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During his conversation with Marc Maron, Barack Obama took a step back from the specifics of what we're dealing with these days and gave...
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I've read the entire suit Disney filed against DeSantis - which you can find here . One of the most notable things is that it is written... -
On Monday DeSantis held a press conference to announce the vengeance he seeks after the Mouse House pulled a fast one and basically stripped... -
One of my least favorite political commentators is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report. Her appearance on the PBS News Hour on Tuesday r...
Absolutely. Now, if we look through some of the photos of him as a child (I don't have many, but I'll take a look)
ReplyDeleteHis comment is eternal ... it's who he is and how he reaches our depths.
I would not doubt that PBO got the "talk" from someone when he came to the mainland to go to college.
ReplyDeleteHe talked about trying to get a cab in NYC! He knows personally what happened to Trayvon and he knows personally that were he not President and had a son, Trayvon could have been his son. He knows!!!
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Yup.
ReplyDeleteWhen Trayvon's story first broke, I thought, "this kid could've been a future president. Something like this could have snuffed out Barack Obama, Jr.'s life when he was a teenager."
And of course, President Obama's statement was perfect: it held the implicit painful and obvious truth every black parent in America lives with every day. I know his statement jarred a lot of white consciences -- and that's good. That means Trayvon's life is broadly being seen as having value -- something of a break from the usual social treatment of young black lives in America. It's time for white America to see this ugly truth plainly. I guess Rox News and right-wing media will serve a useful purpose here, if only to provide an instructive stark and ugly contrast to the reality being acknowledged -- at long last -- by decent Americans.
My own grandson could be Trayvon in ten years. This has to stop!
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