Obama says race relations helped by Ferguson, Garner cases
Dec 30, 2014 18:37:43 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2014 18:37:43 GMT -6
Well, this is the forum for these threads, and this one seems almost historic in what I'd call disconnect and miscalculation.
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That strikes me as the kind of statement which he may well see events turn to regret. Like Bush's 'Bring it on' speech that he literally stated he regretted as one of his larger mistakes.
Yikes... To call what is happening out there a healthy way for this to surface is to forget how many are being hurt, killed in some incidents, and lives ruined by criminal records related to protest actions. He's awfully casual about the cost the people who believe in change are paying in all of it. That goes with people on both sides, for that matter.
In a National Public Radio News interview, Obama said that the case has put the spotlight on minority-police relations, which he called “healthy.”
He also said that debut of videos of police actions taken on mobile devices like phones in the Ferguson case, and that of killing by police of Eric Garner in New York, have helped to show a wider audience what minority communities see daily.
Asked if race relations have dived under his watch, the first African-American president of the United States said, “No, I actually think that it's probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided. But I actually think that the issue has surfaced in a way that probably is healthy.
He also said that debut of videos of police actions taken on mobile devices like phones in the Ferguson case, and that of killing by police of Eric Garner in New York, have helped to show a wider audience what minority communities see daily.
Asked if race relations have dived under his watch, the first African-American president of the United States said, “No, I actually think that it's probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided. But I actually think that the issue has surfaced in a way that probably is healthy.
brainfart
That strikes me as the kind of statement which he may well see events turn to regret. Like Bush's 'Bring it on' speech that he literally stated he regretted as one of his larger mistakes.
Yikes... To call what is happening out there a healthy way for this to surface is to forget how many are being hurt, killed in some incidents, and lives ruined by criminal records related to protest actions. He's awfully casual about the cost the people who believe in change are paying in all of it. That goes with people on both sides, for that matter.
