Barack Obama

make a national fool of himself?

The most remarkable thing about this speech is that it is the first time that black men’s humanity and personhood have been the subject of a public conversation at the highest levels of government. By stepping into Trayvon Martin’s shoes, President Obama asked the nation to see him, in that moment, first, as a black man, as the kind of national subject who had been subject to racial profiling, to the sounds of locked car doors as he merely walked down the street, to women (many of them white women, I suspect) clutching their purses and holding their breaths while riding the elevator with him.

I have feeling that the Martin Family doesn' think too much of tavis' posturing for tavis.

Brittney Cooper could certainly see that zimmerman is a racist..

"George Zimmerman and his gun have demonstrated more aptly than any figure in recent times what the acute and severe convergence of systemic and individual racism look like together. And this means that we must organize, we must march, we must legislate, and we must resist. But it also means that the nation must begin to see black people, like Trayvon Martin, and Jordan Davis, and Marissa Alexander, as human beings who are worthy of protection and care."

Mahalo, babylonsistah