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Originally Posted by graciegirl
THAT comment by Obama could have been backed up with a lecture on following the orders of a police officer and a lecture on NOT breaking the law and that lecture could have been addressed to EVERYONE. He said that Trayvon Martin could have been his son. I understand his identification and sympathy, I think most of us do unless we truly are haters. But I believe that his comments WERE encouraging to many of the protestors. I think you believe that there are a lot of police that shoot to kill MORE when a person is black. I don't think it happens often. WHAT DOES HAPPEN way to often is that young black youth are crossways of the law more than young white youth are. Statistically.
I think what we should be doing and what President Obama should be doing is addressing the reasons WHY so many young black youth are crossways of the law. Being angry at the reasons WHY that is happening. Recognizing that young urban poor are breaking the law brings shame and more shame, but the shame is warranted.
We really had been heading in the right direction and now we are ALL heading in the other direction. You cannot legislate morality but you can stand as a leader and tell what is wrong and direct people to see when they are wrong. The last few speeches have been more emphatic about the grand jury being the way the law is written, but it wasn't emphatic ENOUGH. Too many protestors didn't hear it.
It is time for the young urban poor to have a good example. I think some of our new immigrants MAY be the good example. I am very tired of the excuses of so many to not do right. They are shaming all of the good people who have managed to rise above the awful prejudice and laws that segregated and held them back.
We can't change being white or black, but I feel that we have in place a reasonable law based fairness that would enable ALL people to make their way and support their families without breaking the law.
If you want to be rich in this country, no matter what your color is, you have to rise early and work hard and delay gratification and if that doesn't work, get another job and work harder. If people look down on you, prove them wrong.
I think that the majority of the population is pulling for the minority who has not been treated fairly in the past. We elected as a nation, a black president.
I think that the sympathy that the president showed has caused the problem to escalate and we are experiencing tensions that could escalate to a war between races.
Mrs. Obama could have chosen a better project than improving school lunches. She could have walked among the poor and talked to them about what she knows about being black in America and help encourage and direct them. Eleanor Roosevelt did just that kind of thing as first lady..
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Nice article. I would add that being overly politically correct is angering whites and is causing more devide. Everyone needs the whole truth, not the media spin.