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Barack Obama

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2. I like how it starts out, Scotty..

Reply to UrbScotty (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 11:02 PM

Jul 2013

"Despite persistent attempts by some to divest the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman tragedy of its racial resonance, the president refused to allow it."

Everything in between and how it ends..

"That’s why there was value in the president of the United States acknowledging his “two-ness” on Friday and connecting with Trayvon Martin — because we can never lose sight of the fact that biases and stereotypes and violence are part of a black man’s burden in America, no matter that man’s station.

We could all have been Trayvon."

I'd like to post this link in your thread from bigtree.. as it has more commentaries in it as well as Charles Blow's. You've probably seen them but just in case..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3301912

Mahalo for posting this in the BOG, Scotty..

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