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Its a paradox of Barack Obamas presidency: The first African-American to run the country finds himself in the tensest racial confrontation of his tenure, but is constrained from addressing the nations original sin in anything but the loftiest, most dispassionate terms.
Weve made extraordinary progress, in race relations, Obama said on Monday, addressing the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., over the police shooting of Michael Brown, but we have not made enough progress.
That observation is so obvious as to be anodyne, but Obama has good reason to confine himself to Joe Friday generalities in the face of the discordant street demonstrations, belligerent police tactics and unfinished official investigation in Ferguson.
Ever since he first judged that the Cambridge, Mass., police had acted stupidly in 2009 by arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own doorway, Obamas most candid comments on race have been just as likely to inflame a significant segment of public opinion as to soothe it.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/barack-obama-ferguson-race-110165.html#ixzz3AtMvp7e7
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)heard this on msnbc.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)than actually go.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)For extra protection. All it takes is armed Teabaggers who would love to "take back their country", and a few cops who agree with them.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)Anything he has to say is going to be in generalities about being nice to everyone.