On Friday, President Obama gave a personal, emotional speech about the
killing on Trayvon Martin, in which he spoke extensively on the broader
issue of race in the United States.
Obama addressed the experiences of racial profiling that are all to
common for Black men. “There are very few African-American men in this
country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were
shopping in a department store,” Obama said. “That includes me. And
there are very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience
of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of
cars. That happens to me, at least before I was a senator.”
“The African-American community is also knowledgeable that there is a
history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws,”
Obama said, “everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our
drug laws. And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people
interpret the case.
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