had his face smashed into the concrete several times by 2 white cops in '93? It was cops like these. Even If GeorgeFloyd didn't die, he would hav become a mental & emotional wreck from the incident like Tupac became
So.... the rioting can stop then. Right? 🙄
Hang all these 4 white officers at the same place where they killed George Floyd.!
Good news ...NOW WE WANT TO KNOW WHO'S RESPONSABLE FOR CORONAVIRUS. ?
People have sacrificed disfigurement by rubber bullets, pepper sprayed, gassed and terrorized by the police for 9 days for speaking out against injustice. We’ve worked too hard! Black people have been oppressed for 400 years! We’ve been fighting for 9 days. We can not stop now!
Good.
To protect them?
RadioPaparazi You see that chinko, help me slap am. Na him vex me pass
WHY CNN DOES NOT CONDEMN THE LOOTINGS?
TrueFactsStated
Were they charged with resisting arrest? Why not? Everyone else gets this bogus charge added when they are taken into custody, even when the arrest is unlawful!!! The fact that they were not charged with resisting arrest is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that this is a circus!
Now protestors need to stop now, for they have some justice now and see what happen and everyone make a huge big blue wave un November.
I hope the prosecutors in court are silent for the 8 minutes & 46 seconds to show how much time these cops had to quit killing George Floyd. He was restrained & was not resisting arrest. I hope they show how this man plead for his life. How he pleaded & cried he couldn’t breathe.
Local government officials took way too long to decide to react to their prior derelict retention of a known bad cop. Sadly, a man had to die and cities having no power to fix Minneapolis’ problem, derelict officials keeping bad cops on staff, had been ravaged for a week first.
Good
jacoker2 Too little too late
In my earliet tweet, explained people holding power should never misuse it & if they use it, they have to pay heavy price for it. Mr. Floyd is with God bc he was a noble soul. People who killed him for no reason must be severely punished. Sentence must be a lesson for the Police.
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ABOUT BLOODY TIME !! They all should have been cooling their heels immediately !!
Took them long enough
Wonder if the rioting and looting will stop.
maggieNYT I cannot take pleasure in this. Maybe I'm getting soft. What must it feel like to sit in a cell, knowing u have just destroyed any hopes u had for your life, because of your own stupidity/cruelty? To be shamed before the world!
If only the right thing was done from the start and the State wasn’t forced into doing the right thing!
They're just in custody. These cops murdered a barbaric and brutally innocent civilian beyond this murder.
In the middle of a pandemic these 4 pathetic men have turned the world upside down
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