I'll just point out some of the elements of his statement that I found to be entirely full of crap:
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
Well, it couldn't have been your son because he would have the full protection of the US Secret Service if you had one. If one of your kids got shot, you'd declare it an act of terrorism, and the streets would run red with blood, like they do in Pakistan when you send your drones out to bomb the **** out of little brown people.
Now, this isn’t to say that the African American community is naïve about the fact that African American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system; that they’re disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence. It’s not to make excuses for that fact — although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context. They understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.
Says the Harvard educated guy who was born to a rich family, and doesn't know the first thing about the "poverty and dysfunction" of the poor black community.
Now, the question for me at least, and I think for a lot of folks, is where do we take this? How do we learn some lessons from this and move in a positive direction?
First off, let's take a moment to realize that Zimmerman isn't white. That would take a lot of confusion out of the topic. second, realize what's good for the goose is good for the gander. You people call it a miscarriage of justice, I think that's funny, because the same people didn't give a damn that OJ Simpson got away with murdering his ex wife, and her jewish boyfriend. I don't recall any statements made by any president about how this effects the jewish community, and their deep rooted fears based on a violent history against them, or how this effects the lives of battered women who come from abusive homes and relationships, which is another long standing tradition the world over.
Number one, precisely because law enforcement is often determined at the state and local level, I think it would be productive for the Justice Department, governors, mayors to work with law enforcement about training at the state and local levels in order to reduce the kind of mistrust in the system that sometimes currently exists.
Why? Crime comes out of poor black communities, not because they're black, but because they're poor (something you, Mr. President, don't know **** about). It doesn't help that they view selling drugs as a way to "get out the ghetto", because they haven't learned any other way. The government could change this attitude through the schools, local government could get involved by helping these people find jobs. Even open up government positions for them, but no, that's too hard. Let's just keep blaming the ****ing cops because they're an easy target that everyone loves to hate. That's just ****ing brimming with integrity and brilliance Mr. President.
Along the same lines, I think it would be useful for us to examine some state and local laws to see if it — if they are designed in such a way that they may encourage the kinds of altercations and confrontations and tragedies that we saw in the Florida case, rather than diffuse potential altercations.
Encourage? The only people encouraging these kinds of altercations are the government suits who keep these people in a state of poverty, giving them enough fish to survive the day, but never teaching them how to go out and catch the ****ing fish. You're extremely successful Mr Obama, maybe you care to relay how you did it to these people you claim to care about so deeply. Help them out with knowledge, instead of manipulation.
I’m not naive about the prospects of some grand, new federal program. I’m not sure that that’s what we’re talking about here
Everybody knows that's what you're talking about, and everybody knows that's the direction you're going to try to take this.
And then, finally, I think it’s going to be important for all of us to do some soul-searching. There has been talk about should we convene a conversation on race.
This sounds familiar...
And those of us in authority should be doing everything we can to encourage the better angels of our nature, as opposed to using these episodes to heighten divisions.
This gets the lolwut pear:
Because this is one huge divisive turd. Here's the
full text of this speech.